阿德·阿贾伊与非洲史研究

Ade Ajayi and His Research on African History

20世纪中叶,伴随着非洲国家纷纷走向独立,史学研究领域的非殖民化显得尤为重要。在此背景下,非洲第一代本土史学家应运而生,他们的主要目标是消除非洲历史中殖民主义的影响,恢复非洲历史的本来面目。尼日利亚历史学家阿德·阿贾伊就是其中的代表性人物。他是伊巴丹学派的代表人物,以非洲人的视角研究非洲历史,撰写了多部以非洲人为主体的历史著作;他强调非洲历史的延续性,认为殖民主义仅是非洲历史长河中的一个“插曲”。他的研究提升了非洲人民的民族自信心和自豪感,表现出强烈的民族主义史学思想。

At the beginning of African countries'independence in the middle of 20th century,decolonization in the field of historical research was very important.At that moment,a group of outstanding native historians have been emerging in African continent.Their main task was to clean colonial impacts on African history,and write the truth African history.Nigerian historian Ade Ajayi was one of the representatives of them.He is an important representative of the Ibadan historical school,he observed African history from the perspective of Africans,and had written a lot of African history works which African people was the mainstay.He emphasizes that the continuity of African history,and argues that colonialism was an episode in long history in African continent,which greatly enhanced the national self-confidence and pride of the people of West Africa,including the people of Nigeria,and showed strong nationalist historiography thoughts.