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 by our Sudanese team.

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

Living heritage holds communities together and provides a wealth of local knowledge and resources. The war in Sudan, the humanitarian crisis, and mass displacement of families and communities, pose an existential threat. On November 1st 2023 we launched a campaign to raise awareness of Sudan's living heritage. SSLH is capacity building communities inside and outside Sudan and making Sudanese living heritage more visible and accessible.

Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X or LinkedIn, explore our YouTube channel, visit our online Museum.

Living heritage is community heritage.

Conflict &
Climate Change

The SSLH project is rooted in 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. We are helping build a 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 spaces for sharing culture and peacebuilding

Community Spaces

Living heritage is practiced where people live and work. The task of sharing, safeguarding and promoting living heritage can be strengthened by bringing together people with different capacities in community spaces, whether event spaces or community museums, whether real or virtual. In community spaces people can interact, learn about each other, their past and present, make new connections, and shape their legacy for 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 inside and outside Sudan with:

Museums that hold histories of Sudan’s living heritage in their collections. This includes public and private museums and archives, the authorities that manage them, individual collectors and photographers.

Different community groups to help safeguard their culture, under the umbrella of the UNESCO
ICH conventions and with the National Council for Cultural Heritage and Promotion 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 (2018-2023). This project faced the challenges of the revolution, Covid, and the coup and all three project museums – the Khalifa House in Omdurman, Darfur Museum in Nyala and Sheikan Museum in El Obeid – were restored as vibrant community venues. The SSLH project started with the Ethnographic Museum in Khartoum and specific communities in Darfur and Kordofan. It now encompasses Sudan’s living heritage in general and has set up a host of new initiatives.

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