Monuments and Memory in Africa

Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality
Herausgeber: Sanni, John Sodiq; Phiri, Madalitso Zililo

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and domination, from the colonial period up to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032559124
• ISBN-10: 1032559128
• Artikelnr.: 69482514

Autorenporträt

John Sodiq Sanni is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Madalitso Zililo Phiri is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Witwatersrand's South Africa United Kingdom Bilateral Chair in Political Theory (Political Studies), and A.G. Leventis visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre of African Studies, United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality
and Decoloniality 1. The Ideology of Epistemicide 2. Genophilia - Genosites
in Cape Town 3. Monuments and Invisibility Reclaiming Spaces of Colonial
Transcendence 4. Irreconcilable Differences: The Statue Debate and
Transitional Justice Discourse 5. Monumental Transformations and the
Re-Membering of Meaning 6. (Im)possible monuments? Gukurahundi and the
politics of memorialization in Zimbabwe 7. Colonial and Apartheid Legacy:
Social, Economic and Political Inequality in South Africa 8. The
Destruction of Historical Monuments and the Danger of Sanitising History