In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory, heritage, identity and conservation play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts at the local, ethnic, national and global level .

Series Editor’s Chapter 1 Reconsidering Heritage and Memory, Michael Rowlands, Ferdinand de Jong; Chapter 2 ‘Taking on a Tradition’: African Heritage and the Testimony of Memory, Beverley Butler; Chapter 3 Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in Ghana, Katharina Schramm; Chapter 4 Picturing the Past: Heritage, Photography, and the Politics of Appearance in a Yoruba City, Peter Probst; Chapter 5 Entangled Memories and Parallel Heritages in Mali, Michael Rowlands; Chapter 6 ‘Enchanting Town of Mud’: Djenné, a World Heritage Site in Mali, Charlotte Joy; Chapter 7 A Masterpiece of Masquerading: Contradictions of Conservation in Intangible Heritage, Ferdinand de Jong; Chapter 8 From a Glorious Past to the Lands of Origin: Media Consumption and Changing Narratives of Cultural Belonging in Mali, Dorothea E. Schulz; Chapter 9 Demystified Memories: The Politics of Heritage in Post-Socialist Guinea, Ramon Sarró; Chapter 10 Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating War and Peace in Sierra Leone, Paul Basu;