Beschreibung:
Konstanze N'Guessan, Ph.D. (1983), is senior lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz (Germany). Her research interests and publications cover memory politics, the anthropology of nationalism, the (post-)colonial history of Francophone Africa, Pentecostalism, bureaucracy, and parenting.
Histories of Independence in Côte d'Ivoire offers an in-depth ethnographic study of memory work in Côte d'Ivoire from the 1950s to the present and explores how different practices of recalling the past complement and/or contradict each other.