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Senegal improves the safeguarding of traditional music thanks to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund

The adoption of safeguarding plans for traditional music marks the project’s success where local communities have been sensitized, musical traditions inventoried, a database and ›››

Financial assistance, a key mechanism for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Africa

Senegal is about to conclude an eighteen-month project to safeguard traditional music accompanying various events of social life (rituals and celebrations related to birth ›››

Eleven new inscriptions on the Representative List

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage, holding its 8th session until 7 December, today inscribed 11 elements on the Representative List of the ›››

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Project

Inventory of traditional musics in Senegal

12 August 2013 – 3 December 2014
Amount (US$) 80,789.00
Benefitting country(ies): Senegal ,
This project aims to undertake an inventory of the traditional music of Senegal that encompasses a vast and diverse array of musical traditions, genre... ›››

Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Kankurang, Manding Initiatory Rite

1 November 2006 – 1 April 2009
Amount (US$) 146,962.00
Benefitting country(ies): Gambia , Senegal ,
The Kankurang is a protective spirit, embodied by a masked and costumed man, at the centre of a ritual system comprising songs, traditions and initiat... ›››
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