This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book ask

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For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble, has been made the subject o

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany have received intense public attention: the Veĺ d

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