Kano Hosts 2025 UNESCO World Heritage Programme

Director-General of the African International Documentary and Festival Foundation (AFIDFF), Malame Mangzha, has reaffirmed the organisation’s committedness to supporting Kano State successful securing a UNESCO World Heritage presumption for its historical sites, arsenic the 2025 UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Programme kicked disconnected successful Kano State.

Mangzha stated this yesterday during the predisposition and opening ceremonial of the programme astatine Gidan Dan Hausa, History and Culture Bureau, which was organised by the instauration successful collaboration with the Kano State government.

Mangzha, who besides serves arsenic the nationalist coordinator of the UNESCO WHV Initiative, said Kano was selected for the 2025 variation successful designation of its centuries-old taste and humanities significance.

“Kano has been connected UNESCO’s tentative database for much than 20 years. We judge it is clip to task these sites and enactment with the authorities authorities to execute afloat World Heritage recognition,” she said.

She explained that the volunteers volition undertake hands-on activities crossed 8 cardinal practice sites — including the past metropolis walls, Gidan Sarki, Kurmi Market, Dala Hills, Minjibir, and the tanneries, among others — to papers and beforehand their planetary visibility.

While noting that, the lawsuit brought unneurotic implicit 20 spouse organisations including the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, National Council for Arts and Culture, and the Nigerian Red Cross among others, she commended the authorities authorities for providing logistics, accommodation, and information for participants, describing the motion arsenic impervious of the state’s committedness to practice preservation and younker empowerment.

In his remarks, the enforcement secretary, History and Culture Bureau, Ahmed Kabir Yusuf, hailed the collaboration arsenic timely, noting that it coincides with the 100th day of the state’s History and Culture Bureau.

Kano State commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Aisha Saji, besides lauded the volunteers’ efforts, emphasising that their enactment would assistance safeguard Kano’s taste bequest for aboriginal generations.