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Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya (International Library of African Studies) by ANNIE E.COOMBES,LOTTE HUGHES AND KAREGA-MUNENE, Coombes, Annie E., Hughes, Lotte, Karega-Munene, Annie E. Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega-Munene, Annie E Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega-Munene, Annie E Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega Munene is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. The authors show how Kenya is facing a continuing crisis over nationhood, heritage, memory and identity, which must be

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Author

ANNIE E.COOMBES,LOTTE HUGHES AND KAREGA-MUNENE, Coombes, Annie E., Hughes, Lotte, Karega-Munene, Annie E. Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega-Munene, Annie E Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega-Munene, Annie E Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega Munene

Publisher

I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780755618989

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities