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Title Paradoxes of history and memory in post-colonial Sierra Leone / edited by Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Contents Introduction / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid -- Rebellious subjects and citizens : writing subalterns into the history of Sierra Leone / Ismail Rashid -- Clapping with one hand : the search for a gendered "province of freedom" in the historiography of Sierra Leone / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley -- (re) envisioning the African diaspora : historical memory and cross-fertilization in post-colonial Sierra Leone / Nemata Blyden -- Historical memory, Pan-Africanism and national identity / Tamba M'bayo -- The Chalmers Commission and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Sierra Leone : official inquiries as historical memory / Lansana Gberie -- Decolonization and the rise of Krio separatism / Gibril Cole -- The roots of military praetorianism in Sierra Leone / Festus Cole -- History and memory in contemporary Sierra Leone : re-inscribing fragments from an Atlantic past / Ibrahim Abdullah -- History, memory and post-colonial Sierra Leone / Arthur Abraham -- Sierra Leone at fifty : confronting old problems and preparing for new challenges / Yusuf Bangura -- They hold up half the sky : prospects and challenges for Sierra Leonean women in the 21st century and beyond / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
Summary Using Sierra Leone as a case study, this book examines the nature of knowledge production and interpretation of African history since the decade of African independence. With contributions from different generations of scholars, this anthology provides critical reflections on major themes such as ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance and social conflict
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index
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Subject Collective memory -- Sierra Leone
Postcolonialism -- Sierra Leone
Historiography -- Sierra Leone
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Collective memory
Historiography
Postcolonialism
SUBJECT Sierra Leone -- History -- 21st century
Sierra Leone -- History -- 20th century
Subject Sierra Leone
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ojukutu-Macauley, Sylvia
Rashid, Ismail O. D., 1963-
LC no. 2021675791
ISBN 9780739180037
0739180037