How did a generation of academic geographers engage with constitutional decolonisation during the end of the British empire in Africa?
In Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998, Ruth Craggs and Hannah Neate explore how the teaching, research, administration and activism of geographers in Africa shaped the discipline and the post-colonial geopolitics of the continent.
The authors follow the professional lives of individual geographers to provide fresh insights into decolonisation in the former British Empire in Africa, drawing from extensive archival research and more than 40 oral history interviews with geographers in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and the UK.
Decolonising Geography is a must-read for any reader in the UK and Africa with an interest in the relationships between geography and decolonisation.