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and inequalities that mark the positions and struggles of scholars of Africa.
Tracing Sam’s choices and commitments over time offer however something far
richer: examples of how we might move beyond the stultifying past and open up
the possibility of disrupting and decolonizing the institutions and intellectual
frameworks surrounding the study of Africa.
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