Historical Memory in Africa

Mamadou Diawara received his PhD from Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris and is Professor at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He specializes in anthropology and African history (oral history and the history of development). Bernard C. Lategan is the founding Director of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. He studied classical languages, linguistics, literary theory, and theology at the Universities of the Free State, Stellenbosch and Kampen. Jorn Rusen was President of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut in Essen (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen) and is Professor of History and Historical Culture at the University of Witten-Herdecke.

• List of Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan and Jorn Rusen From an African Perspective Chapter 2. Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa Elisio Macamo Chapter 3. History by Word of Mouth: Linking Past and Present through Oral Memory Annekie Joubert Chapter 4. The Historical Memory and Representation of New Nations in Africa Bogumil Jewsiewicki Chapter 5. Memory, History and Historiography of Congo-Zaire Justin Bisanswa Chapter 6. Remembering the Past, Reaching for the Future Aspects of African Historical Memory in an International Context Mamadou Diawara Chapter 7. Remembering Conflict: The Centenary Commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 as a Case Study Albert Grundlingh Chapter 8. From Public History to Private Enterprise: The Politics of Memory in the New South Africa Patrick Harries Chapter 9. Remembering with the Future in Mind Bernard Lategan From an Intercultural Perspective Chapter 10. Holocaust Experience and Historical Sense Generation - a German Perspective Jorn Rusen Chapter 11. Ayodya, Memory, Myth: Futurising the Past - an Indian perspective Ranjan Gosh Chapter 12. Human Suffering and Forgiveness: A dialogue with Kim Dae Jung - an East-Asian perspective Han Sing-Jin Texts from the Praxis of Memory, Trauma, Forgiveness and Healing Chapter 13. Remorse, Forgiveness and Rehumanization: Stories from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Chapter 14. Healing from Auschwitz and Mengele's Experiments Eva Mozes Kor Notes on Contributors