Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

CHAPTER 1: Introduction. Mass atrocities, memory and cultural representations in the Global South - Lungile A. Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu and Shepherd Mpofu.- CHAPTER 2: Decolonizing memory studies - Lungile Augustine Tshuma.- CHAPTER 3: The Cold War politics and the dynamics of conflicts in the Global South - Mphathisi Ndlovu and Lungile A. Tshuma.- CHAPTER 4: Resisting oblivion and memory: The destruction of Gukurahundi memorial plaques in Zimbabwe - Shepherd Mpofu and Siphosami Malunga, Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and a human rights lawyer.- CHAPTER 5: A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death and the Spectrality of Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico - Pedro J Gonzalez Corona, PhD, Assistant Professor  - Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.- CHAPTER 6: Memories of Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Case of Nsukka Igbo - Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.- CHAPTER 7: Memoricide, Apologias, and Representation: Centring Rwanda’s ‘Double Genocide’ Discourse in the Present Tense - Nick Mdika Tembo, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Malawi.- CHAPTER 8: Fiction literary texts as sites of alternative memory and archive making. By Gibson Ncube, PhD, Lecturer at Stellenbosch University and Yemurai Gwatirisa, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe.- CHAPTER 9: “Carving their place in history”: Reconstructing Public Memories of Colonial Struggle through Women’s Writing. By Asante Lucy Mtenje, PhD, Associate Professor at University of Malawi.- CHAPTER 10: Genocide, memory work and the falsehood of human rights in postapartheid South Africa - Khanyile Mlotshwa, PhD, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) Global Scholarly Dialogue Programme research fellow.- CHAPTER 11: ‘Witnessing’ and ‘postmemories’ in Gukurahundi Documentary Films: A case study of The Children of the Genocide (2021) - Mphathisi Ndlovu.- CHAPTER 12: Exploring the representation of genocidal rape in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007): A gendered perspective - Blessed Ngwenya, PhD, Research Associate at the University of South Africa, and Mcebisi Ngwenya, Independent Researcher.- CHAPTER 13: The constructions of the Homoine massacre in Mozambican mainstream newspapers - Isaias Carlos Fuel, PhD candidate at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,  Alexandre Dinis Zavala, PhD, Lecturer at Escola Superior de Journalismo, Mozambique  and Carlos Vitannisso, lecturer at Escola Superior de Journalismo, Mozambique.- CHAPTER 14: On memory-making: Truth telling, reconciliation and peacebuilding in Zimbabwe -  Darlington Tshuma, policy analyst and governance specialist/2021 Africa Policy Fellow of the School of Transnational Governance (STG) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and Talent Moyo, Lecturer at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.