Abstract
Many scholars say, even demand, that research on Africa should be intensified and increased. Its destiny is linked to the future of Africans’ self-awareness and their radical de-alienation. However, the current direction of some projects gives cause for concern in that the fundamental question they raise is whether what drives them is science or a certain unstated but active ideology. In other words, has science become a slave to or a pseudonym for an ideology? What are the motives of researchers, and what are the structural constraints framing their discourse?
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