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5 minutes convincing people that it is important to testify

Student: Mona Gallo
Supervisor: Fredérique Martin

Date :Wednesday 9th March

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Contents

  • 1-History of the Angolan independence war

  • 2-History of my mom, orphan of the Angolan war

  • 3-The importance to testify

    Assessement

    > 50 000 deaths
    >tense political climate
    >painful memories
    >Luanda = most expensive and corrupt city in the world

      Desire of emancipation from colonisation


      *15 years of fights

      *context of the Cold war and decolonisation

      *independence was declared on the 11th November 1975


      Conflicts between Portugal and pro independence movements in Angola (1961-1975)

      -preceded by 5 centuries of colonisation
      -Angola = country the most depopulated by the slave trade

      History of the angolan war of independence

      -6 years old : forced to raise colonists children

      -have to learn another language and way of life
      -adopted by the cousin of her mother, forced to move in Portugal
      -never seen her real family again

      -was born in Angola few days after Luanda uprising

      -the war took away her mother, her father, her name, identity and culture

      THE HISTORY OF MY MOM, ORPHAN OF THE ANGOLAN WAR

      Fighting everyday so that people know through her testimony what happened


      "Memory gives history a name, a feeling, a way for everybody to identify and to imagine"

      * feel soothed


      *pay homage to people

      *feel heard

      Allowed people to be at peace


      Feeling the need to testify

      Contribution of testimony to history

      *leave a testimony in the collective memory

      *a way for people to know the reality
      *add a sensitive dimension to history

      "Personal stories involve the brain more and are therefore remembered in the future than a simple statements of facts"

      Paul Zak