Search Thursday, 6 May 2021 at 16:00:00 3 min read
To celebrate the sixth edition of African World Heritage Day, on the 5
th of May, UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre (WHC) in collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) hosted a webinar under the African Union s (AU) theme for 2021: Arts, culture and heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want .
The Director of the WHC, Ms Mechtild Rössler, inaugurated the event with an opening address on the resilience of African heritage and local stakeholders in facing the present challenges of preservation, while emphasizing the synergy of different UNESCO Culture Conventions to bring culture as an expression of the richness of Africa to the very centre of its socio-economic development.
Search Thursday, 6 May 2021 at 16:00:00 3 min read
To celebrate the sixth edition of African World Heritage Day, on the 5
th of May, UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre (WHC) in collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) hosted a webinar under the African Union s (AU) theme for 2021: Arts, culture and heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want .
The Director of the WHC, Ms Mechtild Rössler, inaugurated the event with an opening address on the resilience of African heritage and local stakeholders in facing the present challenges of preservation, while emphasizing the synergy of different UNESCO Culture Conventions to bring culture as an expression of the richness of Africa to the very centre of its socio-economic development.