Welcome the Diaspora: Slave Trade Heritage Tourism and the Public Memory of Slavery - Ana Lucia Araujo

Welcome the Diaspora: Slave Trade Heritage Tourism and the Public Memory of Slavery

By Ana Lucia Araujo

  • Release Date: 2010-09-22
  • Genre: Social Science

This article examines the emergence of the public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the Republic of Benin, by explaining how the heritagization of slavery was crucial for the development of a local tourism industry. The article shows that the rise of the public memory of the Atlantic slave trade in Benin is not an isolated venture and that similar initiatives were also developed in other West African countries. The article also discusses how the plural memories of slavery are articulated with the expectations of African American and Afro-Caribbean tourists, who are the main target of projects focusing on slavery cultural heritage and roots tourism. The article concludes that although slavery heritage tourism helped to place Benin among the international slavery tourist destinations, it also contributed to make visible the plural memories of slavery and to commodify African tangible and intangible heritage. L'article examine l'emergence de la memoire publique de l'esclavage et de la traite atlantique des esclaves dans la Republique du Benin, en soulignant le role crucial de la patrimonialisation de l'esclavage dans le developpement de l'industrie touristique locale. L'article montre que l'expansion de la memoire publique de la traite des esclaves au Benin ne fut pas une entreprise isolee et que des initiatives similaires furent egalement developpees dans d'autres pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest. Il discute aussi de l'articulation des memoires plurielles de l'esclavage avec les attentes des touristes afro-americains et afro-caribeens, qui constituent le public cible des projets de promotion du patrimoine culturel de la traite atlantique des esclaves et du tourisme des racines. L'article conclut que le tourisme patrimonial de l'esclavage a aide a placer le Benin au rang des destinations touristiques internationales de la traite atlantique, mais en contrepartie il a aussi contribue a mettre en evidence les memoires plurielles de l'esclavage et a transformer les patrimoines materiel et immateriel africains en objets de consommation.

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