Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa

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 ...