Abdelmajid hannoum biography for kids
He called his work Histoire de l'Afrique blanche (History of White Africa), an unusual title, but not a new one.!
Abdelmajid Hannoum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA. He earned a Ph.D.
Interview with Abdelmajid Hannoum, Author of The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, )
Souffles: What made you write this book?
Hannoum: Having worked on colonial knowledge in the region for over two decades, the idea came naturally.
It became clear to me throughout the years that this knowledge did not really have the function of justifying conquest—power does not need justification—but it meant something more important. It was a way to figure out, and eventually to define, and create the wanted colony.
There is clearly a process of invention. However, the idea that power creates is an important theme in historical writings since the publication of the Invention of Tradition edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger.
There are books about the invention of so many geographies, such as Africa, Latin America, Hawaii, Argentina, China, Israel, France, and, of course, the Orient in the pioneering work of Edward Said, but th
