ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the notion of what sites of collective significance in the United Kingdom can mean to people of African descent, whose ancestral lands were formerly colonised by the British Empire. Sites of pilgrimage was in 2015, speaking with a friend, writer Judah Tafari, who lamented not feeling there was anywhere in Britain that he can visit with his family that has African heritage significance that was not related to slavery. A community group from Nottingham called Slave Trade Legacies have been working together since 2015 to explore connections between Nottinghamshire and the transatlantic slave-trade. The chapter attempts to present an African-centric engagement with the British landscape through autoethnographic research, firstly through focus on a particular site and an exploration of what a body politic ownership of that space can look like, and then through a more personal embodied immersion into the landscape.
