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From: Claire L Dehon
List Editor: Mel Page <pagem@MTB.und.ac.za>
Editor's Subject: AFRICA FORUM: Heritage & history: reply
Author's Subject: AFRICA FORUM: Heritage & history: reply
Date Written: 30 Oct 1998
Date Posted: Tue, 02 Nov 1998 04:30:12 -0500

             <dehoncl@ksu.edu>


The trouble with history is that it needs documents--oral or
written.  As for which one is closer to the facts, nobody can
measure it.  See studies about memory.

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