Claims about the past and the range of voices making those claims are continually changing in different societies. The past few decades have been a time of particularly vigorous public debate about the meanings of the past in many places. More people are beginning to question what has so far been codified as the dominant representations of the past. One of the core issues in the countless commentaries on the subject of contested history is the question: Whose version of history is right? If there is no one single authoritative, stable account of the past, then whose history is silenced and whose history is licensed? How does the process of silencing and licensing shape the documentation and reconstruction of historical consciousness, the construction of social identity and the power of memory culture? This presentation will focus on unraveling the contested site of negotiation between a silenced and licensed history and its implication on identity and the power of memory culture. Abdulbasit Kassim is a third-year Doctoral student pursuing a Ph.D. in Religion with a primary field in Islam and a secondary field in African Studies. His research focuses on the Intellectual History of Islam in Africa, Contemporary Islamic Movements in Africa, Postcolonial African States, African Religions, and the International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa. His first book The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State (co-edited with Michael Nwankpa) is published by Hurst Publishers and the Oxford University Press This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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