African Heritage Challenges

Dr. Britt Baillie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and a founding member of the Centre for Urban Conflict Research, University of Cambridge. Prof. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and the Director of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre.

• 1.Heritage challenges: Perspectives on Contestations and Expectations from Sub-Saharan Africa and Neighbouring Regions.- 2.Needle in a Haystack? Cultural Heritage Resources and the Nature-based Environments of Southern Africa.- 3.African Cultural Heritage and Economic Development: Dancing in the Forests of Time.- 4.Heritage and/or Development - Which Way for Africa?.- 5.Mega Developments in Africa: Lessons from the Meroe Dam.- 6.Heritage and Sustainability: Challenging the Archaic Approaches to Heritage Management in the South African Context.- 7.The Antimonies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop.- 8.Transformation as Development: Southern Africa Perspectives on Capacity Building and Heritage.- 9.The Culture Bank in West Africa: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development.- 10.Exhibition Making as Aesthetic Justice: A Case of Memorial Production in Uganda.- 11.Modern Nostalgias for Sovereignty and Security: Preserving Cultural Heritage for Development in Eritrea.- 12.Epilogue-Whose Heritage, Whose Development?.