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Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana
Title
Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana / Abena Ampofoa Asare.
ISBN
9780812250398
0812250397
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies the documents, testimonies, and petitions gathered by Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission as a portal to an unprecedented public archive of Ghanaian political history as told by the self-described survivors of human rights abuse.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Series
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Making the NRC Archive
Human rights and Ghanaian history
Kalabule women
Family histories of political violence
The suffering of being developed
Soldier, victim, hero, survivor
Time for suffering/time for justice
The brief afterlife of Ghana's Truth Commission.
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