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In his book, Subalternity and Representation, John Beverley makes a compelling case for putting in the foreground our anecdotal experiences and personal narratives as worthy elements of cultural theorizing. The call to interpellate and theoretically query one’s anecdotal capital often takes me to the USA-Africa Dialogue Series, an online listserv founded and moderated by Professor Toyin Falola, the eminent African historian at the University of Texas at Austin. Already the subject of numerous academic essays and at least one doctoral dissertation and described as “a Pan-African listserv that reaches the entire world, and presents significant debates, data, news, and information about Africa, the African Diaspora, and global events as they relate to Africa,” USA Africa Dialogue arguably has become one of the most polemical online locations of Africanist knowledge production.
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Adesanmi, P. (2012). Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism, and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer’s Learning Curve. In: Okome, M.O., Vaughan, O. (eds) West African Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012005_10
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