Foreword / Mugendi K. M'rithaa -- Introduction: Originating, (re)creating and (re)futuring visual redress / Elmarie Costandius and Gera de Villiers -- Engaging in Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge production / George Sefa Dei and Sarah Brooks -- Feminist new materialism and visual redress / Vivienne Bozalek -- 'Africanising' a modern art history curriculum in Nigerian universities: Development and constraints / Freeborn Otunokpaiwo Odiboh -- Reflecting on post-apartheid heritage redress: From unsettled pasts to unsettled presents and uncertain futures / Sipokazi Madida -- Change and stasis in the semiotic landscape of a school for young offenders in Eswatini: Towards a decolonial space/ Virginia Dlamini-Akintola and Marcelyn Oostendorp -- Visual redress at Stellenbosch University, South Africa / Gera de Villiers, Elmarie Costandius and Leslie van Rooi -- Whatever happened to Cecil?: Monuments commemorating Rhodes before and after #RhodesMustFall / Brenda Schmahmann -- Postcolonial monuments in Bamako, Mali: Encoding heritage, history and modernity / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Landscapes of memory: Ake Centenary Hall and the making of Egba identity, 1934-1999 / Mufutau Oluwasegun Jimoh -- The art of (de)colonisation: Memorials, buildings and public space in Maputo around independence / Ricardo MendoncI£a and Lisandra Franco de Mendoncʹa -- The Faidherbe Monument and Memory-Making in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1887-2020 / Kalala Ngalamulume -- The removal of colonial names, symbols and monuments in Uganda / Bamuturaki Musinguzi and Rose Kirumira -- From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: Renaming of places and streets in Zimbabwe / Excellent Chireshe and Jephias Dzimbanhete -- From the monument to the museum: Controversy and diversity in dealing with toxic monuments in Germany / Urte Evert -- Reclaiming the Monument: Processes towards dismantling symbols of oppression in Richmond, Virginia / Alex Criqui -- Dreaming of destruction: From direct action to speculative iconoclasm in Aboriginal protest, Australia, 1970-2021 / Nikolas Orr -- Postscript / Nike Romano.
Summary:
"Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs, and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence. An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and assist in finding ways to address issues in other countries and continents. These often-unresolved issues attract much attention, but finding ways of working through them requires a deeper and broader approach. Contributors propose an African indigenous knowledge perspective in relation to new materialism as alternative approaches to engage with visual redress and decolonisation of spaces in an African context. Authors such as Frans Fanon, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, and George Dei will be referred to regarding indigenous knowledge, decolonialisation, and Africanisation and Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Rosi Braidotti regarding new materialism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, heritage studies, African studies, and architecture"-- Provided by publisher.
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