ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book encourages the new debates that the postcolonial turn promoted concerning questions of geography, colonialism and postcolonialism, takes a critical look at this evolving situation. It discusses empire celebration in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at Fort Jesus in Mombasa, one of the important public buildings on the continent, and a key site of the colonial expansion into East Africa. The book examines the construction of landscape and memory in Cape Verde. It explores the challenges facing tourism development in Postcolonial Kenya through the analysis of the ways in which a sample of local guides engage with tourists and with the heritage and memory of Fort Jesus, Mombasa. The book attempts to unpack meanings related with two stone monuments in Sao Tome and Principe, in West Africa. It highlights the centrality of Orientalism as a discourse that frames contemporary tourism experiences.
