File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 39


Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 12:30:34 -0500
From: Mirembe Nantongo <NANTONGO-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: PLC: Re: postcolonial other


>>How to approach this training for a long silenced voice?
[...]
>And questions arise with 
>regard to places like Rwanda, where some analysts believe that the cause
of
>genocide is western intervention into what formerly was a stable social
>system.

Well, stable in that, before colonial administrative & security structures
were put in place what one saw was periodic war (genocide, massacre?)
followed by subjugation by one party of the other, until the next time. 
The 'stability' lay in the alternating capability of one group to subjugate
the other.

Deaun is right that post-colonial commentary *is* undergoing a training
process.  What I'm hoping that we'll eventually see is some post-colonial
commentator who is able to view the experience of being colonized as simply
another stage in the development of his/her nation, rather than as some
catastrophic interruption that derailed a trajectory originating from, and
headed seamlessly towards, perfect happiness...

Mirembe Nantongo
Washington, DC
nantongo-AT-compuserve.com


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