African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development

by Britt Baillie

Book Overview

The richness of Africa's heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters in this volume identify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811543658
• ISBN13: 9789811543654
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"