The Gambia grabbed its first complete catalog of intangible cultural heritage from UNESCO's Dakar office at a ceremony in Toubacouta, Senegal, and deputy heritage director Mamat Sallah thanked the organization for backing the inventory project that tracked cultural knowledge across the country. The catalog hits schools and universities nationwide while officials work with the education ministry to bake the content into classroom curricula, and Sallah mentioned recent planning meetings in Janjanbureh to figure out rollout logistics.
The government is running inventory work across 33 communities in the Central River Region and pushing to get a Gambian cultural element onto UNESCO's official safeguarding list. Sallah said the project actually delivered physical resources instead of just paperwork, which helps tourism and preservation efforts going forward.
The government is running inventory work across 33 communities in the Central River Region and pushing to get a Gambian cultural element onto UNESCO's official safeguarding list. Sallah said the project actually delivered physical resources instead of just paperwork, which helps tourism and preservation efforts going forward.
