FOREWORD by Didier Gondola, PhD. Johns Hopkins University One question that has haunted historians for quite a while and continues to elicit much debate in scholarly circles is who gets to tell the story? Who gets to produce history? Historian Natalie Zemon Davis has articulated some provocative questions in this debate about the ownership of…
Didier Gondola, PhD
About Didier Gondola, PhD
Didier Gondola is a professor of African History at Johns Hopkins University. He earned a PhD in African History from the Universite Paris-7 Diderot in 1993. His publications include numerous articles and chapters on popular cultures (music, fashion, gambling, and memory), gender and postcolonial issues in Central Africa and the African diaspora in France. His most recent books are Tropical Cowboys: Youth Gangs, Violence, and Masculinities in Colonial Kinshasa (Indiana University Press, 2016) and Matswa vivant: Anticolonialisme et citoyennete en Afrique-Equatoriale francaise (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2021).