Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana

Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political...
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Author: Abena Ampofoa Asare
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Language: English
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Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana by Asare, Abena Ampofoa

Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana

CHF 150.74

Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana

CHF 150.74
Author: Abena Ampofoa Asare
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political violence, Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies cacophony as the most valuable and overlooked consequence of this process in Ghana. By collecting and preserving the voices of a diverse cross-section of the national population, Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission (2001-2004) created an unprecedented public archive of postindependence political history as told by the self-described victims of human rights abuse.

The collected voices in the archives of this truth commission expand Ghana's historic record by describing the state violence that seeped into the crevices of everyday life, shaping how individuals and communities survived the decades after national independence. Here, victims of violence marshal the language of international human rights to assert themselves as experts who both mourn the past and articulate the path toward future justice.

There are, however, risks as well as rewards for dredging up this survivors' history of Ghana. The revealed truth of Ghana's human rights history is the variety and dissonance of suffering voices. These conflicting and conflicted records make it plain that the pursuit of political reconciliation requires, first, reckoning with a violence that is not past but is preserved in national institutions and individual lives. By exploring the challenge of human rights testimony as both history and politics, Asare charts a new course in evaluating the success and failures of truth and reconciliation commissions in Africa and around the world.

Author: Abena Ampofoa Asare
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 07/31/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812250398


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2018

About the Author
Abena Ampofoa Asare teaches Africana studies and history at Stony Brook University.

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