Revolution Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa

<p>This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government’s attempts to revise the country's troubled postcolonial past with a view to negotiating the political challenges posed by the present. In doing so she lays bare the path-dependence of memory practices while tracing their divergent trajectories shifting meanings and varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance. </p><p>Central themes include: </p><ul> <li>the interplay between past and present</li> <li>the dialectic between remembering and forgetting</li> <li>the dynamics between popular and official memory discourses</li> <li>the politics of acknowledgement.</li> </ul><p>Dinerman’s original analysis is essential reading for students of modern Africa the sociology of memory Third World politics and post-conflict societies.</p>