Textual Life. Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities, Paperback/Wendell Marsh

The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. Textual Life considers Kamara’s story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change. Publisher: Columbia University Press Author(s): Wendell Marsh Number of pages: 304 Collection: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future Publication date: 2025 Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 Cover type: Paperback / softback