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Depelchin's thought-provoking essays show that through African histories it is possible to reconnect to all the histories of those who have been disconnected: shackdwellers, the poor, the dispossessed. His analysis of African history demonstrates how peoples have been forced into looking at their own histories through a shattered mirror, deliberately and forcefully crushed so as to render the exercise impossible. But, Depelchin says, history could be written in a way that would help break the mould and free it from being hostage, consciously and unconsciously, to European and US historical intellectual frameworks. Reclaiming African history enables a reconnection to humanity - not just for the sake of Africa, but for the sake of those who did everything to bury African history.

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Dr Jacques Depelchin is an intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and pro-people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was educated at Lovanium University in Kinshasa, the University of London, Johns Hopkins University in Italy, and Stanford University. He has taught African history at universities in DR Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania and the US. He was in the Eastern Congo during the 1996-2002 war and participated in cease-fire negotiations.

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