AbstractThis article reviews three books that address the memory and commemoration of the slave trade in West Africa. The author contextualises these books in the political context of slave trade commemoration and its academic analysis. In contrast to several European countries that have publicly admitted that this trade constituted a crime against humanity, in many African countries slavery and the slave trade remain silenced. The books discussed here address this “silence”. Holsey examines the politics of commemoration amongst the coastal population of contemporary Ghana. Historically complicit in the slave trade, these populations have “forgotten” the complicity of their forebears. The books by Shaw and Argenti suggest that the hist...
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences i...
“Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West Afri...
Discussion of ‘Uncomfortable Truths. The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design’, cu...
This paper considers local memory and commemoration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in Ouidah. It ...
This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in sug...
This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in sug...
This introduction explains the principal object of this volume of Comparativ to show when, where, ho...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Ai...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is considered by many to have been a major shock to Africa, one that ...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Aid...
The African slave trade in the Antebellum South will be the focus of this paper. First the Colonial...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is considered by many to have been a major shock to Africa, one that ...
This piece has studied the basic facts of black slavery and its consequences on the African contine...
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences i...
“Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West Afri...
Discussion of ‘Uncomfortable Truths. The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design’, cu...
This paper considers local memory and commemoration of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in Ouidah. It ...
This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in sug...
This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in sug...
This introduction explains the principal object of this volume of Comparativ to show when, where, ho...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Ai...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is considered by many to have been a major shock to Africa, one that ...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Aid...
The African slave trade in the Antebellum South will be the focus of this paper. First the Colonial...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is considered by many to have been a major shock to Africa, one that ...
This piece has studied the basic facts of black slavery and its consequences on the African contine...
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences i...
“Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West Afri...
Discussion of ‘Uncomfortable Truths. The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design’, cu...