Monuments and Memory in Africa by Sanni, John Sodiq; Phiri, Madalitso Zililo;

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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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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 colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renaming, reclassifying, and reimagining colonial identities and spaces. Movements such as

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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