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TARA-Newsletter-No.7 TRUST FOR AFRICAN ROCK ART Lake Victoria region, Uganda FOUNDING PATRONS ADVISORY BOARD SECRETARY KTARA Trustees OCTOber 2005 Dr Mary Leakey Neville Agnew Michael Legamaro David Coulson Sir Laurens van der Post Megan Biesele Rupert Watson Jean Clottes Kenya Fredrick Anderson EXECUTIVE BOARD Robert Hitchcock PO Box 24122 Alec Campbell Amini Mturi Nairobi 00502 USA David Coulson (Chairman) John Parkington Tel: +(254) 20 884467/883735 501 Delancey Street #607 Janette Deacon Roberta Simonis Fax: +(254) 20 883674 San Francisco Thomas Hill (Treasurer) Nigel Winser E-mail: [email protected] CA 94107 David Kiyaga-Mulindwa Tel: +(1) 212 355 7255 Victoria Waldock Fax: +(1) 212 980 5320 TARA is registered in the United States as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. TARA is a member of the International Federation of Rock Art Organizations. www.africanrockart.org from the chairman In the last six months one of the most positive developments has been our new partnership with UNESCO. Following meetings in Paris in June, TARA was invited to cooperate with UNESCO in promoting the conservation and awareness of Africa’s rock art heritage. In July, I spoke on “Under Represented Rock Art Heritage Sites in Africa” at UNESCO’s international conference held in Durban. Returning via Johannesburg, my wife, Deborah and I attended Nelson Mandela’s birthday celebrations which included a lecture by Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai. In April the rock art exhibition “The Future of Africa’s Past” opened at the National Museum in Dar es Salaam to great acclaim. The opening event was attended by around 200 people and the exhibition remained on display for more than 3 months and was visited by over 20,000 people. In May, TARA helped facilitate a gathering of 30 African UN Ambassadors in New York for the purpose of appealing to African governments to act to protect their rock art heritage “before it is too late”. The event was hosted by the Algerian Ambassador to the UN, Dr Abdallah Baali. At the beginning of June, Alec Campbell and I were invited to France by Jean Clottes to visit the famous Chauvet Cave. Magnificent cave lions, woolly rhinos, bison and cave bears awaited us in this cave, all painted more than 20,000 years before the pyramids. In early September Amolo and I flew to Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria to help launch Kenya’s first rock art tourism project, a TARA project in collaboration with the Abasuba Peace Museum and the National Museums of Kenya. The ceremony, in a cave with geometric paintings, was attended by Kenya’s Minister of National Heritage, the US Ambassador to Kenya and the Chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board. We also visited Kakapel rock painting site south of Mt Elgon where we were greeted by several hundred enthusiastic villagers. The Kakapel site is covered under the same rock art tourism project. David Coulson, Chairman TARA about tara The goals of TARA are to create a permanent visual archive of Africa’s rock art before it is too late, share this priceless archive with the world community, and, to the extent possible, preserve today’s most threatened rock art sites, however remote, across the African continent. TARA believes an important way to realize the value of rock art in Africa for present and © US Embassy, Kenya future generations is to promote awareness of its Minister Najib Balala planting a tree at Kakapel, west- richness, antiquity and importance. ern Kenya, with him is the US Ambassador to Kenya, William Bellamy. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, TARA is the world’s only have also been widely acclaimed in the scientific and organization dedicated to this cultural imperative. popular media. TARA’s work has been endorsed by Nelson Mandela, who encourages national governments and local TARA’s chairman, international photographer David communities throughout Africa to contribute their Coulson, has made it his life’s work to photograph time and resources to the challenge of preserving and and document rock art in over 20 different African protecting Africa’s rock art. countries. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a statement to TARA in 2005, called on African leaders TARA has also received support and recognition from to take a new and more active role, and on private the Ford Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation businesses, foundations and individuals to contribute and the National Geographic Society, amongst others. their expertise and resources. TARA’s singular contributions All photos © David Coulson / TARA unless credited otherwise. Create greater global awareness of the importance and endangered state of African rock art; survey sites; monitor status; be an information resource and archive; and promote and support rock art conservation measures. 2 trust for african rock art newsletter – OCTOber 2005 NEWS african rock art nations committee meeting © UN In May 2005, Algeria’s ambassador to the UN Abdallah Baali, AFRICA’S ROCK ART HERITAGE: hosted a meeting of UN ambassadors of African rock art A COMMUNIQUE TO AFRICA’S GOVERNMENTS nations. The meeting, held at the Algerian Mission in New York and attended by 30 ambassadors, unanimously endorsed a At a gathering in New York City on 24th May statement calling on their respective governments to preserve 2005, hosted by Algeria, the permanent Africa’s rock art heritage. In addition to the 30 ambassadors representatives to the United Nations in the event was also attended by Wilmot James of the Ford attendance endorsed the following joint statement by Ambassador Baali and TARA, Foundation and by Tom Nygren of the Mellon Foundation and and agreed to communicate to their respective Aluka. governments this message of common commitment to the preservation of Africa’s rock art heritage: We are pleased and honoured to join Top: Ambassadors who Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former attended the meeting pose President of South Africa Nelson Mandela in for a group photograph. their outspoken concern for the preservation Left & below: participants of a priceless cultural treasure – the rock art of chat just before meeting. Africa – one of the oldest and most extensive records on earth of human thought and the emergence of artistic expression. We concur wholeheartedly with Nelson Mandela: “Africa’s rock art is the common © UN heritage of all Africans, but it is more than that. It is the common heritage of humanity. Yet, as populations increase and vandalism and theft of Africa’s rock art are on the rise, this irreplaceable resource is highly threatened.” Further, we embrace the view of Secretary- General Annan that – to preserve Africa’s rock art – the education of Africa’s children and the involvement of local communities wherever rock art exists are essential goals for government and non-government organizations alike. Finally, we pledge to assist the Secretary- General by delivering to our respective governments his call to action: “It is time for Africa’s leaders to take a new and more active role. We must save this cultural heritage © UN before it is too late.” trust for african rock art newsletter – october 2005 3 Anti-clockwise from top: Entrance to the Dar es tara’s rock art Salaam Museum; Dr Paul Msemwa of Dar es Salaam Museum looks at interactive exhibition moves to map with Gudrun Leirvaag of SIDA; A guest draws a dar es salaam winning ticket for a prize TARA’s latest museum exhibition was co-hosted by from Vodacom; Dr Audax Mabulla shows participants the House of Culture National Museum Dar es Salaam the exhibition; opening and the Department of Antiquites of Tanzania and ran night entertainment. for 100 days between April and July 2005. Over 20,000 Photos © Rowena White / TARA people were able to view the exhibition. Teachers and adult visitors to the exhibition received a copy of the Tanzania edition of the rock art guidebook, which was sponsored by Vodacom Tanzania Limited, who were also lead sponsors of the exhibition overall. 3000 copies of this Tanzania edition were given out, plus another 1000 or so of the general East Africa guide book. All children received a one-page flier on African rock art. The exhibition opens in Kampala, Uganda, on September 15 2005 and will run for three months. trust for african rock art newsletter – OCTOber 2005 LUCKY ESCAPE At the beginning of August TARA’s senior driver Romulus Khagavo (Rom) was driving north from Dr Paul Msemwa and museum attendants and staff who looked after Zipporah in Dar es Sa Dar es Salaam on his way back to Nairobi. - laam. We are indebted to Bim Theobald of Chaib - Our exhibition at the National Museum had just ora, who sent a driver to rescue Zip from her first closed and Rom was bringing back some of the hospital and at the same time sent a truck to pick remaining materials accompanied by another up the landcruiser. Jim Heather-Hayes and Benoit staff member, Zipporah Sangilu. Unfortunately Wangermez of AMREF (Flying Doctors) went out half way to Arusha Rom was forced to swerve of their way to help us evacuate Zipporah back to violently to avoid a man who came onto the road Nairobi - thanks go to them as well. on a bike. As a result the vehicle rolled, injuring Zipporah as well as causing major damage to We all wish Zipporah the best for her recovery. TARA’s Toyota Landcruiser. Rom himself was fortunately uninjured. Although the vehicle was looted by nearby locals, while Rom tried to assist Zipporah, Zipporah was eventually taken to hospital, first to Muheza District Hospital near the scene of the accident and from there to the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam. X-Rays showed that she had fractured vertebrae and ribs and it was decided to bring her back to Kenya to recuperate near her family and friends as soon as possible.
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