Du mot injuste au mot juste
Subtitle: count(er)ing costs of black holocausts, a panAfrikan approach to education.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Pan-Africanism -- History.; African diaspora -- Social aspects.; Wolof language.; Twi language.; Blacks -- Race identity.; Blacks -- Africa -- Race identity.; Antislavery movements -- History.; Slavery -- History.; Racism in language.; English language -- Slang -- Social aspects.; Race relations in literature.; Discourse analysis.; Communication.; Africa -- Politics and government.
Description: By accident or intent, commission or omission, 'the word', in recounting panAfrikan histories and the holocausts they reveal, generally masks 'the crime'. This thesis examines hidden costs of Black holocausts on panAfrikan life chances over thirty generations. It analyses texts where 'Others', overwhelmingly, have recorded and told our stories, prescribing the words with which we clothe our collective memory. This study also explores continuities within Afrikan speech and cultural expression in Europe, the Caribbean and the Americas. It reveals aspects of Afrikan culture, lost because of Black holocausts, in ancestral languages like Wolof and Twi and data from museum studies, artefacts, the arts and popular culture. Through careful reflection on panAfrikanist perspectives, this thesis (1) enhances new ways of understanding, of telling, measuring and eventually countering the costs of externally manufactured panAfrikan holocausts and (2) explores the possibilities and significance of education which draws on these panAfrikanist ways of seeing.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-01, page: 0035.

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