Africa
A significant number of cultural objects originating from African countries are at particular risk. Details of the relevant categories of objects can be found in the Red Lists for Egypt, West Africa and Africa maintained by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Links are provided below to information about the regulations governing exports from all of the African countries that are signatory states to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, as well as certain countries which are not signatory states but which play a key role as tourist destinations or whose cultural property is at particular risk; this information is updated on a regular basis.
Further sources for the legal situation regarding the protection of cultural property in the African states are
the Database www.African-Archaeology.net
This database is operated by the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA). SAFA is a professional organization representing a majority of archaeologists specializing in Africa. Other institutions exist at regional level (e.g. the Southern African Association of Archaeologists).
- the African cultural heritage organisations (ICCROM)
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Edited by Webber Ndoro, Albert Mumma and George Abungu, Edited in Rome 2008
Update: In July 2017, representatives of Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Senegal met in Dakar with a view to the joint establishment of regional cooperation between the Sahel countries on the protection of cultural heritage in this region.
