{"id":4722,"date":"2023-12-29T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2023-12-29T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T07:56:12","slug":"the-precolonial-histories-of-all-continents-are-richly-varied-and-at-least-partly-colonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/12\/29\/the-precolonial-histories-of-all-continents-are-richly-varied-and-at-least-partly-colonial\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018precolonial\u2019 histories of all continents are richly varied and at least partly colonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-idea-of-precolonial-africa-is-vacuous-and-wrong?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=f49957234f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_12_28&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-fc476d9131-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\">the idea of \u2018precolonial Africa\u2019<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is Eurocentric, and that in versions which imply that pre-Eurocolonial Africa was simple and homogeneous it is insultingly vacuous and wrong. But Africa is not alone in being so insulted, and on the other hand many students of &#8216;precolonial Africa&#8217; as well as the similarly misnamed &#8216;precolonial America&#8217; and (to a lesser extent) &#8216;precolonial Australia&#8217; and (to a greater extent) &#8216;precolonial Asia&#8217; do indeed recognize the diversity of those cultures and histories.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I find it a bit ironic that the other side of that Eurocentric misnaming is the implication that colonialism is a uniquely European invention; as in fact all those pre-Eurocolonial histories are replete with instances of colonial and other imperialism &#8211; many of which give Eurocolonialism a substantial run for its money as being the most offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-idea-of-precolonial-africa-is-vacuous-and-wrong?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=f49957234f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_12_28&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-fc476d9131-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\">The idea of \u2018precolonial Africa\u2019 is vacuous and wrong |\u00a0 Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree that the idea of \u2018precolonial Africa\u2019\u00a0is Eurocentric, and that in versions which imply that pre-Eurocolonial Africa was simple and homogeneous it is insultingly vacuous and wrong. But Africa is not alone in being so insulted, and on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/12\/29\/the-precolonial-histories-of-all-continents-are-richly-varied-and-at-least-partly-colonial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}