Ferdinand de Jong

Ferdinand de Jong (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of East Anglia where he teaches African art, anthropology, and cultural heritage. He is the author of Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (2007), and co-editor of Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (2007). De Jong has published extensively on the colonial archive and the need for its decolonization. His latest monograph Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal is published by Cambridge University Press (2022).