{"product_id":"the-burden-of-memory-the-muse-of-forgiveness-by-wole-soyinka","title":"'The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness' by Wole Soyinka","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"638\"\u003eA compact but forceful work of political and literary reflection, drawn from Soyinka’s Du Bois lectures and concerned with memory, atrocity, reconciliation, and the moral fraudulence that often hides inside calls to “move on.”\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"638\"\u003eHe writes through Africa, negritude, reparations, truth, amnesty, and the uses of history, asking what forgiveness can mean when power wants absolution without reckoning. It is less a treatise than a sharpened intervention: essayistic, polemical, historically alert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"1153\"\u003eIt is a book about African political history and postcolonial thought, but also about literature’s relation to public memory and the problem of ethical speech after violence. Soyinka never writes like a dead academic. Even when the argument is dense, there is heat in it. This is the kind of slim serious hardback that appeals to readers of politics, theory, African literature, and intellectual history without needing to be enormous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"1153\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOxford University Press hardback, \u003cstrong data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"142\"\u003efirst edition \/ first printing, 1999\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44267887919187,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-22T164809.981.png?v=1774158500","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-burden-of-memory-the-muse-of-forgiveness-by-wole-soyinka","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}