This article evaluates efforts to bring to life some museum collections in Zimbabwe. Scholars
have argued that the removal of objects from their social environments into museums …

There is a growing realisation that in response to official heritage, what Laurajane Smith has
termed Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD), indigenous communities construct and assert …

On a global scale, museums are undergoing significant changes in order to suit to the
changing environment. Sadly, Zimbabwean conventional museums are failing to adapt to …

Since time immemorial Africans had a keen interest in their cultural and natural heritage,
hence they developed methods to safeguard and preserve their unique movable and …

This essay builds on the emerging (museum) decolonizing perspectives to (i) explore the
biographical details and modes of curation and classification to which “ethnographic” 1 …

In Africa, the institution of the museum has undergone many transformative modes, emerged
and re-emerged assuming different names in pursuit of relevance. Community museums are …

One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance,
nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most …

In this paper, we present the Marange Community Museum as an empirical example of how
decoloniality can be approached within the museum practice. We argue that the Marange …

Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum
practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and …

The modes of collection, classification and representation of the 'ethnographic'object in the
colonial museum in Africa separated it from its cultural, religious and political context. In the …