The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness /

"Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries long devastions wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate?&q...

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Main Authors: Soyinka, Wole. (Author)
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2000.
©1999
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
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Summary: "Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries long devastions wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate?"--Jacket.
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: xii, 208 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780195134285
0195134281
9780195122053
0195122054
Access: Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
Index Number: DT30
CLC: K400
Call Number: K400/S731
Contents: Reparations, truth, and reconciliation -- L.S. Senghor and Negritude: J'accuse, mais, je pardonne -- Negritude and the gods of equity.