This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination.
"Eze makes fresh interrogations into our inherited engagements with Africa within a geopolitical space and re-scribes our notions of Africa - a book that is compelling, timely, and well informed." - Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India
MICHAEL ONYBUCHI EZE currently teaches postcolonial African studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany and is the Editor-in-Chief of
The African Communitarian: A Journal of African Ethics, Social and Political Thought.