Black Monuments Matter - Online Exhibition

H-Announce Black Monuments Matter - Online Exhibition

Announcement published by Layal Mohammad on Friday, October 2, 2020 Type: Event Date: October 5, 2020 Location: United Kingdom Subject Fields: African History / Studies, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Black History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies

Black Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Black Monuments Matter aspires to create links to living African heritage by making it visible, assessable and known to as many people as possible. In general, we would like to raise awareness of and respect towards Black cultures and Africa’s past to a larger audience.

Black monuments matter and black cultures matter. Sites and monuments are physical representations of histories, heritage and developments in society. This exhibition aims to display the diversity and richness of African cultures as part of world history through the study of African monuments; bringing awareness and pride of African roots and contributions to other cultures. The African continent has numerous sites and monuments of historic and cultural importance, and our exhibition showcases some of its diversity and richness. From the pyramids of Sudan, the Great Mosque of Timbuktu, to the Swahili cities of East Africa, each site is presented in a virtual room and is introduced by short texts written by African scholars.

Through an approach founded on the latest knowledge and technology developed by the Zamani Project, this online exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about the glorious monuments and sites of African heritage and black cultures across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Organisers

Citation: Layal Mohammad. Black Monuments Matter - Online Exhibition. H-Announce. 10-02-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6515834/black-monuments-matter-online-exhibition Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Announce

The Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, the University of Cape Town and the Aga Khan Centre.

Time 5 October 2020 - 31 March 2021.

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Layal Mohammad Coordinator, Marketing, Communications and Professional Programmes Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations The Aga Khan University (International) Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN

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