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By Urithi Wetu Research Team, On 23rd of August each year, the world commemorates anInternational Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. The United Nations Organizations for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) proclaimed this day as such to honor the memory of those who suffered under slavery and those who fought […]

By Urithi Wetu Research Team, The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in collaboration with the University of St. Andrews (USTAN), has completed a 10-day training focused on digital heritage documentation in Zanzibar. Supported by the UK’s British Council Cultural Protection Fund (CPF), the training was conducted in the form of in-class and in-field workshops […]

Neema Athman Said, Urithi Wetu Research Group Scholars based at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) received funding from the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA), among other things, to raise public awareness regarding the protection of globally important heritage sites on the Tanzanian coast. The initiatives are implemented through workshops that bring together government […]

Tanzania has several World Heritage Sites including Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the rock art at Kondoa, both in the Rift Valley, and the Swahili sites of Zanzibar Stone Town, and Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani on the Indian Ocean coast. I conducted two weeks of fieldwork and training to implement measures to mitigate climate change impacts […]