The Individual in African History - The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies

This volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history. Preceded by an introduction on the relevance of biography in history, case studies deal with methodological insights, personas living through societal transition, and biographical subjects and their discursive worlds.

About the author

Klaas van Walraven, historian at the African Studies Centre, is the author of The Yearning for Relief: A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger (Brill, 2013). He is currently working on a biography of Barthélémy Boganda.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2020
• EAN: 9789004407817
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40781-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: African Dynamics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries