Culture of Dissenting Memory

Véronique Tadjo is Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was Head of French and Francophone Studies from 2007 to 2015. She was born in Paris and grew up in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She holds a PhD in Black American Literature and Civilization from the Sorbonne Paris IV, France. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C. She was a lecturer at Abidjan University and Lagos University. She is an award-winning fiction writer, a poet and author of books for young people. She has travelled extensively in Africa, Europe and America. She now shares her time between London and Abidjan.

• 1. Reassessing South African Truth and Reconciliation: John Kani’s Missing and Performative Demands for Justice 2. The Advancement of Truth Commissions on Past Affairs Along with Democratization in Korea: My Experiences as a Commissioner in Three Different Truth Commissions 3. Memories about Truth: Journalistic Narratives, ‘True Stories’ and the Clash of Memories in Brazil’s National Truth Commission 4. Ubu and the Truth Commission: The Multiple Contexts of the TRC and Ubu 5. Black Memories of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship: The Repression of Black Dances During the 1970s and the State of Rio Truth Commission 6. ‘That’s the Bad Past We Want to Forget’: Partial Truths, Reconciliation and Memory in Namibia’s Post-Apartheid Democracy 7. Notice Well: Memory and Reparation in the Brazilian Documentary Movies about the Dictatorship 8. Literature as Witness: Failure of a TRC Following the Mass Rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina 9. The Practice of Public Apology: Australia Says Sorry to the Stolen Generations 10. The Gacaca Courts: Collective versus Personal Memory and Trauma of the Genocide in Rwanda. Postface: Truth Commissions and the Reinvention of the Past