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The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New)
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The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone (Hardcover, New)
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This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of
historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora
since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in
other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The
fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and
practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and,
on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and
historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even
though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to
reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences
since independence they remained, until recently, heavily
sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and
frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing
frameworks that have informed the different practices-professional
as well as popular-of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a
sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the
story of the making and unmaking of an African "nation" and its
constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from
colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and
quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the
continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline.
The contributors to this volume, who consist of different
generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra
Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own
distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research
interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation,
nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their
contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments
in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the
changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the
last fifty years of independence.
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