Eastern Africa

Projects in Eastern Africa

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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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Kikimbu: Documenting Nomadism in Central Tanzania

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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A Documentation of Gweno: subsistence and traditions among the hills of Kilimanjaro

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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A preliminary documentation of the Okiek language of Kenya

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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Documenting narrations of personal experiences of the process of initiation into manhood in Terik language of Kenya

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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