Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life.
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Many of the artefacts Ethiopia is famous for are found in Tigray. Their continued destruction could lead to irreversible culture shock and social collapse.
Hundreds of Africa’s heritage sites are exposed to sea-level rise and coastal erosion in the future.
Museums allow us to delve deep into the past with eye-catching displays of artefacts, ancient textiles, high-quality images and short films that narrate how our ancestors lived.
Clay figurines of musicians, made in the 1930s, are being exhibited along with a new film of actual musicians playing the traditional instruments.
The next ten years will be a critical period in which research agendas can be developed.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
Visitors to these sites had one particular religious ritual that may strike some as strange: they carved graffiti in important and sacred places.
South Africa has a history of burning books. The ashes of burnt books tell of the barbarism to which a society can descend.
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Senior lecturer, University of East Anglia
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Professor emeritus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Chief Research Officer, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Research fellow, University of East Anglia
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Emeritus Professor of Information Science, University of Pretoria
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Research Scientist in Archaeology, University of Michigan
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Assoc. Curator of Conservation, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Director of Conservation for the International Kurru Archaeological Project, University of Michigan
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Lecturer, Kenyatta University
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Associate Researcher, University of Hamburg
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Postdoctoral Researcher of Water and Climate Risk, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Associate professor, Ohio University
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Coastal oceanographer , Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Cape Town