African Knowledges
and the History Public*ation
Dr. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Junior Research Group Leader & Lecturer
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
University of Bayreuth
The Project
Heightened turmoil in the realm of global knowledge production has recently stimulated questions leading to research on inequalities and relationalities within the university; between universities in the “Global South” and “Global North”; as well as between experts and non-experts in a given society.
How can our understanding of knowledge production be shifted for the sake of a better future?
Latest Publication
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another.