ABSTRACT

Managing Heritage in Africa provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date synthesis of heritage management practice in Africa, covering a broad spectrum of heritage issues such as archaeology, living traditions, sacred sites, heritage of pain (slavery), international conventions cultural landscapes, heritage in conflict areas and heritage versus development. Dealing with both intangible and tangible heritage, Managing Heritage in Africa gives an informative insight into some of the major issues and approaches to contemporary heritage management in Africa and situates the challenges facing heritage practitioners.

chapter 4|17 pages

Reorienting heritage management in southern Africa

Lessons from traditional custodianship of rock art sites in central Mozambique

chapter 5|8 pages

Traditional methods of conservation

A case study of Bafut

chapter 6|17 pages

Sites of pain and shame as heritage discourses

Case study of Shimoni slave cave in south-eastern Kenya

chapter 9|17 pages

The sacred groves in the Bight of Benin

A misunderstood heritage?

chapter 11|10 pages

Heritage management at a crossroads

The role of contract archaeology in South Africa

chapter 12|16 pages

Dammed if you do, damned if you don’t

Archaeology and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

chapter 14|16 pages

Heritage and energy development issues

A controversial complex relationship

chapter 16|16 pages

The triple development dilemma confronting historic urban areas

Mombasa Old Town and Lamu World Heritage Site

chapter 17|14 pages

Caring matters

The future of managing heritage in Africa