This book is about how to show and tell your story from the things around you – in your living room, in your bedroom, in your kitchen and garage. Your things have stories to tell if you give them a voice. In other words the objects carry stories of your life and could represent a legacy that could be passed along. It is often the object world that is created out of the fashionable, the functional, the ornamental and the necessary items that brings forth memories of gifts, purchases, homes,...

This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building andsites, the twenty contributions see...

This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life in the twenty-first century. Here we have both personal andcritical reflections on the differe...