African Studies Now: Critical Approaches to Racialization and Identity Politics in Francophone Contexts

This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium. It details new trends, approaches, and theoretical frameworks that have the potential to shape the future of the discipline. Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, this collection explores methods and approaches being developed across the humanities and social sciences for decolonizing knowledge, facilitating knowledge transfer, and addressing perceived gaps between theory and practical emergencies. For its broad coverage of a broad interdisciplinary field, as well as for its in-depth insights into the latest developments within the field as a whole, African Studies Now is a must-have for researchers and students of African studies, global development, indigenous studies, and related fields and disciplines.

Eric Tsimi is Associate Professor of Francophone African Studies at Northwestern University.

Andrea Behrends is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, where she serves as the Head of the Institute of Anthropology.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor of History and holder of Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Pluralistic Societies: Epistemic Pluralism and Ecologies of Knowledges at the University of Calgary in Canada. He previously held the Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.