It has been over forty years since Angolan independence and yet Angolans have not had
many public opportunities to reflect on the past. The end of the country's civil war was …

At the end of his monumental work Lieux de mémoire, Pierre Nora finds himself baffled by
the paradox that the critical work of counter-memory has been overtaken by the obsession …

“I did history at school, but that was events, not the real things in Mantsoba's
prophesies”.[David Coplan 2002] During the recent past poststructuralist and postmodernist …

Just as stories about the past are constructed in particular ways, so too are silences about
historical events. Silences about what happened in the past are catalysed by a range of …

For some time, historians and anthropologists have been collaborating on the excavation of
Africa's history through the analysis of transcriptions of unwritten sources. A major obstacle …

During the 1970s and 1980s a rich seam of revisionist scholarship emerged in South African
historiography out of a radical critique of pre-existing discourses. The article traces the …

In broad outline, the failed coup attempt initiated by the MPLA figure Nito Alves in Luanda on
27 May 1977 and its aftermath are well-documented events. Alves had spent the last eight …

Post-apartheid South Africa has been lauded internationally for its determination to make a
future through a dealing with oppressive pasts. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission …