Voyaging on the mists of memory: M.G. Vassanji and the Asian question in East Africa

Abstract

History comes to us not as raw, bleeding facts but in textual production, in narratives woven by desire (for truth) and a will (for power). What are transcribed and translated are traces, residues, shadows and echoes ... there is no obvious clarity to be narrated but rather a continual sorting through the debris of time.