Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities

Author/Contributor(s):	Marsh, Wendell
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	10/14/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.