Historical memory in Africa : dealing with the past, reaching for the future in an intercultural context / edited by Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, and Jörn Rüsen.

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Other Authors: Diawara, Mamadou, Lategan, Bernard C., Rüsen, Jörn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Series:Making sense of history ; v. 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Social theory and making sense of Africa / Elisio Macamo
  • History by word of mouth : linking past and present through oral memory / Annekie Joubert
  • Historical memory and representation of new nations in Africa / Bogumil Jewsiewicki
  • Memory, history and historiography of Congo-Zaire / Justin Bisanswa
  • Remembering the past, reaching for the future : aspects of African historical memory in an international context / Mamadou Diawara
  • Remembering conflict : the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 as a case study / Albert Grundlingh
  • From public history to private enterprise : the politics of memory in the new South Africa / Patrick Harries
  • Remembering with the future in mind / Bernard Lategan
  • Holocaust experience and historical sense generation from a German perspective / Jörn Rüsen
  • Ayodhya, memory, myth : futurizing the past from an Indian perspective / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Human suffering and forgiveness : a dialogue with Kim Dae-Jung from an East Asian perspective / Han Sang-Jin
  • Remorse, forgiveness and rehumanization : stories from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
  • Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele's experiments / Eva Mozes Kor.