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 Frantz 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.
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.
Introduction: Originating, (re)creating and (re)futuring visual redress
Part I: Theoretical perspectives on visual redress
1. Engaging in Indigenous
anti-colonial knowledge production
2. Feminist new materialism and visual
redress Part II: Visual Redress in Africa
3. "Africanising" a modern art
history curriculum in Nigerian universities: Development and constraints
4.
Reflecting on post-apartheid heritage redress: From unsettled pasts to
unsettled presents and uncertain futures
5. Change and stasis in the semiotic
landscape of a school for young offenders in Eswatini: Towards a decolonial
space
6. Visual redress at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
7. Whatever
happened to Cecil?: Monuments commemorating Rhodes before and after
#RhodesMustFall
8. Postcolonial monuments in Bamako, Mali: Encoding heritage,
history and modernity
9. Landscapes of memory: Ake Centenary Hall and the
making of Egba identity, 19341999
10. The art of (de)colonisation:
Memorials, buildings and public space in Maputo around independence. 11.The
Faidherbe statue and memory making in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, 18872020
12.
The removal of colonial names, symbols and monuments in Uganda
13. From
Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: Renaming of places and streets in Zimbabwe Part III:
Visual redress abroad
14. From the monument to the museum: Controversy and
diversity in dealing with toxic monuments in Germany
15. Reclaiming the
Monument: Processes towards dismantling symbols of oppression in Richmond,
Virginia
16. Dreaming of destruction: From direct action to speculative
iconoclasm in Aboriginal protest, Australia, 19702021 Postscript
Elmarie Costandius is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Gera de Villiers is Postdoctoral Fellow for Visual Redress at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
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