'The Europeans and Americans Don't Know Africa': Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction.
In: Millennium (03058298), Jg. 50 (2022), Heft 2, S. 548-560
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In an attempt to dismiss the voices of the victims of 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya, he told me, '...you know, the Europeans and Americans don't know Africa',[11] stressing on the supposed naïveté of western researchers to easily accept narratives of (African) victimhood. "The Europeans and Americans Don't Know Africa": Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction Keywords: Research; Extraction; Violence EN Research Extraction Violence 548 560 13 04/28/22 20220101 NES 220101 'the one doing the judging may be just as guilty of the crime, if not more' -Elizabeth Dauphinee[5] On Being the "Expert" "Bombing begets pedagogy", Naeem Inayatullah writes, reflecting on the sudden American thirst for knowledge on the Afghan people and its cultural landscape, soon after the US started its 2001 bombing campaign.[6] The African predicament too, is a fertile ground for exploration, study, translation, and explanation. I We i use glossy terms such as "capacity building", "empowerment" "giving voice", yet, our local research partners are still typically confined to data collection, and despite their expertise which we rely on, their professional careers do not progress like ours.[59] This asymmetrical division of labour and exploitative practices confine African researchers and scholars to, in the words of Ndlovu-Gatsheni, "hunter-gatherers of raw data" and native informants.[60] I, as an African scholar based in the West, too, am complicit in this exploitative system. [Extracted from the article]
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'The Europeans and Americans Don't Know Africa': Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ba, Oumar |
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Zeitschrift: | Millennium (03058298), Jg. 50 (2022), Heft 2, S. 548-560 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0305-8298 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/03058298211063927 |
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