Decolonizing Heritage:Time to Repair in Senegal

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de Jong, Ferdinand (2022) Decolonizing Heritage:Time to Repair in Senegal. International African Library . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316514535

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Abstract

Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal’s decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Léopold Sédar Senghor’s philosophy of Négritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal’s reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time..

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: cultural heritage,decolonization,senegal,africa,repair,museums,memory,time,arts and humanities(all),social sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Beyond Materiality
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Centre for African Art and Archaeology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2021 00:56
Last Modified: 25 Nov 2025 12:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79567
DOI: 10.1017/9781009086189

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