Browsing by Author "Kiriama, Herman"

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    Sacred natural sites and cultural heritage in East Africa
    (Africa Bib, 2013) Ballarin, Marie Pierre; Kiriama, Herman; Pennacini, Cecilia
    The papers in this special issue of 'Uganda Journal' are the first result of a research project, 'Social historical approaches to natural sacred sites and contemporary implications for the preservation of heritage', which was conducted in the framework of a French Foreign Ministry Research Programme, CORUS. The sites investigated are located in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Contributions: Introduction (Marie Pierre Ballarin, Herman Kiriama and Cecilia Pennacini); Mubende Hill: preserving and transforming heritage in a Ugandan sacred site (Cecilia Pennacini); Twins in myth and music: historical controversies over Winyi I's tomb at Kibulala (Uganda) (Linda Cimardi); Music in the sacred forest of the Rwenzori (Vanna Viola Crupi); Buddo Naggalabi coronation site (Buganda): controversies around a source of unity (Anna Baral); The sacred grove of Gihanga (Rwanda): between historical memory and biodiversity conservation (Ilaria Buscaglia); Rabai at the crossroads of Christianity, anti-slavery crusade and the Mijikenda culture (Kenya), Intangible heritage, identity and archaeology at 'kaya' Mudzi Mwiru (Kenya) (Herman O. Kiriama); Heritage, communities and opportunities: Shimoni slave cave and Wasimi island heritage sites (Kenya) (Patrick O. Abungu)
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    Sacred natural sites and cultural heritage in East Africa
    (Africa Bib, 2013) Ballarin, Marie Pierre; Kiriama, Herman; Pennacini, Cecilia
    The papers in this special issue of 'Uganda Journal' are the first result of a research project, 'Social historical approaches to natural sacred sites and contemporary implications for the preservation of heritage', which was conducted in the framework of a French Foreign Ministry Research Programme, CORUS. The sites investigated are located in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Contributions: Introduction (Marie Pierre Ballarin, Herman Kiriama and Cecilia Pennacini); Mubende Hill: preserving and transforming heritage in a Ugandan sacred site (Cecilia Pennacini); Twins in myth and music: historical controversies over Winyi I's tomb at Kibulala (Uganda) (Linda Cimardi); Music in the sacred forest of the Rwenzori (Vanna Viola Crupi); Buddo Naggalabi coronation site (Buganda): controversies around a source of unity (Anna Baral); The sacred grove of Gihanga (Rwanda): between historical memory and biodiversity conservation (Ilaria Buscaglia); Rabai at the crossroads of Christianity, anti-slavery crusade and the Mijikenda culture (Kenya), Intangible heritage, identity and archaeology at 'kaya' Mudzi Mwiru (Kenya) (Herman O. Kiriama); Heritage, communities and opportunities: Shimoni slave cave and Wasimi island heritage sites (Kenya) (Patrick O. Abungu). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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    The Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya
    (Research Gate, 2019-03-25) Kiriama, Herman
    Cultural landscapes impacted by slavery and its effects ineighteenth-century Kenya included coastal trading entrepôts,interior caravan trade routes, coastal plantation complexes,European mission stations, freed slave settlements, and runawayslave settlements. Landscapes represent the values, symbols, andmeanings that societies have imbued upon them. A culturallandscape is not only a physical place, but also encompasses thememories associated with that space. Studies of such landscapesenable understanding of the histories of peoples, places, andevents. This article works to understand how the people wholived in landscapes of slavery in Kenya perceived and interactedwith those terrains. Former slaves and their descendants usedtangible and intangible elements of landscapes to constructplaces of memory; these memories not only connect them to thelandscapes they presently occupy but also to an imaginary,ancestral homeland that they have never seen.
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    The Maritime Silk Road: The Indian Ocean and the Africa China Exchange systems in the late first/ early second Millennium BCE
    (Academia, 2014) Kiriama, Herman
    For decades, excavations along the East African coast have unearthed thousands of Chinese ceramics in several centres along this coast, which stretches for nearly 3000 km. These ceramics range from the Changsha (Du’sun) jass Yue stone wares to the white porcelains. The Changsha stone ware found in East Africa is dated in China to the early 9th C while the Yue stone wares date from the 9th C onwards and the white porcelain dates to after the 9th C. This paper surveys the prevalence of these ceramics along the East African coast and argues that the presence of these ceramics is an indication of not only long time exchange systems between China and the East African coast but also that the East African coast played an important role in the emerging global trade networks that involved the European powers of the time as well.
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    The Role of the African World Heritage Fund in the Conservation of African World Heritage Sites
    (Springer Nature, 2014) Kiriama, Herman
    This chapter discusses the genesis and development of the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) as an organisation mandated to assist African countries to nominate sites on to the World Heritage List (WHL) and to conserve sites that are listed. The chapter discusses the main strategies that the AWHF is using to fulfil its mandate, which include capacity building and provision of grants to African countries to initiate projects. The chapter shows that within Africa, there is a wide acceptance of the AWHF and that through its efforts, African heritage issues have now gained world attention. It is concluded that although it still has challenges and shortcomings, the AWHF has largely succeeded in achieving its main objective of ensuring that African countries have the professional capacity and strategies to prepare World Heritage nomination dossiers and also manage and conserve their World Heritage Sites.