Heritage

Essays 4

• Before the Comparison, the Comparer: Comparativity Complex Theory, Its Propositions, Method and Stakes

  Comparison is never the first act. Before anyone places two heritages side by side, a history of power has already made them comparable.…

• Returning the Bronze, Keeping the Key: Heritage as Power and the Comparativity of Restitution

  Restitution has become the conscience of the Western museum. This essay argues that it returns objects while keeping the categories that…

• Mining Scriptures: Religion, Heritage, Technology, Geopolitics, and the African World as One Field of Force

  Religion, heritage, technology, geopolitics, and Africa and its diasporas are not five subjects that occasionally meet. Read from the cre…

• In the Name of God Almighty: Scripture, Heritage, and the Authorship of Africa from Berlin to the New Scramble

  The General Act of Berlin opened with a prayer and protected missionaries by treaty. This essay argues that African geopolitics has been…