Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins

The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid

af Nnamdi Elleh, m.fl.

Explores how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in order to shape its future. Architects, historians, artists, social anthropologists and urban planners seek answers in this book to complex and unsettling questions around heritage, ruins and remembrance.