The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster. … The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Discuss the extent to which this applies to the experience of African people, citing evidence in support of your argument.
