| Abstrakt: |
In this article, I discuss the fact that many victims of colonial oppression in Africa also tell retrospective stories about the 'good' sides of colonialism, such as education in mission schools, the construction of hospitals or the infrastructural development through roads and railways. Although these sources have in recent years been misused for the legitimization of colonial rule, trivialization and lies about the supposedly 'good' sides of colonialism, they are the precise means of accessing dimensions of colonial traumatization and colonialism. Ambivalent memories about colonialism are important elements of 'shared' and 'entangled' colonial histories. They can trace ideas about the violent dimension of colonial governance and the coping strategies in the memories of those affected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
