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Title: | Collective Memory and the Stakes of Power. A Reading of Popular Zairian Historical Discourses |
Author: | Jewsiewicki, Bogumil |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 13 |
Pages: | 195-223 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | historical sources biographies (form) History and Exploration colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171542 |
Abstract: | Major part of a paper presented at the Fifth International Conference of Oral History, Barcelona, March 1985. The analysis is based on some 250 life histories collected during the national competition for the best Zairian life history, organized in Kinshasa in 1985. On the basis of fragments from these narratives and of the pictoral work of the artisan Tshibumba Kanda of Lubumbashi, the author attempts to identify Zairian collective memory. An apparent characteristic of Zairian collective memory is the explosion in a multitude of regional (or ethnic) memories on the one hand, and in strata of social memories on the other hand. Regional memories are 'political' memories which legitimate a power structure containing two components: the bureaucratic centralizing State and the so-called native administration. Notes, ref. |