Historical Memory In Africa

Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110655315

Get Book

The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes Pdf

Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.

Author : Mamadou Diawara,Bernard C. Lategan,Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1845456521

Get Book

Historical Memory in Africa by Mamadou Diawara,Bernard C. Lategan,Jörn Rüsen Pdf

A vast amount of literature--both scholarly and popular--now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of memory and hence the need to develop the ability to 'remember with the future in mind'. Historical memory in an African context provides a rich kaleidoscope of the diverse experiences and perspectives--and yet there are recurring themes and similar conclusions, connecting it to a global dialogue to which it has much to contribute, but from which it also has much to receive.

Author : Mamadou Diawara,Bernard Lategan,Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458379

Get Book

Historical Memory in Africa by Mamadou Diawara,Bernard Lategan,Jörn Rüsen Pdf

A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of memory and hence the need to develop the ability to 'remember with the future in mind'. Historical memory in an African context provides a rich kaleidoscope of the diverse experiences and perspectives-and yet there are recurring themes and similar conclusions, connecting it to a global dialogue to which it has much to contribute, but from which it also has much to receive.

Author : Anna Maerker,Simon Sleight,Adam Sutcliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351055567

Get Book

History, Memory and Public Life by Anna Maerker,Simon Sleight,Adam Sutcliffe Pdf

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past. Divided into two parts, the book addresses both the theoretical and applied aspects of historical memory studies. ‘Approaches to history and memory‘ introduces key methodological and theoretical issues within the field, such as postcolonialism, sites of memory, myths of national origins, and questions raised by memorialisation and museum presentation. ‘Difficult pasts‘ looks at history and memory in practice through a range of case studies on contested, complex or traumatic memories, including the Northern Ireland Troubles, post-apartheid South Africa and the Holocaust. Examining the intersection between history and memory from a wide range of perspectives, and supported by guidance on further reading and online resources, this book is ideal for students of history as well as those working within the broad interdisciplinary field of memory studies.

Author : Annie E. Coombes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0822330725

Get Book

History After Apartheid by Annie E. Coombes Pdf

DIVHow should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks./div

Author : Dmitri M. Bondarenko,Marina L. Butovskaya
Publisher : Meabooks Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988391180

Get Book

The Omnipresent Past by Dmitri M. Bondarenko,Marina L. Butovskaya Pdf

This collection of papers explores the variegated ways that the continent's rich and complex history - precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - continues to impact and sometimes to haunt the lives of contemporary Africans and persons of African descent. The volume combines phenomenological approaches that consider the ways Africans experience historical memory alongside considerations of the ways in which past modalities of power continue to structure African realities.

Author : Hans Erik Stolten
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067709066

Get Book

History Making and Present Day Politics by Hans Erik Stolten Pdf

In this collection, some of South Africa's most distinguished historians and social scientists present their views on the importance of history and heritage for the transformation of the South African society. Although popular use of history helped remove apartheid, the study of history lost status during the transition process. Some of the reasons for this, like the nature of the negotiated revolution, social demobilization, and individualization, are analyzed in this book. The combination of scholarly work with an active role in changing society has been a central concern in South African history writing. This book warns against the danger of history being caught between reconciliation, commercialization, and political correctness. Some of the articles critically examine the role of historians in ideological debates on gender, African agency, Afrikaner anti-communism, early South African socialism, and the role of the business world during late apartheid. Other contributions explore continuing controversies on the politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa, describe the implementation of new policies for history education, or investigate the use of applied history in the land restitution process and in the TRC. The authors also examine a range of new government and private initiatives in the practical use of history, including the establishment of new historical entertainment parks and the conversion of museums and heritage sites. For readers interested in nation building processes and identity politics, this book provides valuable insight.

Author : Lindiwe Lester,Sondai Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734482605

Get Book

Connections Remembered, the African Origins of Humanity and Civilization by Lindiwe Lester,Sondai Lester Pdf

The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historical hallmarks on healthy Black identity development. It is an easy-to-read, yet scientifically validated account of the remarkable accomplishments of ancient Africa and her people. This new edition emphasizes the inextricable linkage between Black self-concept and what Black people are taught through the Eurocentric curricula's expression of African Americans' historical roots. It debunks the flawed and psychically devastating view that Black people's beginnings were as dehumanized plantation slaves. It is written for adults and is concerned with augmenting the education of Black children in American schools especially during their identity-shaping formative years. The book reconnects African and African American history as one continuous narrative, not two disconnected stories; this is key to overcoming our fragmented inner selves and restoring healthy communities. Maps, charts, suggested activities and thought starters are included in each of the eight sections to better engage with the content.

Author : Ussama Makdisi,Paul A. Silverstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217989

Get Book

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa by Ussama Makdisi,Paul A. Silverstein Pdf

Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.

Author : Vijaya Teelock,Edward A. Alpers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mauritians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113010099

Get Book

History, Memory and Identity by Vijaya Teelock,Edward A. Alpers Pdf

Author : Andrew Apter,Lauren Derby
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443817905

Get Book

Activating the Past by Andrew Apter,Lauren Derby Pdf

Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in “fetishized” forms of power and value. Although memories of the slave trade are rarely acknowledged in West Africa and the Americas, they have retreated, so to speak, within ritual associations as restricted, repressed, even secret histories that are activated during public festivals and through different styles of spirit possession. In West Africa, our focus on selected port cities along the coast extends into the hinterlands, where slave raiding occurred but is poorly documented and rarely acknowledged. In the Caribbean, regional contrasts between coastal and hinterland communities relate figures of the jíbaro, the indio and the caboclo to their ritual representations in Santería, Vodou, and Candomblé. Highlighting the spatial association of memories with shrines and the ritual “condensation” of regional geographies, we locate local spirits and domestic terrains within co-extensive Atlantic horizons. The volume brings together leading scholars of the African Diaspora who not only explore these ritual archives for significant echoes of the past, but also illuminate a subaltern historiography embedded within Atlantic cultural systems.

Author : Ramon A. Fonkoué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 1621964825

Get Book

Nation Without Narration by Ramon A. Fonkoué Pdf

"This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. It extends the postcolonial critique inaugurated by Homi Bhabha's Nation and Narration into twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa. It also reframes the question of modernity and development in this context, suggesting an approach with bearing on people's lived experience. This study draws from a diversity of fields-political science, literature, history, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies-to demonstrate the limitations of a philosophy of nation building that turned into state consolidation. It is a timely study on Cameroon's currently volatile situation that is applicable to other postcolonial contexts, in Africa and elsewhere"--

Author : Max Mojapelo
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781920299286

Get Book

Beyond Memory by Max Mojapelo Pdf

South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Author : Sarah Nuttall,Carli Coetzee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045630418

Get Book

Negotiating the Past by Sarah Nuttall,Carli Coetzee Pdf

Nations as well as individuals are in many ways the sum of their memories, which are shaped by perception as much as by events. This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid,struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and moulded in the post-apartheid era.

Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0759109656

Get Book

Historical Archaeology in Africa by Peter Ridgway Schmidt Pdf

Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.