Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana

by Abena Ampofoa Asare

Book Overview

Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political violence, Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies cacophony as the most valuable and overlooked consequence of this process in Ghana. By collecting and preserving the voices of a diverse cross-section of the national population, Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission (2001-2004) created an unprecedented public archive of postindependence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812250397
• ISBN13: 9780812250398
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"