Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi

Coombes, Annie E.

doi:10.1080/00020184.2011.594628

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“…Second, these colonial and apartheid symbols were considered out-dated, to have persisted ‘well beyond the advent of democracy’ (Kros, 2015: 151). In fact, similar changes were experienced by most African postcolonial societies in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (Coombes, 2011; Larsen, 2013; Mbembe, 2015; Swartz, 2016). For example, Laragh Larsen (2013) has noted that the lifting of colonial rule in Nairobi (Kenya) was followed by a symbolic restitution of the cultural landscape for the ‘expression of resistance and the inscription of new voices’.…”

Section: The Changing Nature Of Statues and Monuments In Tshwanementioning

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The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

Fubah

2018

Ethnography

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This paper examines the changing nature of statues and monuments in post-apartheid South Africa with special focus on newly constructed statues and monuments at the Groenkloof Nature Reserve (GNR) in Tshwane. The paper highlights the extraordinary fascination of the African National Congress (ANC) government with statues and monuments in honour of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid icons. It demonstrates that by embarking on the construction of statues and monuments in honour of struggle icons, these icons have become the embodiment of a new iconography for South Africa. More importantly, the paper will demonstrate how the newly constructed statues, though still in line with the pre-1994 iconography, are also disruptive of the country’s cultural landscape, much to the advantage of the government.

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The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

Fubah

2018

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“…4 Second, these colonial and apartheid symbols were considered outdated because they have persisted "well beyond the advent of democracy" (Kros 2015, 151). In fact, similar changes were experienced by most African postcolonial societies in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (Coombes 2011;Larsen 2013;Swartz 2017). For example, Larsen (2013) noted that the lifting of colonial rule in Nairobi (Kenya)…”

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Exchanging Symbols: Monuments and Memorials in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Mickelson¹

2021

African Arts

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“…Digitising the photographic collection has been a way of making space for what has largely been a silenced history of Kenyan identity and struggle during the colonial period. As Coombes (2011) has noted, although many institutional public history exhibits are met with scrutiny and critique, the debates they foster are nevertheless often constructive and important. Recognising that we may encounter fraught topics and material, we nonetheless employ an approach similar to Mimi Onuoha's work, 'On Missing Datasets' (Onuoha, 2018).…”

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Re-membering Kenya: Building Library Infrastructures as Decolonial Practice

Mutonga¹,

Okune²

2022

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Box 13.3: Nairobi's libraries and archivesAlthough this chapter is featured in a collective volume focused on libraries, there are also references to archiving, because many of the libraries in Kenya also house or have housed archival collections.A crowdsourced map produced in 2019 of libraries and archives in Nairobi can be found at https://researchke.ushahidi.io/views/map. Though not comprehensive, it is a start to aggregating information about the diverse libraries in Kenya. This map contributed towards another, more comprehensive map of Nairobi public libraries and archives published by Book Bunk in 2021 (available at their website www.bookbunk.org).

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Monumental Histories: Commemorating Mau Mau with the Statue of Dedan Kimathi

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

Exchanging Symbols: Monuments and Memorials in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Re-membering Kenya: Building Library Infrastructures as Decolonial Practice

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