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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2019
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21 Ranging far beyond the immediate context of Iheka’s Naturalizing Africa to the conventions of scholarship more broadly, one systemic/structural problem with claims that attention to x, y, or z is “belated” (and which the work at hand promises to remedy) is precisely the politics of citation and the acknowledgement (or, more often, disregard) of previous work that has in fact been done.
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