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Ralph Bunche and African Studies: Reflections on the Politics of Knowledge
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African Studies Review
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April 1, 2008
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Editors' note: This article originally was presented as the Presidential Address at the African Studies Association 50th Anniversary Meeting, October 2007, New York City
"The dominant force in modern Africa is that of change." These words, penned by Ralph Bunche in his 1934 doctoral dissertation (72), prefigured the ethos of what would come to be called, by the 1950s, the new field of African studies. Bunche's thesis, written for Harvard's Department of Government, offered a comparative analysis of French colonial administration in Dahomey (a colony under French rule) and Togoland (a League of Nations Mandate administered by France). His treatment of the subject wove together debates about ...
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