Full Description
In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade and the wealth it generated to Bagamoyo's development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Introduction
PART I: HERITAGE-MAKING, BRANDING AND GLOBALIZATION
Chapter 1. Bagamoyo: A History of Practices, Principle and Partnership in Heritage Making
Chapter 2. Heritage-making: The 2002 International Conference
Chapter 3. Fractures in the Image of Bagamoyo: Despair or Joy?
Chapter 4. World Heritage and Globalization: The Bagamoyo Case
PART II: COMMERCE, COMPETITION AND CONSUMERISM: BAGAMOYO AND THE CARAVAN TRADE
p>Chapter 5. Entrepreneurs and Explorers from the Heart of Africa
Chapter 6. Pawned, Preyed-upon, Purchased or Punished: Slaves and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Chapter 7. Conflicts and Clashes in the Competition over the Caravan Trade on the Central Routes
Chapter 8. Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade: The Entrance to the Heart of Africa
Chapter 9. Old Bagamoyo
Chapter 10. Fluid Identities: Politics of Identity in Multicultural Bagamoyo
Chapter 11. Conspicuous Competitive Consumption and Communication by Means of Cloth
Chapter 12. Intruders and Terminators
Epilogue
References
Index
