Eastern Africa

Projects in Eastern Africa

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Preservation of Archaeological Collections at the Livingstone Museum

This project involves archaeological collections storage upgrades and preventive conservation training for museum staff.

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Conservation of the Ruins of Kua, a Medieval Swahili Town in Tanzania

This project involves site documentation, conservation, and the development of a management plan in consultation with the local community.

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Conservation of the Late 19th-Century Aba Jiffar Palace in Jimma

This project includes urgent structural interventions and training in the conservation of wooden buildings.

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Conservation of Ethnographic Objects and Traditional Architecture at Nyamata Church in Bugesera District, Phase 2

This project continues work begun under a previous Ambassadors Fund grant to document and preserve the building and items of clothing.

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Conservation of the 11th-15th-Century Ruins of Great Zimbabwe

This project involves the preservation of the dry-stone walls and “dhaka” or clay structures.

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Documentation of Traditional Mozambican Mapiko Dance

This project involves the documentation of dances and associated objects.

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Preservation and Protection of Threatened Submerged and Terrestrial Cultural Heritage of the Global Slave Trade on Mozambique Island, Phase II

This project involves the conservation of three historically important and vulnerable shipwrecks off the Island’s eastern shore.

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Conservation of the 18th-Century Cathedral of Our Lady of Deliverance in Quelimane

This project involves the documentation, conservation, and adaptive reuse of the site.

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Documentation and Grammatical Description of Komo

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. Grantees create mult…

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