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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | A critique of South Africa Truth and Reconciliation in John Kani's 'Nothing but the truth' |
Author: | Adebiyi, Kazeem |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | Okike: an African Journal of New Writing (ISSN 0331-0566) |
Issue: | 53 |
Pages: | 89-105 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | drama truth and reconciliation commissions conflict resolution |
About person: | John Kani |
Abstract: | This paper explores the themes of truth and reconciliation in John Kani's 'Nothing but the truth', a play about rivalry and betrayal in the relationship of two brothers, set against the background of the hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Allowing for both a psychological and a political reading, the play depicts the truth as told in private and in interpersonal conflicts as (largely) reliable, the truth as told in public as unreliable and politicised, yet tolerable in the spirit of forging national unity. However, for lasting (interpersonal or interracial) reconciliation genuine truth is needed. The play advocates that interracial reconciliation, though not without problems, provides a model for national reconciliation. Reconciliation itself is based on forgiveness, which can follow after confession. Bibliogr, sum [ASC Leiden abstract] |