The role of the university in writing and teaching history in Africa in the twenty-first century
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2004
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South African Historical Journal
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University of Cape Town
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On three scores this session differed from most other sessions of the colloquium. First, in Professor Robert Addo-Fening from the University of Ghana it had a nonSouth Africanist as lead-in speaker; second, half of its panel of discussants consisted of educationalists whose primary focus was history in schools rather than history at universities; and third, the session was chaired by a ‘historian manqué’ (as he termed himself), the sociologist Professor Robin Cohen, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UCT. These features gave to discussions an unusually wide range, which helped broaden the perspectives of the South African historians who made up the bulk of those present at the colloquium.
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Phillips, H. (2004). The role of the university in writing and teaching History in Africa in the twenty-first century: centenary of the UCT History Department. South African Historical Journal, 50, 218.