TARA NEWS & EVENTS

German film maker’s giraffe research at TARA, January 2012

German documentary film maker, Lea Hartlaub, carried out research at TARA.

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George Abungu, Speaker at Stanford, January 2012

TARA board member, Dr George Abungu, is one of the speakers at the Ruth K. Franklin Symposium at Stanford University on cultural heritage and African art.

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Research at Kakapel Rock Art Site, Kenya, January 2012

Dr Emmanuel Ndiema of the National Museums of Kenya, with support from TARA, has received a grant from the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) to carry out research work at Kakapel rock art site in western Kenya.

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TARA contributes to Komba, 2011

TARA’s Gloria K. Borona contributed an article, ‘A priceless gift from our ancestors’, to the Wildlife Club of Kenya (WCK) magazine, Komba

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Smithsonian Representatives Visit TARA, December 2011

TARA hosted Dr. Stephen Kidd, Dr.Daniel Sheehy, and Preston T. Scott, representatives of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.

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ROCK ART NEWS
Traveling: Visit Kondoa, Tanzania rock paintings, January 2011 PDF Print E-mail

Panel depicting human and geometric images.

Photo: David Coulson/TARA

Reported by TheCitizen, January 2012

The beautiful scenery of Kondoa came to my attention once again recently. My associate and I left Arusha in the afternoon and two-hours later we arrived in Babati, where we were meant to spend a night before heading to Kolo, Kondoa the next day.

After a night in Babati town, we went on our way to Kolo – the home of rock painting sites. The road from Babati to Kolo passes through an undulating landscape with a united ribbon of villages. I noticed, as we drove on, that this area had received the best rain recently.

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ROCK ART IN DANGER

Rock art is fragile and irreplaceable

"Africa's rock art is the common heritage of all Africans and all people. It is the common heritage of humanity. As populations increase and vandalism and theft of Africa's rock art are on the rise, this irreplaceable resource is highly threatened. It is time for Africa's leaders to take a new and more active role. We must save this cultural heritage before it is too late."

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2005)

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