The TRC Report: The Politics of it All

Liberian TRC Memory and Politics: Liberia’s TRC Report (Guest Editorial) By: Lansana Gberie James Joyce was right that history is a nightmare, the African American writer James Baldwin wrote, reflecting in a somnolent Swiss village on the racial tensions in his country. “But it is a nightmare from which there is no awakening. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” The words were written about 40 years ago, and were issued out of a specific context. But they seem to have a particular resonance for post-war Liberia... Full Story

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