Gambia: ECOMIG Departure Sought Despite Rising Insecurity, Afrobarometer Finds

By Craig Billingham It was the French historian Pierre Nora who coined the term lieux de mémoire – “sites of memory”. He meant to suggest that places and objects can embody or contain personal and collective memories, and that such memories can also obtain in the intangible – in a scent or a colour, for instance. “Even an apparently