March 28, 2003

Out of Africa

By DANNY POSTEL

A pioneer of African studies explains why he left the field, and provokes a firestorm of debate within it

A specter is haunting African studies -- the specter of Gavin Kitching. It's not

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that he is dead, but the Australia-based scholar

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