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Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana

Title
Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana / Abena Ampofoa Asare.
Author
Asare, Abena Ampofoa
Publication
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

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Description
xi, 243 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies the documents, testimonies, and petitions gathered by Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission as a portal to an unprecedented public archive of Ghanaian political history as told by the self-described survivors of human rights abuse.
Series Statement
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Uniform Title
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-231) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Making the NRC Archive -- Human rights and Ghanaian history -- Kalabule women -- Family histories of political violence -- The suffering of being developed -- Soldier, victim, hero, survivor -- Time for suffering/time for justice -- Conclusion : the brief afterlife of Ghana's Truth Commission.
Call Number
Sc E 18-1082
ISBN
  • 9780812250398
  • 0812250397
LCCN
  • 2017058290
  • 40028371295
  • 40028370091
OCLC
1019842569
Author
Asare, Abena Ampofoa, author.
Title
Truth without reconciliation : a human rights history of Ghana / Abena Ampofoa Asare.
Publisher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-231) and index.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological Term
1979-2001
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40028371295
40028370091
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-1082
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