This project, financed by Luxembourg, aims at ensuring the safeguarding of, and widely access to, the priceless handwritten cultural heritage both existing in the public and the private collections in the area of Timbuktu.
UNESCO has launched the Slave Route Project in 1994. It aims to break a silence and make universally known the issue of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery, its causes and dramatic results, by means of scientific work.
The interest in the archives of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie - VOC) has grown steadily in recent years.
More than 3.200 postcards covering 16 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
