Thoughts about the History of Africa

Abstract

The aim of this review is to point out some theoretical debates and methodological approaches on the History writing , with major interest in the writing of the History of Africa. With political, cultural and economic dimensions, the social dynamics through the past were multiple, but they are constantly involved in the interests manifested within the present itself. From this practice, it becomes possible to think over on the roles assumed by individuals guided by individual and collective interests, with an active and transforming participation in the surrounding realities, at the same time that specific discomforts of the society in which historical concerns are developed emerge. Some works were visited that help to take note of the discussion in parallel with its applicability, by relying on constructive approaches to analysis that encompass historical subjects who for a time were relegated to the margins, or represented in a stereotyped way, above all, through the constructions linked to colonialism. In XIX century.