
Textual Life
Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities
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The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. Textual Life considers Kamaraâ s story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change.