Hope in Africa? Social representations of world history and the future in six African countries

摘要: Data on social representations of world history have been collected everywhere in the except sub-Saharan Africa. Two studies using open-ended data involving university students from six African countries fill this gap. In Study 1, nominations Cape Verde and Mozambique for most important events past 1000 years were dominated by war politics, recency effects, Western-centrism tempered sociocentrism colonization independence. The first three findings replicated previous research conducted other parts world, but last pattern contrasted sharply with European data. 2 employed a novel method asking participants how they would begin narration history, then to describe major transition present. Participants frequently wrote about evolution humanity out Africa, followed as beginning, war, colonization, technology a...