Doing Conceptual History in Africa

<p> Employing an innovative methodological toolkit <em>Doing Conceptual History in Africa</em> provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa's historical development with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like work marriage and land take shape.</p>