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The Laas Geel rock art site, outside Hargeisa, Somaliland. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

MundoÁfrica

In my first class on an archaeology course at Lund University in Sweden, I stood out more than usual. It was not just that it was full of blond and blue-eyed students, more than in any other class I had ever attended – it was that archaeology is not a field that many migrants study.

My teacher and classmates were lovely, yet I still had this feeling of “What am I, a Somali refugee, doing here?” Furthermore, I had never even seen an archaeologist before, or held an archaeological object. But I had read a sentence in a book (Africa: history of a continent, by Basil Davidson) which said that to write African history we need to do archaeological research.…  Seguir leyendo »

The Egyptian minister of tourism and antiquities, Khaled Al-Anani (wearing glasses), opens a sarcophagus excavated this month by the Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Saqqara necropolis. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images

MundoÁfricaReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia

Cultural heritage is a basic human need. Yes – humans don’t only need food and shelter, culture is required for them to survive and thrive. Our cultural values glue us to one another and help us create security and a community. I believe that cultural and archaeological sites can be part of that basic human need, too. Cemeteries and sacred places form part of our identity. Often these places are even more critical in times of crises as people search for solace and answers.

History keeps us in touch with this identity and sense of community, yet in Africa it has been the preserve of the white investigators.…  Seguir leyendo »