Can We Believe the Stories about Biko? Oral Sources, Meaning, and Emotion in South African Struggle History

Hadfield, Leslie Anne

doi:10.1017/hia.2014.24

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“…I was interested both in information about what actually happened in the past as well as how these nurses remembered their own histories. My interest in this history was sparked by the prevalence of documents in local government archives and an interview I conducted with Nontsikelelo Biko and Zotshi Mcako while exploring the history of Black Consciousness health initiatives in the 1970s (Hadfield 2016). At the end of our interview, Biko and…”

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“…Giving adequate weight to interview participants or people in the communities where research is conducted may be difficult for some who see doing so as contrary to scholarly standards. Yet, as others have argued, those scholarly practices may also take us too far from the lived experience or the legitimate interpretation of the community (Girdharry 2021:248; Mahuika 2019; Hadfield 2015; Ogot 2001; Witz, Minkley, & Rassool 2017). For example, Katherine Borland wrote of the conflicts she and her grandmother had after Borland interpreted her grandmother’s experience going to an American horse race as a young woman through a feminist framework.…”

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Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interview Participants in the Interpretation Process in South Africa

Hadfield¹

2023

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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The African Studies community has reinvigorated discussions about the racial and power dynamics of the field in the past few years. A core question has been how to Africanize knowledge production. Hadfield’s practical example as a white American historian involving Black South African oral history interview participants in different stages of the research process shows that successfully including interview participants in the interpretation stage requires clarity and transparency throughout. If meaningful dialogue is employed and human connections prioritized, the result should be a more accurate and inclusive process that satisfies all, even if scholars and participants disagree.

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