I think we can accept toyin’s thanks for this preservation of the Marechera archive; but not without some reflection.
I hope everyone remembers the accusations against lindfors when he acquired the rights to the tutuola papers/mss, and got them for u texas. The result was a real scandale, and I think others would have to fill in the details which I do not remember quite well.
Except that lindfors came out w black marks against him.
Was it pius Adesanmi who published the account? Does anyone remember?
Now to my larger point, and question.
How is this different from the issue of the benin bronzes?
I am not interested in legal rights and acquisition, not at all. That how lord elgin justified his acquisition of the elgin marbles, for the English to play with forever and a day, despite greek pleas for the restoration. Not to mention, again, the Nigerian pleas even just to show the benin bronzes.
What do people think?
I’m maybe in a minority in being skeptical about thebritish claims of preservation of this for mankind.
That’s Anthony appiah’s argument. I don’t buy it because his equations of humanitarian judgments leaves out the power differentials.
The other question, Nigerian responsibility for the Nigerian heritage, at a time when the govt seems incapable of guaranteeing the security of that heritage—is that a convincing argument? And is it “the Nigerian govt,” or this state vs that state govt?
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
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Date: Monday 26 September 2016 at 20:32
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dambudzo Marechera Archive
With gratitude to Professor Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-Wild, the archives of our great illustrious writer is now available at https://rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/marecheraarchive/pages/home.php?login=true.
All the Marechera documents, photos, video and audio files that this dedicated professor had kept or acquired since Marechera's death, have been deposited at Humboldt University. You can see them in physical form at the Universty Library, and, digitalised, in a media repository on the university website.
We lost thing great writer too early, and too sudden, but he left us with two outstanding novels, one book of short stories, and a collection of poetry published posthumously.
Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
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