Download or read book Decolonizing Heritage written by Ferdinand De Jong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.