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Monuments and Memory in Africa Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality

Edited By John Sodiq Sanni, Madalitso Zililo Phiri Copyright 2024
182 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the... Read more

Introduction: Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality

John Sodiq Sanni & Madalito Zililo Phiri

1. The Ideology of Epistemicide

Madalitso Z. Phiri

2. Genophilia - Genosites in Cape Town

Fazil Moradi

3. Monuments and Invisibility: Reclaiming Spaces of Colonial Transcendence

John S. Sanni

4. Irreconcilable Differences: The Statue Debate and Transitional Justice Discourse

Keolebogile Mbebe

 5. Monumental Transformations and the Re-Membering of Meaning

Minka Woermann

6. (Im)possible monuments? Gukurahundi and the politics of memorialisation in Zimbabwe

Gibson Ncube

7. Colonial and Apartheid Legacy: Social, Economic and Political Inequality in South Africa

Frank A. Abumere

8. The Destruction of Historical Monuments and the Danger of Sanitising History

John S. Sanni

Biography

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.

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