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Christopher Prior
Christopher Prior is Associate Professor in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Southampton, UK. He has written two monographs on the histories of Britain and Britons in Africa, and the intellectual connections between Africa and Britain, including Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline (Palgrave, 2013).
Joseph Higgins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK. He has written on the intellectual histories connecting empire and Britain.
The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European powers at the end of the nineteenth century, how do the specifics of personality and contingency affect knowledge production? An obvious challenge in addressing this sort of question is the frequent lack of African-produced source material; here, we must work within the ‘archives of oppression’ and read both along and against the colonial grain in an attempt to restore African agency to this process of knowledge production.
The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European powers at the end of the nineteenth century, how do the specifics of personality and contingency affect knowledge production? An obvious challenge in addressing this sort of question is the frequent lack of African-produced source material; here, we must work within the ‘archives of oppression’ and read both along and against the colonial grain in an attempt to restore African agency to this process of knowledge production.