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March 1, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Colonial Guilt Prevents Understanding History

Kamel Daoud at The Financial Times reviews a report  by historian Benjamin Stora on France’s colonial war with Algeria Critical of the trend in Western academia that sees history in terms of guilty and victimhood, Stora writes:

. . . being a “victim” prevents us from seeing how the memory of colonisation is manipulated by political and economic elites in former colonies, who lay claim to the legacy of the revolution. The west sees the world through its guilt, as it once saw it through its desire for domination. Guilt may be harmless, but it prevents understanding, which is needed for both parties to move forward.

 

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Read more here:
https://www.ft.com/content/6b199d35-7fb1-4cd1-8347-8af2890e0e39

Filed Under: Article Elsewhere Tagged With: Algeria, Benjamin Stora, France, history

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