The Memory Process in the Commemorations of the Dead in West African Newspapers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Public Memorialisation and the Politics of Historical Memory in Africa 1
5. I Struggles with Heritage & Historicity
6. Oral history, Closed Settings and the Formation of Narratives: A South African Example 23
7. A “Quest for Relevance”: The Memory Politics of UNESCO’s General History of Africa 47
8. II Political Commemoration & Memory
9. Remembering Mzee: The Making and Re-making of “Kenyatta Day,” 1958–2010 77
10. Southern Somalia’s “Glorious Days Are Our Nightmare”: The Performance of Political Memory and Contestations of Commemoration in Northern Somalia (Somaliland) 107
11. III Nostalgia – between Social Connection & Social Ordering
12. The Memory Process in the Commemorations of the Dead in West African Newspapers 143
13. Remembrance of Drinks Past: Wine and Absinthe in Nineteenth-century French Algeria 169
14. Epilogue
15. The Historian as Memory Practitioner 195
16. Figures 217
17. List of Contributors 219
18. Index of names 221
19. Index of places 223