Returning to a place where one has never been: Afro-diasporic tourism in Dakar, Senegal
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Afro-diasporic tourism, Dakar, Gorée Island, return voyagesAbstract
As a pre-fieldwork approach in the context of the doctoral research “Return and Future in Afro-diasporic and African tourism in Dakar, Senegal”, I prepared this bibliographic and photographic essay from photographs posted public on Instagram by tourists visiting the Senegalese capital. I sought to correlate authors who have contributed to the research theoretical scope with key concepts and possible materializations in the images. The text addresses Afro-diasporic tourism as return voyages and elaborates on some of the most visited places in Dacar, such as the Island of Gorée, the Slave House and its door of no return, as well as the African Renaissance Monument. The bibliographic discussion also evaluates how the analyzed photographs allow reflections towards this research hypothesis: that Afro-diaporic tourism is also a form of building communalities and disrupting historical silencing in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora.
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