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Was Saidiya Hartmann in „Lose your mother. A Journey along the Atlantic Slave route“ (2007) für Ghana schreibt, stimmt wahrscheinlich auch für Nigeria:
„I had come to Ghana too late and with too few talents. I couldn’t electrify the country or onstruct a dam or build houses or clear a road or run a television station or design an urban water system or end to the sick or improve the sanitation system or revitalize the economy or cancel the debt. No one had invited me. I was just … about as indispensable as a heater in the tropics.”
Es fällt mir schwer, dieser resignativen Betrachtung nicht zu zustimmen.
