The politics of heritage in Africa: economies, histories, infrastructures. By Derek R Peterson, Kodzo Gavua and Ciraj Rasool (eds).

Abstract

From text: The Politics of Heritage in Africa offers a wide-ranging analysis of how heritage has been defined in Africa and of the on-going significance of heritage work on the continent. In  presenting their project in this manner, the authors differentiate it from scholarship focused more narrowly on heritage as museum studies, and they illuminate domains outside the museum which may be understood as contributing to heritage as a form of knowledge production, including scientific disciplines and performing arts.