Jobs, the digital economy, heritage restitution and the climate crisis are highlighted by an Africa-led G20.
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Ana Angola was captured in the kingdom of Ndongo and spent months on a ship before a journey over land where she was forced to work on the gold mines of Antioquia.
Founded in 1384, the Bamoun kingdom tells an extraordinary history. A Cameroonian archaeologist visits the new museum of the kings.
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
Tunisia has failed to capitalise on the heritage tourism potential of the ancient city and its natural surroundings.
Senegal’s colonial heritage has been interpreted to conceive an African future, turning colonial heritage into an archive of a possible Afrotopia.
Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life.
Clay figurines of musicians, made in the 1930s, are being exhibited along with a new film of actual musicians playing the traditional instruments.
The team from Wits University returned to a well-known ceiling panel in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains, armed with new knowledge about the beliefs of the San people who made the paintings.
In a rare series of interviews, the late Ghanaian leader spoke of how the country’s slave trade was revisited as a vehicle for economic development.
The next ten years will be a critical period in which research agendas can be developed.
For Africans and diasporans, learning about their heritage is important. But it remains to be seen how this will translate into a sustained continental and diasporan engagement.
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Associate Professor and Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, Ohio University
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Lecturer Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Academic Fellow & Lecturer in Architecture and Cultural Heritage, Nottingham Trent University
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Emeritus professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer, Kenyatta University
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Associate Lecturer at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Université de Carthage
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Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Cape Town
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Professor emeritus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Université de Carthage
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Research fellow, University of East Anglia