La mémoire au prisme du politique

Fouéré, Marie-Aude

doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.15768

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“…The notion is also often defined in comparison to the past, because they are in opposition to each other. Bringing the two notions together would mean ignoring an essential feature of memory: that is, that it is a "representation constructed from the past, and not the past itself, which is obsolete by definition" (Fouéré, 2010). Memory is therefore a mental form of a representation of the past.…”

Section: Memory Is Not the Pastmentioning

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“The memory of development? There’s no such thing!”

Brun¹,

Fortuné²

2022

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Section: Memory Is Not the Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

“The memory of development? There’s no such thing!”

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Fortuné²

2022

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“…La volonté de l'État d'assurer la survie de son monument rencontre celle d'une partie de l'opinion et de l'opposition politique d'en débusquer le « sens vide » 49 . De son côté, l'État sénégalais soumet la proposition auprès de ses pairs africains de décréter le 3 avril, jour de l'inauguration de la statue, « journée de la renaissance africaine » par l'Union africaine 50 .…”

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La monumentalisation du passé colonial et esclavagiste au Sénégal : Controverse et rejet de la renaissance africaine

Dramé¹

2012

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Le 4 avril 2010, à l’occasion du cinquantenaire de la décolonisation du Sénégal, une vingtaine de chefs d’État africains procède à l’inauguration à Dakar du monument dit de la « renaissance africaine ». Devant symboliser la mémoire de l’esclavage et du colonialisme, l’édification de ce lieu de mémoire à l’esthétique et au financement plutôt discutables et dans un contexte de marasme économique occasionne de vives contestations des populations et de l’opinion publique. Cet article aborde la question en étudiant d’abord le contenu de la presse privée et publique sénégalaise qui, entre 2008 et 2010, a été le lieu d’une vibrante controverse quant aux sens symboliques, au coût et au financement de l’oeuvre monumentale. Examinant de nombreux articles de presse, discours et débats radiotélévisés, cet article questionne d’abord la signification et le sens mémoriels que l’État du Sénégal a voulu donner au monument. Il analyse par la suite les raisons pour lesquelles la représentation symbolique et mémorielle du concept de « renaissance africaine » ne passe pas aux yeux des populations. Il éclaire ainsi les fondements religieux, politiques et éthiques du discours contestataire.To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the decolonization of Senegal, on 4 April 2010, twenty African heads of state proceeded to the inauguration of the “African renaissance” monument at Dakar. Previously symbolizing the memory of slavery and colonialism, the building of this memorial site with more questionable aesthetics and funding, and in a context of an economic slump occasioned lively disagreements of public opinion. The following article offers a textual analysis of the Senegalese press that, between 2008 and 2010, was at the centre of a lively controversy ranging from the symbolic meaning, to the cost and financing of this monumental work. Examining numerous newspaper articles, conversations and debates on broadcast radio, this article first questions the significance and the sense of commemoration that the Senegalese state wished to give the monument. The article then assesses the reasons why the symbolic and memorial representation of the concept of “African renaissance” did not work in the eyes of the public. It also sheds light on the religious, political and ethical foundations of this contested discourse

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The mnemonic transition: The rise of an anti-anticolonial memoryscape in Cape Verde

Cardina

Rodrigues

2020

Memory Studies

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This article analyses the production of an anti-anticolonial memoryscape in Cape Verde in the 1990s. We will show how this process is bound up with a mnemonic transition that accompanied the economic and political transition taking place in the country and also marked by changes occurring internationally in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the global expansion of multipartidarism. Proposing a broadening of the concept of memoryscape, we will examine the alterations produced in the public space, in the national symbols and in the valorization of events and personages that have marked the history of the archipelago. We find that they produce a mnemopolitical imaginary different from the anticolonial legitimacy that had emerged from a victorious liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism and became hegemonic immediately after independence (1975–1991).

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La mémoire au prisme du politique

Cited by 17 publications

References 33 publications

“The memory of development? There’s no such thing!”

“The memory of development? There’s no such thing!”

La monumentalisation du passé colonial et esclavagiste au Sénégal : Controverse et rejet de la renaissance africaine

The mnemonic transition: The rise of an anti-anticolonial memoryscape in Cape Verde

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