Colonial heritage, memory and sustainability in Africa : challenges, opportunities and prospects

Colonial heritage, memory and sustainability in Africa : challenges, opportunities and prospects /

This book serves as a drive and medium for constructive analysis, critical thinking, and informed change in the broad area of cultural heritage studies. In Africa, how to overturn the gory effects and reverse the wholesale obnoxious and unpardonable losses suffered from the excruciating experience o...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Mubaya, Tapuwa R. (Editor), Mawere, Munyaradzi (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2016
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective.
Subjects:
Sustainable development > Africa.
Decolonization > Africa.
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Colonial heritage, memory, and sustainability in dialogue : an introduction / Munyaradzi Mawere
  • 2. Presentism, contested narratives and dissonances in Zimbabwe's liberation war heritage : the case of Joice Mujuru / Fidelis P.T. Duri
  • 3. Memorial heritage as fountain of peace and justice in Africa : the case of Ifá in Nigeria / Òkewande Olúwọle Tẹwọ́gboye
  • 4. Historic buildings, sustainability and colonial heritage in Zimbabwe / Munyaradzi Mawere & Tapuwa R. Mubaya
  • 5. Africa must get rid of colonial debris / Nkwazi Mhango
  • 6. Africa and the future of colonial past / ʻLayo Ògunlola
  • 7. The challenges of honouring female liberation war icons in Zimbabwe : some discourses about the National Heroes Acre / Ngonidzashe Marongwe & Blessed Magadzike
  • 8. When Yaa Asantewaa meets Deborah : an African and Biblical dialogue on women leadership in liberation war / Kojo Okyere
  • 9. Memorialisation of Liberation War heritage in Africa : an appraisal of some selected Zimbabwean landscapes of cultural memory in Mozambique and Zimbabwe / Tapuwa R. Mubaya, Munyaradzi Mawere & Lovemore Mandima
  • 10. Akan Asafo Company : a practical model for achieving true African liberation and sustainable development / George Anderson Jnr.
  • 11. Exploring Zimbabwe's liberation heritage : an assessment of the potential of "protected villages" as a significant heritage typology / Godhi Bvocho & Farai Mudododzi Chabata
  • 12. Cultural heritage in Ghana : a vehicle for sustainable development? / Richard Asante
  • 13. Synergy and dissonance between history and heritage : problematising heroism and the National Heroes' Acre in the context of Zimbabwe's liberation war /Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri
  • 14. The rhetoric of genocide in Africa : memory and trauma in three selected literary works / Moussa Traore.

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