The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)
Wole Soyinka
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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.
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.
Wole Soyinka
Awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence."
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