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DESCRIPTION:The world is going through a moment of history wars where dissi
 dent memories and competing versions of the past are increasingly mobilize
 d as instruments of social justice movements and political negotiation. Th
 e Rhodes Must Fall and BlackLivesMatter movements\, which were occasioned 
 by the desecration and toppling of the statues and memorials associated wi
 th colonial violence\, have opened “the floodgates of historical accountab
 ility”.\n\nThis rising wave of historical reckoning not only coincides but
  also resonates with deep-seated asymmetries of history education and memo
 ries of past injustices in postcolonial Nigeria. The Nigerian version of h
 istorical reckoning is predicated on a constellation of contested\, if har
 dnosed\, narratives of precolonial injustices around indigenous slavery an
 d an Islamic Jihad\, British colonialism\, and a violent Civil War.  The f
 ailure of the Nigerian state to effectively police and harmonize these con
 tending narratives\, through what I call the history machine\, paved the w
 ay for the ascendency of counter-narratives of marginalization\, war traum
 a and genocide\, and Islamization which has frequently threatened the corp
 orate existence of the country.\n\nIn this lecture\, I argue that these na
 rratives\, as evident in historical texts\, museums\, archives\, and the p
 opular media\, reflect not only the broader tension between distinct intel
 lectual trends and political agendas in Nigeria but also the fragility of 
 a postcolonial state grappling with complex histories of injustice and com
 peting visions of historical Justice.    \n
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LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, Bronfman Building\, Room 423\, 1001
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SUMMARY:Keynote Lecture: The Politics of Erasure: Dissident Memories and th
 e Struggle for Historical Justice in Nigeria
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 litics-erasure-dissident-memories-and-struggle-historical-justice-nigeria-
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