Abstract
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For the last 60 years the positivist accounts of science and an asserted normative separation of ‘facts’ from ‘values’ have been dominant assumptions in international relations (IR) and international political economy (IPE). In contrast to such assumptions, Zubairu Wai’s Epistemologies of African conflicts unmasks the epistemic violence inherent in the positivist power/knowledge regimes and, in particular, those concerning Africa, i.e., the pejoratively labelled discipline of Africanism.