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An Open Letter to the President and Board of Directors of the Asa Concerning the Asa Response to the Genocide in Rwanda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Jacques Depelchin
Jacques Depelchin*
Affiliation:
Gainesville, Fl, USA
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When I received the July/September issue of ASA News, I had just returned from a visit to Zaire (June/July 1994), and was struggling against the current that kept me from finding the best ways to bear witness to what had happened in Burundi and Rwanda. Everything around me conspired to draw me back into the business as usual mode. With such preoccupations in my mind, my first walk through a local mall almost made me sick. I am slowly learning to understand that in the Age of the Ephemeral, attempting to interface with Memory can be as lethal as fantasizing that one could get, unscathed, through a society which puts a premium on conformity.

Type
Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 63 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1995 

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