The Burden of Memory considers all of Africa – indeed, all the world – as it poses the logical 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 illuminates…
