Charles Jaigu: "Henry Laurens Against Penitential History"

The appointment of Pap Ndiaye to the Ministry of National Education has raised many questions.

The main one: will the teaching of history experience a postcolonial turn?

We know that the new minister made a long stay in the American University, which opened it to the memory of minorities and to a decolonial history which intends not only to provincialize the West, but to make it feel guilty for its “systemic racism” .

And, whenever possible, condemn him to the maximum penalty of an inextinguishable memorial debt.

A historical fetishism of Western malfeasance is asserting itself in all directions.

However, we must distinguish between colonial narratives and histories.

Ottoman Empire, England, France, Belgium and United States followed different paths.

But it is in the United States above all that postcolonial ideology paralyzes the intellectual scene.

Everything is re-evaluated according to the "

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