Safeguard Sudan's Living Heritage from Conflict and Climate Change.

We are a project funded by the British Council Cultural Protection Fund, supported by national and international partners, and managed on the ground by our team of Sudanese professionals.

Campaign

#OurHeritageOurSudan

Join our 90-day campaign, commencing on October 21st, and become a part of preserving Sudan's rich cultural heritage and sharing its compelling narratives. Our mission is to reach thousands of individuals in Sudan, along its borders, and within the global Sudanese diaspora, starting with local communities in Sudan itself. Host events, spread the message, and help create new stories that defy the impact of war. Together we can make a meaningful difference.

Campaign #OurHeritageOurSudan • Stories #YouCanSay_

#OurHeritageOurSudan   #SeeSudanHeritage #SaveSudanHeritage

Join our 90-day campaign. Safeguard Sudan's living cultural heritage by sharing it. Engage with Sudan's living heritage, learn about it, show how it is done, host events, share the message, and help create new stories that defy the impact of war. Together we can reach thousands of individuals and communities in Sudan, along its borders, and across the worldwide Sudanese diaspora. Together we can make a difference.

Communities can safeguard their living heritage in many different ways

Conflict &
Climate Change

Our project delves into the intricate relationships between culture, climate, and livelihoods in Sudan. We conduct research, create maps and exhibitions, and collaborate closely with vulnerable communities to document their culture and help build resilience. Join us in the campaign to build a sustainable future where culture is interwoven with livelihoods and a healthy environment.

Help the next generation benefit from community culture and local knowledge

Living heritage

Our mission is to rally support for Sudan's living heritage and its multifaceted cultural panorama. It encompasses how people dance, create music, cultivate their food, care for their livestock, craft artifacts, celebrate traditions, and practice their beliefs. This cultural legacy is deeply interwoven into Sudan's history, landscape and identity, both rural and urban. It serves as a wellspring of local wisdom and vibrancy that can help shape Sudan's future.

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Living heritage: markets
Stories
The great Aseeda bake off
Stories
Make community museums for sharing culture and peacebuilding

Museums

Our project includes museums because Sudan's living heritage has ancient roots – older than the pyramids. This invaluable and irreplaceable legacy is part of Sudan's evolving cultural landscape even today. Museums can make connections over time and between communities. They provide civic spaces where people can learn about the past and collectively shape their legacy for themselves and future generations.

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Darfur Women’s Museum
Museums
Conservation
Collections
Darfur exhibition
Events
Ethnographic Museum
Collections
Nura’s Women’s Museum
Museums

About

Safeguarding Sudan’s Living Heritage against Conflict and Climate Change is a project funded by the British Council Cultural Protection Fund, managed in partnership with DCMS.

We are working with:

Museums that hold histories of Sudan’s living heritage in their collections. This includes the Supervising Committee renovating the Ethnographic Museum in Khartoum and improving the condition of its collections and exhibitions.

Nomadic pastoralists in North Kordofan and local communities in Nyala and Darfur to safeguard their culture, under the umbrella of the UNESCO ICH conventions and with the National Council for Cultural Heritage and Promotional of National Languages.

International emergency response organisations to help focus attention on and identify funding for Sudan's intangible heritage, museums, heritage sites and monuments endangered by the current conflict crisis.

Safeguarding Sudan's Living Heritage grew out of the Western Sudan Community Museum project (WSCM), funded by the British Council CPF and Aliph Foundation (2018-2022). Despite challenges like the revolution, Covid, and the coup, all three project museums, the Khalifa House in Omdurman, Darfur Museum in Nyala and Sheikan Museum in El Obeid, were vibrant community venues with great collections and exhibitions.

The SSLH project started in

December 2022

and will finish in

February 2025

Lead Partner

Mallinson Architects & Enginerers Ltd, London.

Local Partners

Supervisory Committee of Sudan Museum of Heritage (Ethnographic Museum, Khartoum). Sudan National Corporation Antiquities and Museums (NCAM), Khartoum, Sheikan Museum, El Obeid, Kordofan. Centre for Darfur Heritage, Nyala University, South Darfur. Kaman Collective, Nyala, South Darfur. CEARCH Foundation, Khartoum. Studio Urban, Khartoum. Likikiri Collective, Juba, South Sudan, KVS

International Partners

ICCROM ATHAR Regional Conservation Office, Sharjah. British Institute Eastern Africa, London and Nairobi. The British Museum, London, Department of Africa, Oceana and the Americas, Department of Egypt and Sudan. Cambridge University, the MAEASaM project hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. Cairo Child Museum. Sudan Memory, Kings College, London. Yoho Media, Bristol, UNESCO Cairo Office, UNESCO Khartoum Office, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties JSPS Sudan Living Heritage Project 東京文化財研究所 スーダン・リビングヘリテージ・プロジェクト(科研費)

Project Team

Dr Amani Gashi
Amani Bashir
Dr Khalid Shamboul
Mohamad Kamal
Anas Madani
Zainab O. M. Gaafar
Amna Elidrissy
Ashraf Abdalla
Gafar Ali Fudol Ibramim
Elfatih Atem
Rebecca Lorins
Dr Fatma Mostafa
Mark Whatmore
Michael Mallinson
Ibramhim Ahmad Snoopy
Dr Helen Mallinson
Dr Amani Gashi
Amani Bashir
Dr Khalid Shamboul
Mohamad Kamal
Anas Madani
Zainab O. M. Gaafar
Amna Elidrissy
Ashraf Abdalla
Gafar Ali Fudol Ibramim
Elfatih Atem
Rebecca Lorins
Dr Fatma Mostafa
Mark Whatmore
Michael Mallinson
Ibramhim Ahmad Snoopy
Dr Helen Mallinson