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3RD AFRICOM GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CONFERENCE
 
“New Museums for Africa: Change and Continuity”
AFRICOM's 3rd General Assembly & Conference which was to be held at the Ouaga 2000 International Conference Centre, from 2-5 December 2009, has been postponed to 27-30th October 2010
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Postponement of the 3rd AFRICOM General Assembly and Conference to October 2010
The AFRICOM Board of Directors regrets to inform the AFRICOM Membership, the Funding and Technical Partners and the public that the 3rd AFRICOM General Assembly and Conference originally scheduled for 2-5 December 2009 in Burkina Faso has been postponed to 27-30 October 2010...more
The Musee Du quai Branly (France) creates a Digital Catalogue of all the African Collections
The outgoing Director of EPA, Alain Godonou, Mrs Marie Escot from the Musee du quai Branly, the AFRICOM President, Ms Deirdre Prins- Solani, and Mr Francois Gaudeau, the representative for the MAE,attended the handing over ceremony of a memory stick with the digital catalogue of the entire African collection ...more
AFRICOM Board unveils vision of “a secure, rich and vibrant African heritage”
The AFRICOM 2009-2013 strategic document was discussed and approved by the AFRICOM Board of Directors during a crucial three day meeting held in Nairobi on the 20th of April 2009.The meeting brought together...more
AFRICOM disburses the Small Grants Funds!
AFRICOM is pleased to announce and congratulate seven heritage projects across Africa who successfully qualified and awarded a grant of $35000 in total in the first round of its Small Grants Fund Programme...more
HERITAGE NEWS
Questionaire: Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA)
CHDA is part of a case study that aims to look into the Mandates, Functions and Roles of Heritage Training Organizations in Africa with regards to Sustainable Community Developments in Africa.Please see the questionaire ...
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Centre for Heritage Development in Africa: Website is Live!
We wish to announce that the CHDA website is now LIVE! We invite you to log on to www.heritageinafrica.org and give them your feedback. The first radio program also went live last Friday with repeats on Saturday and Sunday. To listen to the full program, please log into www.channelafrica.org)...
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African museum for peace to be built in Chad
The African Union (AU) and the Chadian government will create the first African museum for peace, human rights and non-violence here, Head of the Culture and Sports Section of the AU, Daraïtivo Ralaïbo, said at a press ...
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Angola: Culture Department Controls 121 Monuments and Sites
The provincial culture department in central Huambo province currently controls 121 monuments and sites, from which only the "Quissala Fortress", symbol of the struggle of native people against the colonial occupation is classified as a national cultural and historic heritage ...
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Third World Culturelink Conference - Call for papers
The Culturelink Network is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the network is organizing this Conference under the title “Networks—The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century,” to be held in Zagreb ...
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Call for residency applications & new work submissions
INFECTING THE CITY (the Spier Performing Arts Festival) is a theme-orientated festival that presents free site-specific and public performance works in inner city Cape Town, South Africa. Entering its 3rd year in this form ...
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