The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987 Biography & Autobiography | Women ; Technology & Engineering | Marine & Naval ; Social Science | Discrimination ; Biography & Autobiography | Cultural These transnational exchanges also helped

These transnational exchanges also helped construct new ideas about

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The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer

the book shares the profound impact Africa has had on the world

The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987 Biography & Autobiography | Women ; Technology & Engineering | Marine & Naval ; Social Science | Discrimination ; Biography & Autobiography | Cultural These transnational exchanges also helpedDistinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion and critical reading of its context, characteristics, and significance.