Partners
Advisory Board
The importance of the project is reflected by the interest of distinguished academics, economists, heritage and media professionals on our advisory board. Members currently include:
Lord (Paul) Boateng: Former Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury
Professor Karim Sadr: Professor of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Webber Ndoro: Director, International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
Barry Gilder: Director of Operations, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
Samuel Sidibi: Former Director, National Museum Bamako
Steven Sack: Executive Director, Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr. Edward Matenga: former curator, Great Zimbabwe monument .
Professor Mark Horton: Professor of Archaeology, Bristol University.
Emeritus Professor Paul Sinclair: Uppsala University Sweden, currently Professor of
Archaeology, Pretoria University, South Africa
Research and support to date
- African World Heritage Fund
- Bamako National Museum, Mali
- University of Bristol, UK. Departments of Archaeology and History
- Origins Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
- University College London, Institute of Archaeology, UK
- Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, South Africa
- University of Witwatersrand, Rock Art Research Institute, South Africa
Access
We have unparalleled access to the latest thinking and discoveries about African history and global trade through contacts with the PanAfrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies
Archaeologists, historians, geneticists, linguists and climatologists are discovering new evidence about African kingdoms and city states that traded several thousand years ago with the Arabian Peninsula, and as far afield as Brazil, India and China. This reveals a more complex and fascinating view of Africa’s pre-colonial past than has previously been understood, a past which may have a significant bearing on what the future could hold.