Witnesses to the Ortuanya renaissance at UNN

H istory is a patient judge. Unlike human beings, it does not applaud easily. It distrusts excitement, ignores fashion and resists the temptation to mistake noise for significance. It listens. It compares. It remembers. Then, after weighing evidence against memory, promise against performance and aspiration against achievement, it pronounces its verdict. That perhaps explains why every civilisation has always reserved a special place for witnesses. Witnesses are the custodians of memory. They stand at the intersection of time and testimony. They see; they remember; and they speak. Their authority derives neither from eloquence nor from power but from proximity to events and fidelity to ...