
Academic reparation and stepping aside
Reflections from a former President of the African Studies Association (ASA), the largest African Studies association globally, on the future of the discipline.
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Jean Allman, a historian of Ghana, is a former President of the African Studies Association.

Reflections from a former President of the African Studies Association (ASA), the largest African Studies association globally, on the future of the discipline.

A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.