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Some of the criticism of colonial historiography in African context were:
I was too bias. Regarded Africa was not a historical continent, only history existed in Africa had an external influences either from Middle East, Far east or Europe.
It mainly based on written sources and out of written sources there was no history. Colonial historians put little no no attention on oral sources as a sources of reconstructing history.
Also this paradigm, mainly based on guarding Europeans interests in Africa. They were busy to undermined Africa mentally and psychologically so as to accept colonial administration in their countries.
colonial historiography also engaged more on explaining cultural, geographical and social. Tried to excluded critical analysis in economic motives which was a puling factor for Europeans in Africa.
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