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Knowledge creation for Africa’s development contexts

Who benefits from knowledge produced about Africa, and how can African Studies research do more to shape the continent’s development?

Roseline Wanjiru and Cajetan Iheka · African Studies Review 66(3), 579–586 · September 2023

Abstract

This editorial continues a call to centre African agency in knowledge production about Africa. It asks who benefits from the knowledge created by African Studies scholars and how their insights influence Africa’s development, linking knowledge production to the continent’s economic and political contexts.

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