Notions of Nation in Nairobi's Nyayo-Era Monuments

Larsen, Laragh

doi:10.1080/00020184.2011.594635

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“…Monuments, museums, languages, landscapes, official history, revisited traditions were meant to serve centralised nation building -in spite of obvious contradictions and inconsistency between discourses and implementation (e.g. Gaugue 1997;Coombes 2011;Larsen 2011;K-Mũnene 2011;Coombes, Hughes and K-Mũnene 2014;Longair 2015).…”

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Heritage and memory in East Africa today: a review of recent developments in cultural heritage research and memory studies

Fouéré

Hughes

2015

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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This article argues that the broadening over time of definitions of heritage has had strong implications for researchers working in East Africa today. Moving away from material preservationist issues of concern to governments and international heritage bodies, most scholars have recently focused their research on the entanglement of heritage with memory, politics, identity, and social healing processes. They also increasingly investigate the growing agency and centrality of civil society stakeholders, as well as the negotiation of power and authority between the different levels -local, national, international -involved in heritage making and heritage promotion. Focusing on the case of slavery and the slave trade, the rise of civil society engagement, and the contestations that continue to swirl around the commemoration of liberation heroes, the article depicts how heritage and memory have become a site of struggle -symbolically, ethically and emotionally charged -in today's East Africa.

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