The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)

by WoleSoyinka (Author)

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  2000

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  In the face of centuries-long devastations wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? This work examines the question, illuminating the principle duty of memory to bear the record of injustice.

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  1999

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  This text - like The Open Sore - derives from the three lectures Soyinka gave at the DuBois Institute (the inaugural lectures of the Genevieve McMillan Foundation). Where The Open Sore offered a critique of the Nigerian military and its repression of human and civil rights, The Burden of Memory addresses the next logical question in a broader global context: is reconciliation between oppressor and oppressed possible?