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Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest,
where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an
open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an
insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the
medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's
grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution
comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is
barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at
survival.
This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are
debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are
interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It
traces the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry,
film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions.
The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions
across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in
post-juntas 1980s Latin America, to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in
South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and
Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous
Australia, various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human
rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth
commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and
resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across
the Global South and provided a significant template for
contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and
oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin
America, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book illuminates the
modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic
pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of human rights, popular culture and art, literature,
media, politics and history.
A wonderful collection of short stories, both traditional and
modern, by 12 authors from all across Africa. Old fables that have
been passed down through the decades sit alongside contemporary
tales, giving a stirring insight into the continent and its
storytelling tradition. The book includes maps and is boldly
illustrated by Veronique herself, giving it an authentic ethnic
feel.
This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are
debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are
interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It
traces the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry,
film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions.
The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions
across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in
post-juntas 1980s Latin America, to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in
South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and
Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous
Australia, various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human
rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth
commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and
resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across
the Global South and provided a significant template for
contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and
oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin
America, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book illuminates the
modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic
pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of human rights, popular culture and art, literature,
media, politics and history.
In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection.
And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future.
Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant and, given the pandemic, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity’s place in the world.
Grandma Nana loves all children and all children love her. She
tells them wonderful stories and poses riddles which makes them
laugh together and she knows the names of all the ancestors, and
which plants can make us well. She also has a very special doll,
unlike any the children have ever seen.
The little girl who didn't want to grow up retold by Veronique
Tadjo and illustrated by Catherine Groenewald. Little Ayanda loves
her father with all her heart. One day he goes away, and doesn't
return. She is so sad that she decides she doesn't want to grow up.
So she stays small for a long time, even when her friends tease
her. One day her mom gets sick and she changes her mind. She grows
bigger so that she can help her family. But when trouble strikes
her village, is she big and brave enough to save everyone?
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