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Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives

Edited By Elmarie Costandius, Gera de Villiers Copyright 2023
264 Pages 20 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 20 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 20 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries’ independence. An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and assist in finding ways to address issues in other countries and continents. These often-unresolved... Read more

Foreword

Mugendi K. M'rithaa

Introduction: Originating, (re)creating and (re)futuring visual redress

Elmarie Costandius and Gera de Villiers

Section I: Theoretical perspectives on visual redress

1. Engaging in Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge production

George Sefa Dei and Sarah Brooks

2. Feminist new materialism and visual redress

Vivienne Bozalek

Section II: Visual redress in Africa

3. "Africanising" a modern art history curriculum in Nigerian universities: Development and constraints

Freeborn Otunokpaiwo Odiboh

4. Reflecting on post-apartheid heritage redress: From unsettled pasts to unsettled presents and uncertain futures

Sipokazi Madida

5. Change and stasis in the semiotic landscape of a school for young offenders in Eswatini: Towards a decolonial space

Virginia Dlamini-Akintola and Marcelyn Oostendorp

6. Visual redress at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Gera de Villiers, Elmarie Costandius and Leslie van Rooi

7. Whatever happened to Cecil?: Monuments commemorating Rhodes before and after #RhodesMustFall

Brenda Schmahmann

8. Postcolonial monuments in Bamako, Mali: Encoding heritage, history and modernity

Mary Jo Arnoldi

9. Landscapes of memory: Ake Centenary Hall and the making of Egba identity, 1934–1999

Jimoh Mufutau Oluwasegun

10. The art of (de)colonisation: Memorials, buildings and public space in Maputo around independence

Ricardo Mendonça and Lisandra Franco de Mendonça

11. The Faidherbe statue and memory making in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, 1887–2020

Kalala Ngalamulume

12. The removal of colonial names, symbols and monuments in Uganda

Rose H. Kirumira and Bamuturaki Musinguzi

13. From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: Renaming of places and streets in Zimbabwe

Excellent Chireshe and Jephias Dzimbanhete

Section III: Visual redress abroad

14. From the monument to the museum: Controversy and diversity in dealing with toxic monuments in Germany

Urte Evert

15. Reclaiming the Monument: Processes towards dismantling symbols of oppression in Richmond, Virginia

Alex Criqui

16. Dreaming of destruction: From direct action to speculative iconoclasm in Aboriginal protest, Australia, 1970–2021

Nikolas Orr

Postscript

Nike Romano

Biography

Elmarie Costandius is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Gera de Villiers is Postdoctoral Fellow for Visual Redress at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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