Africa

Projects in Africa

Dessie Museum front view

Dessie Museum Renovation

This project will support the complete renovation of the Dessie Museum in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, which was destroyed during conflict in 2021.

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Ileret footprint

Insitu Preservation of 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints at Ileret, Northern Kenya: Evidence of Early Hominin Foot Morphology And Paleobiology

National Museums of Kenya will work with international partners to safeguard the globally important heritage of the 1.5-million-year-old hominin footprints found at Ileret, ne…

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Darfur opening dances Photo Gassim

Safeguarding Sudan's Living Heritage

This project will completely renovate the currently inaccessible Ethnographic Museum in central Khartoum.

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Athar Lina Heritage Climate Change: Conservation and Capacity Building

This project will oversee the protection of Yahya al-Shabih and Safiyy al-Din Jawhar.

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Kasr Kabaw Anna Leonephoto 1

Partnership for Heritage: Safeguarding Traditional Architecture and Intangible heritage of Tataouine (Tunisia) and the Nafusa mountains (Libya)

This project will document the rich and varied heritage of the indigenous Imazighen communities living in the Nafusa Mountains (Libya) and in Tataouine, Tunisia.

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EAMENA 1

EAMENA: Mitigating Conflict and Climate Change Risks Through Digital Heritage, Capacity Building, and Consolidation

This project will build upon the transformative work undertaken by the EAMENA project across the Middle East and North Africa, working with national NGOs and governments to em…

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Faza Island North Kenya Coast Photo by Nafisa Awadh used with permission

Safeguarding the cultural heritage of the Bajuni dialect of Swahili, oral traditions and poetry

This project will record and document the Bajuni dialect spoken by more than 15,000 people.

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Fadi Jabo Iraq

Middle East People’s Culture Conservation Collective

This project will empower young people across Syria, Iraq and Egypt to protect the heritage of marginalised religious, ethnic and linguistic minorities within their own commun…

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Uganda

Withstanding change: heritage amongst climate uncertainty

Led by the International National Trusts Organisation, this project will restore six historic buildings in six countries across the Middle East, North Africa and East Africa, …

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