Round Table Discussion
Friday, 5 June, 14:30-16:30
Room: HS 8

Organiser: International Africa Institute

In a recent article in Africa, Terence Ranger signalled an affinity between scholarly works on the occult and popular Western ideas about Africa as backward and superstitious. This has evoked a critical rejoinder. Is invoking the category of the occult unavoidable? What is the politics of use of this category?

Chair
Karin Barber

Discussants
Filip de Boeck
Peter Geschiere
Gerrie Ter Haar & Stephen Ellis
Birgit Meyer
Isak Niehaus