Annie E. Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London where she is also Founding Director of the Peltz Gallery. Her research focuses on colonial histories and their legacy in the present in Britain, South Africa, Kenya and Australia. She also works with contemporary artists whose work addresses these legacies. Her books include Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (Yale, 1994) and the award-winning History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa (Duke, 2003). She recently edited (with Ruth B. Phillips), Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratisation (Wiley/Blackwells, 2015).

Introduction: Annie E. Coombes and Lotte Hughes
Chapter One: Origins and Development of Institutionalized Heritage
Management in KenyA: Karega-Munene
Chapter Two: Learning from the Lari Massacre(s): An Object Lesson: Annie E. Coombes
Chapter Three: Sacred Spaces, Political Places: The Struggle for a Sacred Forest: Lotte Hughes
Chapter Four: Monuments and Memories: Public Commemorative Strategies in
Contemporary Kenya: Annie E. Coombes
Chapter Five: The Production and Transmission of National History:
Some problems and challenges: Lotte Hughes
Conclusion Lotte Hughes and Annie E. Coombes
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