Managing Heritage in Africa ─ Who Cares?

Managing Heritage in Africa provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date synthesis of heritage management practice in Africa, covering a broad spectrum of heritage issues such as archaeology, living traditions, sacred sites, heritage of pain (slavery), international conventions cultural landscapes, heritage in conflict areas and heritage versus development. Dealing with both intangible and tangible heritage, Managing Heritage in Africa gives an informative insight into some of the major issues and approaches to contemporary heritage management in Africa and situates the challenges facing heritage practitioners.

Webber Ndoro (MA, York; MPhil, Cambridge; PhD, Uppsala) is Director of the African World Heritage Fund based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Associate Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town. He worked as a heritage manager at Great Zimbabwe from 1988 to 1994. He taught heritage management at the University of Zimbabwe before joining ICCROM’s Africa 2009 programme as the Projects Manager. He has authored several papers in journals and books, and in 2015 was awarded the ICCROM prize for his contribution to heritage conservation.

Shadreck Chirikure, (MA, PhD, University College London) is a leading scholar on heritage management and indigenous knowledge systems in Africa. He has vast experience in managing cultural heritage in Africa and has participated in several projects such as rehabilitating Khami World Heritage Sites. Currently, Shadreck is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town. He has published in leading peer reviewed journals such as Current Anthropology and Antiquity. His books include Indigenous Mining and Metallurgy in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Metals in Past Societies (Springer 2015).

Janette Deacon (MA, PhD Cape Town), studied archaeology at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1960. Her PhD was awarded in 1982. She edited the South African Archaeological Bulletin from 1976 to 1993. In 1989, she was appointed as Archaeologist at the National Monuments Council and was involved in the drafting of the National Heritage Resources Act. After retiring at the end of 1999 she served as Chairperson of Heritage Western Cape and between 2000 and 2011 arranged a series of courses and workshops on rock art conservation and management for the Southern African Rock Art Project and the Getty Conservation Institute at World Heritage sites in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. She was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. by UCT in 2016.