| As pointed out by Geri Radacsi in CCSU's COURIER of May 2004, Gloria
Emeagwali, Professor of History/African Studies, at Central Connecticut
State University has long challenged what she calls “the arrogant
self-serving assumptions of the Eurocentric paradigm”—the view that
“historically the majority of the world’s countries have been passive
recipients of a so-called Western science and technology.”
In the first chapter of Africa and the Academy: Challenging Hegemonic
Discourses on Africa, Dr.Emeagwali introduces a "hostility index" - a
scale to evaluate 25 world history textbooks used in American
universities. In the final chapter of the text she reflects on the
interconnections between U.S. Foreign Policy and the Structural
Adjustment Programs deployed in African countries since the 1980s. She
challenges some of the conventional explanations.
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