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Ex Africa: an Africanist's Intellectual Autobiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

L. H. Gann
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Scholarly concern with Africa is of ancient origin. But modern African studies in departments at major universities date only from the aftermath of World War II. As I approach the age of seventy, I find myself a member of the diminishing group of scholars that helped to create this particular field, as well as also belonging to the last generation which, at one time, wished to serve the British Empire. An intellectual autobiography is not a confession. But this brief account does seek to delineate those forces which shaped my career as an Africanist during the last 40 years.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 477 - 498
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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