Annie E. Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her books include the award-winning History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa (2003). Lotte Hughes is an historian of Africa and empire, with a special interest in Kenya, based at The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University. Her books include Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure (2006). Karega-Munene teaches anthropology and history at the United States International University, Nairobi. His research interests include human rights in relation to museums, dress and identity, and the construction and deconstruction of Kenyan ethnic identities.

• Introduction: Annie E. Coombes and Lotte HughesChapter One: Origins and Development of Institutionalized Heritage Management in KenyA: Karega-MuneneChapter Two: Learning from the Lari Massacre(s): An Object Lesson: Annie E. CoombesChapter Three: Sacred Spaces, Political Places: The Struggle for a Sacred Forest: Lotte HughesChapter Four: Monuments and Memories: Public Commemorative Strategies inContemporary Kenya: Annie E. CoombesChapter Five:The Production and Transmission of National History:Some problems and challenges: Lotte HughesConclusion Lotte Hughes and Annie E. CoombesSelect BibliographyIndex