Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family, by Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. 296 pp. $40 (Paperback). ISBN 978-0-253-06020-4
Abstract
In this book symposium on Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe’s Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family (Indiana University Press, 2022), the authors engage with nine distinguished Africanist colleagues. The symposium addresses, among other themes, the book’s theme of family memory as an innovative approach to African history and the opportunities and challenges of collaborative research and writing. The symposium is organized with commentary from each invited contributor, followed by a brief response from the book’s authors.
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- Article
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Through the Generations: A West African Family Story1
- Family History and the Politics of Memory
- The Complicated Story of Family, Memory and Remembering in the Yob Family
- Catholicism and the Heritagization of Traditional Religion
- Family Memory: An Innovative Approach to Ghanaian History, African Communitarianism, and Decoloniality
- Ethnographic History: An Emerging Genre
- Remembering As a Methodological Approach to Reconstructing the African Past
- Collaborative Research and Writing in a Post-Colonial World
- Making Public: The Politics of Memory and Knowledge Production
- Contested Family Memories, African History, and the Merits of Collaborative Research: Response to Comments on Imagining Futures
- Footnotes
- References
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