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Illinois State Museum Joins Global Conversation on the Return of Cultural Heritage
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois State Museum (ISM) will join museums, universities, and museum professionals across five continents virtually April through June to present a four-part conversation series on repatriation and the return of cultural heritage.
Due to colonization practices, museums hold in their collections ancestors, belongings, and treasures belonging to Indigenous peoples. As museums atone with past practices and engage Indigenous communities, they are beginning to return some of their holdings to the cultures where they belong. However, a viable, international approach to repatriation has yet to be found.
NMS Begins Upgrade of 8 Nairobi Markets
NMS Director-General Mohammed Badi speaking in Mombasa on January 29, 2021.
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Speaking on Thursday, April 1, NMS Director-General Mohamed Badi said that the City Park and Muthurwa Markets had already began being upgraded by the Public Works directorate.
“The various parking spaces in the market will be upgraded to ensure that there is enough capacity for farmers to deliver their products in the markets,” Badi said.
The new Ksh 500 million Gikomba market
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The markets which will be upgraded include Muthurwa market, Jericho market, Wakulima market, Uhuru market, City Park market, Toi Market and two markets which are along Landhies Road, and Kayole Spine Road in Embakasi.
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Kenya prepares for regional training workshops on the protection of underwater cultural heritage
A Japan Funds-in-Trust to UNESCO project has provided diving equipment to the National Museums of Kenya's Department of Coastal Archaeology in preparation for two regional capacity-building workshops on the protection of underwater cultural heritage to be held in the second half of 2021 for 18 participants from across the Africa region.
The UNESCO project 'Building Capacity and Raising Awareness for Underwater Cultural Heritage Research in Africa' aims to increase capacities of African underwater archaeologists from Angola, Benin, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Mauritius and Sudan, and raise awareness among community and government stakeholders about the urgency and importance of protecting and promoting underwater cultural heritage. The activities under this initiative aim to build on the positive impact already seen through previous UNESCO activities in Africa in the context of the 2001 Convention concerning the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and strengthen the region's current capabilities on cultural heritage protection.