The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa - indeed, all the world - as he poses the question: Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries long devastations wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka examines this fundamental question as he …