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UNESCO PARTNERS WITH AFRICOM TO REINFORCE THE PROFESSIONAL MUSEUM NETWORK IN AFRICA
 
UNESCO and AFRICOM signed a new partnership agreement, which aims to reinforce the communications, awareness-raising and networking among the professional museum community in Africa. As part of the partnership, AFRICOM’s vast communication tools will be strengthened and supported...more
 
AFRICOM ACTIVITIES
2nd Edition Directory of Museum professionals 2011
We thank all the museum professionals and institutions in Africa who responded to our call to submit their profile details for the 2nd edition Directory of museum professionals in Africa. ...more
Publication
The proceedings of AFRICOM's 1st Conference and General Assembly were published in 2005...more
Internship Programme
AFRICOM offered an 8-week internship opportunity for Museum Professionals...more
Directory of Professionals
Exactly ten years since its first publication, AFRICOM took up the challenge to...more
NEWSLETTERS


AFRICOM NEWS
Issue no.9 2010/11

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WHAT'S ON AT AFRICOM-Elections:Please click here to vote
Elections: List of candidates to the AFRICOM Board
Election of the AFRICOM Board of Directors will be held online from the 4th November to 30th November 2011 ....more
Extension! Online Elections: Calls for candidature to the AFRICOM Board
Election of the AFRICOM Board of Directors will be held online from the 4th November to 30th November 2011 ....more
Southern Sudan- Africa 54th Country
The AFRICOM board, staff and membership congratulate the people of Southern Sudan as they become an independent country on the 9th July 2011 ....more
Norwegian government supports AFRICOM in capacity building and exhibition development in East Africa
The Norwegian government through the sector for cultural affairs signed an agreement with AFRICOM in December 2010, to assist in capacity building and exhibition development for museums in the five East African countries....more
AFRICOM calls for protection of Museums and Heritage sites in Egypt
First and foremost the AFRICOM board, staff and membership extend their deepest sympathy to the bereaved and all those who have lost their properties during this difficult time in Egypt ...
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UNESCO Partners with AFRICOM
In December 2010, UNESCO and AFRICOM signed a new partnership agreement, which aims to reinforce the communications, awareness-raising and networking among the professional museum community in Africa...more
AFRICOM President and Executive Director Met The UNESCO Director General
AFRICOM Executive Director, Rudo Sithole and the CHDA Director, Deirdre Prins- Solani were formally introduced to the UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova by the Director General of the National Museums of Kenya, Dr Idle Farah...more
ICOM Director General met AFRICOM President and Executive Director at the Secretariat
The ICOM Director General, Julien Anfruns had a luncheon meeting with the AFRICOM President Deirdre Prins- Solani and the Executive Director, Rudo Sithole on 16th November 2010 at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi...more
HERITAGE NEWS
UNESCO, CHDA and the National Museums of Tanzania Team up for Museum Training
From 14 to 25 June 2011, over 30 museum professionals from national and community museums across Tanzania participated in an intensive two-week training course on museum and collections management at the Village Museum in Dar es Salaam ...
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Ivory Coast loses its crown jewels
Museum authorities in Ivory Coast have contacted Interpol after thieves stole historic gold jewellery, masks and statues worth an estimated $6m (£3.7m). ...
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Important work of Art disappears at the Nairobi National Museum!
An important work of art by contemporary Kenyan artist, Peterson Kamwathi, went missing on Monday at the Nairobi National Museum, where it was scheduled to be part of an exhibition ...
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ACLS Application Materials Online
The American Council of Learned Societies is happy to announce that application materials for the 2011-12 African Humanities Program fellowship competitions are now available online ...
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The International Museum Day 2011
Museum and Memory is the theme of International Museum Day 2011.IMD 2011 will focus on the African continent whose cultural contribution to the world is often unknown and deserves to be promoted. ...
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