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Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana / Abena Ampofoa Asare.
LIBRA DT512.32 .A68 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asare, Abena Ampofoa, author.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Ghana--History.
- Human rights.
- Truth commissions--Ghana--History.
- Truth commissions.
- Reconciliation--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Reconciliation.
- Reconciliation--Political aspects.
- History.
- Ghana--Politics and government--1979-2001.
- Ghana.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- 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.
- 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
- Conclusion : the brief afterlife of Ghana's Truth Commission.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812250398
- 0812250397
- OCLC:
- 1019842569
- Publisher Number:
- 40028371295
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