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Strictly speaking memory is individual as it involves individual consciousness, but sociologists insist that all memory is social. In her essay The Site of Memory, the African American writer Toni Morrison defines memories as the recollection of an image and of the feelings accompanying that picture to reconstruct the world in which her ancestor lived. This reconstruction is based on collective memory when she tries to imagine their world and the private or interior life of the people in it.
This approach on memory is in some way reflected in the work of the Ghanaian artist Cornelius Annor. …