Re|Founding Cultural Heritage Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Call for contributions for a collective work project

This unprecedented project aims to produce a reference work on cultural heritage law in Africa, based on the observation that no such work yet exists, and that jurists interested in heritage protection issues remain little-known. Its ambition is therefore to reveal the work of a young generation of jurists and to create a network of African experts on these issues.

With this in mind, the call is particularly aimed at applications from young researchers who are nationals of one of the fifteen West African states (Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cabo-Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra-Leone, Togo). However, this strong focus on nationals from these fifteen states does not rule out other African candidates.

UNESCO and EPA are working in close collaboration with Professor Vincent Négri of Institute of Social Sciences in Politics / ISP - ENS Paris-Saclay, who is responsible for the scientific aspects of this initiative. This initiative is part of a long-term approach that will help provide a concrete response to the need for local human resources specialized in cultural heritage law in sub-Saharan Africa, with a view to guiding operational national and regional policies and measures for the protection and sustainable preservation of African heritage.

This project also benefits from the institutional support of ECOWAS, the Art-Law Centre (Geneva), The Higher Regional School of Magistracy (ERSUMA), UNIDROIT, and Senghor University in Alexandria.