REGIONAL RESOURCES

  Canadian Heritage, Canada: Canadian Heritage and its portfolio organizations play a vital role in the cultural, civic and economic life of Canadians. Arts, culture and heritage represent more than $53 billion in the Canadian economy and close to 666,500 jobs in sectors such as film and video, broadcasting, music, publishing, archives, performing arts, heritage institutions, festivals and celebrations. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage.html   Canadian Conservation Institute, Canada: The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI), a Special Operating Agency within the Department of Canadian Heritage, advances and promotes the conservation of Canada’s heritage collections through its expertise in conservation science, treatment and preventive conservation. CCI works with...

A Foundation: Natural Sciences Sector UNESCO  / Indigenous knowledge systems / Small Island Developing States, South Africa: GOING DEEPER: GAIA’S APPROACH TO SACRED NATURAL SITES & ANCESTRAL LANDS https://www.gaiafoundation.org/what-we-do/sacred-lands-and-wilderness/protecting-sacred-natural-sites/

  Nigerian cultural heritage: preservation, challenges and prospects Blessing Nonye Onyima, Nigeria: Nigeria is endowed with cultural heritages sourced from its multicultural communities. Contemporary status of most Nigerian cultural heritages (both material and non-material) is best described as endangered. This paper derives from a functionalist perspective which descriptively presents a historical, anthropological, and archaeological account of the Nigerian cultural heritage. Efforts at preserving these are obstructed with daunting challenges, particularly human activities such as trafficking/exportation of Nigerian arts, thefts and looting of museums, vandalism, iconoclasm, Christianity, civilization, commerce, change, and developmental projects…. Hence, the clarion call for...

Musée national du Mali, Mali: http://tourisme.gouv.ml/?q=fr/node/124   “Sur la piste des manuscrits de Tombouctou” Documentary, Mali: In 2012, during the jihadist occupation of northern Mali, the incredible rescue of the Timbuktu manuscripts became a symbol for the whole world. This film recounts the extraordinary epic of Malians who risked their lives to save this world heritage from the threat of armed groups and follows in the footsteps of these precious scrolls, in exile.   The Timbuktu verdict: The price of remorse, International Criminal Court (ICC), Mali : On September 27, 2016, the International Criminal Court issued a historic decision because, for the first time since its creation in 2002, the crime against the cultural heritage of mankind was firmly punished. In additi...

National Museums of Kenya, Kenya: A multi-disciplinary institution whose role is to collect, preserve, study, document and present Kenya’s past and present cultural and natural heritage. This is for the purposes of enhancing knowledge, appreciation, respect and sustainable utilization of these resources for the benefit of Kenya and the world, for now and posterity. NMK’s mutual concern for the welfare of mankind and the conservation of the biological diversity of the East African region and that of the entire planet demands success in such efforts. https://www.museums.or.ke/    The Portuguese Fort Jesus, 1593.

  Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH), Ethiopia:   A lecture about  Ethiopian Art History  by Abebaw Ayalew: 121122 Abebaw Ayalew – Ethiopian Art History Part I from INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE on Vimeo.

National Museum of Cameroon, Cameroon: Museum institutions closely linked to the affirmation of cultural identity / access and participation of citizens in culture / places for reflection, creation, dissemination, conservation and learning / crossing of museology and public artisans / collective experience. National museum is open to the public since 2015 – collections representing the wealth of the ten regions of the country – site for researchers and students as well ” Usages des TIC au Musée National du Cameroun :  https://www.cairn.info/revue-les-cahiers-du-numerique-2019-1-page-145.htm     Additional reading: Les Tikar du Cameroun Central: Ethnogenèse, culture et relations avec les peuples voisins Sous la direction de Martin Elouga,  Collection: Etudes afri...

Musée des Civilisations Noires, Senegal: Public industrial and commercial establishment (EPIC), it coordinates, implements and monitors scientific and cultural studies in matters of black civilizations. Its birth plunges its roots in the World Festival of the Negro Arts of 1966. Let us quote the Congresses of the black writers and artists respectively held in Paris in 1956 and in Rome in 1959; the wave of African independence in the 1960s, and later the wars of liberation in the 1990s. Events that also echoed the Pan-African Conferences held in London in 1900, as well as the Paris Congresses in 1919, by Dar es Salaam in 1974, from Kampala in 1994 and from Accra in 2014. http://www.mcn.sn/   Ile de Gorée – Patrimoine mondial UNESCO , Senegal: Gorée a été du XVe au XIXe siècle le ...