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TRAFO – Blog for Transregional ResearchANNUAL CONFERENCES / ARTICLES / RESEARCHAfrican Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional ResearchANNUAL CONFERENCES / ARTICLES / RESEARCHAfrican Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical CommentVON EDITORIAL BOARD · VERÖFFENTLICHT 31. JULI 2018 · AKTUALISIERT 11. APRIL 2019

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional ResearchANNUAL CONFERENCES / ARTICLES / RESEARCHAfrican Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical CommentVON EDITORIAL BOARD · VERÖFFENTLICHT 31. JULI 2018 · AKTUALISIERT 11. APRIL 2019By Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional ResearchANNUAL CONFERENCES / ARTICLES / RESEARCHAfrican Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical CommentVON EDITORIAL BOARD · VERÖFFENTLICHT 31. JULI 2018 · AKTUALISIERT 11. APRIL 2019By Ihediwa Nkemjika ChimeeAbstract

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional ResearchANNUAL CONFERENCES / ARTICLES / RESEARCHAfrican Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical CommentVON EDITORIAL BOARD · VERÖFFENTLICHT 31. JULI 2018 · AKTUALISIERT 11. APRIL 2019By Ihediwa Nkemjika ChimeeAbstractAfrican historiography has been following divisions, schemes, and sequences set by the Europeans who in the past claimed that there was no such thing as African history and that the history of Africa began with the history of the Europeans in Africa. With this mind-set, in creating what they called African History, the early Eurocentric historians periodized it in sequences as they thought fit and proper. Thus, periodization in African history tended to focus on events that coincided with the intrusive European explorers rather than events antedating them. There seems to be a lacuna in the periodization of African history, especially with respect to the continent’s past before Western contacts. The structure of African historiography had more to do with the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade than with African experiences. African history should be periodized in such a way that the multiple fragments of her past, cultures, languages, religions, philosophies, cosmology, arts, aesthetics, music, dance, warfare, architectures, farming, astrology, rituals, navigation, crafts, industries, etc. are taken into account in order to represent the peculiarities of the continent’s history. The periodization along the lines of centuries has left a lot to be methodically captured, and this has created a gap in Africa’s historiographical scholarship. The paper intends to re-examine Africa’s historiography and reveal the gaps in the periodization scheme of Africa’s history. It also makes a case for the restructuring of Africa’s historical periodization in line with aspects of Africa’s past not deeply investigated and structured in the scheme of history.