Participants were informed that Rwanda is chosen to host an international conference in this regard that will take place between May to June, 2017.
During the workshop in Karongi, participants were urged to mobilize Rwandans as to significantly visit national museums and other historical heritages to have detailed information on the history of their nation.
This aspect of research and leisure should not be left for foreigners only, warned Isidore Ndikumana, the Acting Managing Director of the Institute of National Museums.
He revealed that during the forthcoming conference to take place in Rwanda, participants will focus on how special cultural heritage such as poetry, songs and other more verbal facets of culture can be sustained allover the world.
The Executive Secretary of the RALC , Dr James Vuningoma underscored the importance of safeguarding and sustaining traditional medicine based on threes and herbs.
In Rwanda, some of the medical herbs and trees are getting extinct, thus an urgent call for their protection.
The Karongi workshop was attended by the Managing directors of National museums from Kenya, the manager of the International Council of African Museum (Africom), The CEO of the UNESCO in the African Great Lakes region and representatives of the USA based Yale university, Victoria & Albert Museum and Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany.
The two last international conferences in this regard were convened in London, UK, in 2015, this year’s conference took place n USA while the next year’s will convene in Kigali.
UM– USEKE.RW.
