Decolonizing Heritage : Time to Repair in Senegal (9781316514535)

Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Leopold Sedar Senghor's philosophy of Negritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal's reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 292 pages
• Dimensions 152.4 x 228.6 x 19.05mm | 585.13g
• Publication date 31 Mar 2022
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition New edition
• Edition Statement New edition
• Illustrations note Worked examples or Exercises
• ISBN10 1316514536
• ISBN13 9781316514535

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