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Reclaiming African History
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Artikel-Nr:
9781906387983
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2011
Seiten:
104
Autor:
Jacques Depelchin
Gewicht:
150 g
Format:
177x126x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jacques Depelchin is an intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency, and pro-people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo.He has taught African history at universities in Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, and the United States. He was in the Eastern Congo during the 19962002 war and participated in cease-fire negotiations."
The thought-provoking essays in this volume show that it is possible to reconnect the histories of those who have been disconnected in Africa: shack dwellers, the poor, and the dispossessed. This analysis of African history demonstrates how people have been forced into looking at their own histories through a shattered mirror, deliberately and forcefully crushed so as to render the exercise impossible, and argues that history could be written in a way that would help break the mold and free it from being a hostage, consciously and unconsciously, to European and U.S. historical intellectual frameworks. It enables a reconnection to humanity--not just for the sake of Africa, but for the sake of those who did everything to bury African history.
Introduction 1 Taking African history seriously as a pre-condition to healing humanity 2 In solidarity with Cite Soleil/Site Soley in Haiti 3 The routes and possibilities of a South-South subversive globalisation: Africa and Brazil1 4 Erosion of freedom: from Haiti to South Africa 5 Fear of emancipatory history in the DRC: from Kimpa Vita to Lumumba, to the women of Panzi 6 Hungry for a voice: the food crisis, the market, and socio-economic inequality Co-authored by Diamantino Nhamposa 7 From Africa to Haiti to Gaza - fidelity to humanity 8 Born out of genocide; born to live off genocide Afterword Index