1st Edition

Contested Heritage in Europe and Africa Representation, Commemoration, and Memorialization of a Connected Past

Edited By Marco Zoppi Copyright 2025
258 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, and imperialism.... Read more

Preface

Valerie Higgins

 

1. Iconographies of Oppression? Material and Immaterial Legacies of Euro-African Encounters

Marco Zoppi

 

2. The Khoekhoe, Vasco da Gama and the Limits of Written History

Scott Nethersole

 

3. Style Congo: Heritage and Heresy: Reappraising Art Nouveau in Brussels

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

 

4. Looking for East Africa in Italian Newspapers. The Press Coverage of the Vandalism of Montanelli’s Statue

Marco Zoppi

 

5. Unraveling Slave Sites in Europe: Reconsidering Europe as a Temperate, Slave Minority Site and African-Diasporic Space, Through Counter-Commemoration

Chris J. Gismondi

 

6. ‘L’Archive urbaine’: How the Yataal Art Initiative Commemorates the History of French Senegal in Dakar’s Médina Neighborhood of 1914

Anna Helfer

 

7.  Rethinking Iconographies of Suffering and Hope for European Refugees in Uganda: A Case Study of Our Lady Queen of Poland Catholic Church Nyabyeya – Masindi

Jude Kateete

 

8.  Colonial Impositions, Postcolonial Dilemmas and Contemporary Dynamics of Place Naming in Nairobi, Kenya

Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita and Fawcett O. Komollo

9. Unveiling Histories: Colonial Monuments and Street Names in Namibia's Public Space

Helvi Inotila Elago-Moshell

10. Conclusions

Marco Zoppi

Biography

Marco Zoppi is an independent researcher. His works focus on Euro-African relations and European affairs, including migration and security. He has authored some 50 academic publications.