On the African continent and on the black diaspora, there have been movements for the decolonization of knowledge, despite centuries of reiterations of pseudoscientific discourses that cele brated European white supremacy in the spaces of production and circulation of knowledge. Throughout the 20th century, different generations of researchers, students and activists mobilized intellectual undertakings with profound political impacts inside and outside universities, bringing to the fore the problem of (re)writing History in the face of racism and Eurocentrism. In this article, we discuss the ways in which research and teaching of African History have been related to practices of self-emancipation, self-management and self-representation through experiences in Brazil and South Africa.
