Searching for Nyabongo

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Caitlin C. Monroe
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This article explores the unconventional life of Ugandan Akiki Nyabongo, an “intellectual misfit” whose career and legacy reveal some of the limitations of global intellectual history. Nyabongo led a remarkably global life: he lived and worked with George Padmore, collaborated with W. E. B. Du Bois, and introduced civil rights activist Eslanda Goode Robeson to Uganda during her trip to the African continent in 1936. He conducted research for his doctorate degree at Oxford University, and he pursued additional projects in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and numerous universities across the United States. Thus far, though, Nyabongo has remained at the margins of stories about pan-Africanism, Black internationalism, or African anti-colonialism. This article argues that conventional global frameworks—often determined by scholarly priorities and interests that originated outside the African continent—have confined Nyabongo's relevance and importance. This scholarly and international invisibility is worth correcting, in part because he remains an important figure in western Uganda. And, his importance there reveals the limitations of conventional scholarly categories and sheds light on how western Ugandans, using oral traditions and long-standing idioms of power and prestige, understood global mobility and international importance in the midst of an increasingly globally connected world.
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这篇文章探讨了乌干达人Akiki Nyabongo的非传统生活,他是一个“知识分子格格不入”的人,他的职业生涯和遗产揭示了全球知识史的一些局限性。Nyabongo过着非凡的全球生活:他与George Padmore一起生活和工作,与W.E.B.Du Bois合作,并在1936年访问非洲大陆期间将民权活动家Eslanda Goode Robeson介绍到乌干达。他在牛津大学进行了博士学位研究,并在布鲁克林植物园和美国各地的许多大学进行了其他项目。然而,到目前为止,尼亚邦戈一直处于泛非主义、黑人国际主义或非洲反殖民主义故事的边缘。这篇文章认为,传统的全球框架——通常由起源于非洲大陆以外的学术优先事项和利益决定——限制了Nyabongo的相关性和重要性。这种学术和国际上的隐形现象值得纠正,部分原因是他仍然是乌干达西部的重要人物。而且,他在那里的重要性揭示了传统学术类别的局限性,并揭示了西方乌干达人如何利用口头传统和长期以来的权力和声望习语,在日益全球化的世界中理解全球流动性和国际重要性。
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