USA Africa Dialogue Series - Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

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Subject: Interpreting Sources of the African Past: Interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

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From: H-NET List for African History and Culture
[mailto:H-AFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Lorna Zukas
Sent: 29 September 2012 07:27
Subject: Interpreting Sources of the African Past: Interview with Paulo
Fernando de Moraes Farias

Benedetta Rossi
b.rossi@bham.ac.uk
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012

Subject: Interpreting Sources of the African Past: Interview with Paulo
Fernando de Moraes Farias

In this interview, Historian Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias discusses
major themes in African historiography, including: the development of
African Studies in Brazil in the 1960s, the research process leading to
his book 'Arabic Medieval Inscriptions From the Republic of Mali', the
relation between the Chronicles of Timbuktu and Medieval inscriptions
from today's Republic of Mali, the spread and roles of Islam in the
Sahel, and methodological and theoretical considerations on the
interpretation of African sources.

Paulo Farias talks about his view that we need to think of African
chroniclers as authors (or 'as colleagues'), and that as we use Arabic
sources to support our historical interpretations of the African past,
we should be mindful of their intellectual and ideological projects.

The video-podcast of the interview is available at:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/africa-hub/paulo-int.aspx

The Africa Hub (AHub) of the University of Birmingham (UoB) is managed
by the Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) and contains a variety of
podcasts on Africa-focused research:
Podcasts from the 2012 Cadbury Conference on South Africa in African
Studies:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/africa-hub/index.aspx
Podcasts on inter-disciplinary Africa-focused research at UoB:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/africa-hub/researching-afr
ica/index.aspx


Dr. Benedetta Rossi
Centre of West African Studies
School of History and Cultures
University of Birmingham
Arts Building
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
512 475 7224
512 475 7222 (fax)
http://www.toyinfalola.com
www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa
http://groups.google.com/group/yorubaaffairs
http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue