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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Hope in africa? Social representations of world history and the future in Six African Countries
International Journal of Psychology, Volume 46, No. 5, Year 2011
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Description
Data on social representations of world history have been collected everywhere in the world except sub- Saharan Africa. Two studies using open-ended data involving university students from six African countries fill this gap. In Study 1, nominations from Cape Verde and Mozambique for the most important events in world history in the past 1000 years were dominated by war and politics, recency effects, and Western-centrism tempered by African sociocentrism on colonization and independence. The first three findings replicated previous research conducted in other parts of the world, but the last pattern contrasted sharply with European data. Study 2 employed a novel method asking participants how they would begin the narration of world history, and then to describe a major transition to the present. Participants most frequently wrote about the evolution of humanity out of Africa, followed by war and then colonization as a beginning, and then replicated previous findings with war, colonization, and technology as major transitions to the present. Finally, when asked about how they foresaw the future, many participants expressed hope for peace and cooperation, especially those facing more risk of collective violence (Burundi and Congo). A colonial/liberation narrative was more predominant in the data from former Portuguese colonies (Angola, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau) than from former Belgian colonies (Burundi and Congo). © 2011 International Union of Psychological Science.
Authors & Co-Authors
Cabecinhas, Rosa
Portugal, Braga
Universidade do Minho
Liu, James H.
New Zealand, Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Licata, Laurent
Belgium, Brussels
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Klein, Olivier
Belgium, Brussels
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mendes, Júlio
Angola, Luanda
University Agostinho Neto
Feijó, João
Portugal, Lisbon
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Mozambique, Maputo
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Niyubahwe, Aline
Canada, Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke
Statistics
Citations: 21
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/00207594.2011.560268
ISSN:
00207594
e-ISSN:
1464066X
Study Design
Narrative Study
Study Approach
Qualitative
Study Locations
Angola
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Congo
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Mozambique