ABSTRACT What has passed for historical “knowledge” about precolonial Africa and the diaspora has for centuries been “dubbed” through the lens of foreign observers. The main research findings have been shaped by the concerns of external financial backers, be they the Portuguese crown and Missionary orders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries or the colonial governments of the twentieth century. This pattern has continued into the twenty-first century. Structural Adjustment Programmes made it almost impossible for African institutions to focus on precolonial knowledge paradigms, and the process of knowledge production in this field was captured by the Global North. As the works considered in this review show, this pattern began to change with the growth of African Studies in Brazil. This review article considers the impact of these works, the different lens which they offer for precolonial Africa, and the consequences this may have for current debates on decolonizing the curriculum.

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“配音”前殖民地非洲和大西洋侨民：历史知识与全球南方

摘要几个世纪以来，外国观察者一直将有关殖民前非洲和散居国外的历史“知识”的东西称为“配音”。主要的研究发现是由外部金融支持者的关注所决定的，无论是16世纪和17世纪的葡萄牙王室和传教士命令，还是20世纪的殖民地政府。这种模式一直持续到二十一世纪。结构调整计划使非洲机构几乎不可能专注于殖民前的知识范式，全球北部抓住了这一领域的知识生产过程。正如这篇评论所考虑的作品所示，随着巴西非洲研究的发展，这种模式开始发生变化。这篇评论文章考虑了这些作品的影响，