Title: Managing heritage, making peace :
Authors: Coombes, Annie E.,; Hughes, Lotte,; Karega-Munene,
Date: 2013
Publisher: I.B. Tauris,
Physical description: xviii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At this important juncture, what parts of its history, including the Mau Mau uprising, do citizens and state wish to remember and commemorate and what is best forgotten or occluded? What does heritage mean to ordinary Kenyans, and what role does it play in building nationhood and forging peace and reconciliation? Focusing on the 1990s to the present, Managing Heritage, Making Peace is a timely exploration of the ways in which Kenyans are engaging with the past in the present, including such local initiatives as the community peace museums movement, local and national monuments and other notable commemorative actions. The authors show how Kenya is facing a continuing crisis over nationhood, heritage, memory and identity, which must be resolved to achieve social cohesion and peace.
Contents: Origins and development of institutionalised heritage management in Kenya -- Object lessons : learning from the Lari Massacre(s) -- Sacred spaces, political places : the struggle for a sacred forest -- Monuments and memories : public commemorative strategies in contemporary Kenya -- The production and transmission of national history : some problems and challenges.
Subject headings (LCSH): Collective memory--Kenya.; Ethnology--Kenya.; History--eflch.; Kenya--Cultural policy.; Kenya--History--1963-