11:00 - 12:30
Writing African History
Room: Muirhead – Room 121
Stream: Open Stream - II
11:00 - 11:15
Th-OSII-07 Writing African History-P-001
Memorializing Struggle: Dynamics of Memory, Space and Power in Post-Liberation Africa
Jonathan Fisher1, Stephanie Cawood2
1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
11:15 - 11:30
Th-OSII-07 Writing African History-P-002
An “Authentic” past? Writing history in Mobutu’s Zaire, 1970-1990
Benoit Henriet
African Studies Center, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
11:30 - 11:45
Th-OSII-07 Writing African History-P-003
Writing women back into Rwandan history: The life of Nyiramuzungu, c. 1915 to present
Erin Jessee
Modern History, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom