Description
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa examines the multiple and diverse manifestations of cultural heritage-based tourism in Africa from a regional, social science, and sustainability perspective.
This book delivers a comprehensive treatise on the interdependent concepts of cultural heritage and tourism. Heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism assets worldwide and lies at the foundations of tourism in many localities, including Africa. However, despite its salience, there has not been a systematic examination of Africa’s heritage resources, markets, policies, practices, successes, and challenges in a tourism framework, despite the continent’s immense heritage value. This book reviews the different types of heritages that pervade the cultural environment of Africa and comprises its vast heritagescapes. It also examines the increasing potential for the growth of heritage tourism throughout the entire continent. The contributions in this volume delve into current thinking about space and place and their effects on heritage, mobilities, globalization, colonialism and indigeneity, conflict, identity and nation-building, connections with other regions through migration and the slave trade, and a greater emphasis on the ordinary heritage of Africa, which has long been ignored by tourism scholars and industry representatives. The chapters herein are authored by Africa specialists, most being from Africa, offering a truly African perspective. The chapters are conceptually rigorous and empirically rich with examples from all regions of the African continent.
This unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at cultural heritage and tourism in Africa delivers strong value and is a vital resource for all students and researchers of tourism, cultural studies, heritage studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, and global studies.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Africa’s Heritage and Tourism
Dallen J. Timothy
Chapter 2: Intangible Heritage as a Cultural Asset for African Tourism
Moren Tibabo Stone, Lesego Senyana Stone, Goemeone Mogomotsi, and Patricia Mogomotsi
Chapter 3: Indigenous Tourism in Africa
Kokel Melubo
Chapter 4: Cultural Events and Tourism in Africa
Ikechukwu O. Ezeuduji
Chapter 5: Religious Heritage, Tourism and Pilgrimage in Africa: Historical, Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives
Ermias Kifle Gedecho and Siyabulela Nyikana
Chapter 6: The Spatial Mismatch between Cities and Heritage Tourism Sites in Africa
Gustav Visser
Chapter 7: Rural Heritage and Tourism in Africa
Joseph E. Mbaiwa and Gladys B. Siphambe
Chapter 8: Growing Agri-heritage Tourism in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Brent Lovelock, Gebeyaw Degarege and David Adeloye
Chapter 9: Culinary Traditions and Heritage Foods in Africa
Roselyne N. Okech and Dallen J. Timothy
Chapter 10: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Africa’s Epitomous Heritage Tourism
Aaron Yankholmes
Chapter 11: African Diaspora Tourism: Concepts, Issues and Prospects beyond Slavery-oriented Heritage
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong and Ishmael Mensah
Chapter 12: Industrial Heritage Tourism in Africa: Prospects and Challenges
Clinton D. van der Merwe and Dallen J. Timothy
Chapter 13: Dark Tourism and ‘Painful Pasts’ in Africa: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
Philip R. Stone
Chapter 14: Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Its Heritage Imprint
João Sarmento
Chapter 15: African Archaeology and Tourism
Liza Gijanto
Chapter 16: Natural Heritage: Wildlife and Nature Preserves in the African Tourism Landscape
Chiedza Ngonidzashe Mutanga and Edson Gandiwa
Chapter 17: Climate Change, Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa: Critical Issues and Changes
Jarkko Saarinen and Naomi Moswete
Chapter 18: Heritage Tourism in Africa: Where Do We Go from Here?
Dallen J. Timothy
