Decolonizing Heritage - Time to Repair in Senegal

An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.

List of contents

Introduction: Temporalities of repair; 1. History and testimony at the house of slaves; 2. The door of no return: Framing race and reconciliation; 3. Shining lights and their shadows; 4. Prayer of emergency: Black subjects and sufi spirituality; 5. Recycling recognition: The monument as Objet Trouvé; 6. Ruins of utopia: 'Ponty' and the university of the African future; 7. The museum of black civilisations: Race, restitution, repair; Coda: Untimely Utopia; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Ferdinand De Jong is Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (2007), and, with Michael Rowlands, editor of Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (2007). He has published widely on the colonial archive and the need for its decolonization.

Product details

• Authors: Ferdinand De Jong, Ferdinand (Freie Universitat Berlin) De Jong, Ferdinand (University of East Anglia) De Jong, De Jong Ferdinand
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009087865
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0908786-5
• No. of pages: 309
• Series: The International African Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / General, African History