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The fifth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee meeting for the safeguarding of intangible Cultural heritage , completed its work on 19th November after inscribing 51 new elements on UNESCO’s Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage. |
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The meeting was held at Nairobi’s Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) from 15th – 19th November, 2010 was officially opened by Kenya’s vice President, H.E. Hon. Stephen kalonzo Musyoka, Mp, EGH and was also attended by the Director General of UNESCO H.E. Mrs. Irina Bokova .
The meeting’s President/ Chairperson was Dr. Jacob Ole Miaron. (Kenya), who is also the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture. Over 450 delegates from 129 Member States including Observers, NGO’s and members of the UNESCO Secretariat attended the meeting. Kenya was elected as one of the members from the Electoral groups (5a). The other members from Africa are Burkina Faso and Madagascar.
As stated earlier, four new elements were added to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, for a total number of 16. The new elements are:
• China – Meshrep
• China - The watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks
• China - Wooden movable-type printing of China
• Croatia - Ojkanje singing
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MINISTRY TO HONOR KENYA’S HEROES/HEROINES AND THE MASHUJAA DAY CELEBRATION TO BE MARKED ON 20TH OCTOBER, 2010 |
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The newly adopted constitution provides for a national day, designated Mashujaa Day to be observed on every 20th October in which we remember Kenya’s national heroes and heroines who contributed in the nation’s liberation struggle.
The Government through the Ministry has undertaken several initiatives to ensure our national heroes and heroines are honoured and the role they played remains in the conscious of Kenyans who now enjoy enormous freedoms as a result. As part of this the Ministry constituted a Taskforce on 20th March 2007 to carry out a countrywide data collection on the Criteria and modalities for identifying, recognizing and honouring national heroes and heroines.
In their report the taskforce defined what it considered as the core values of Kenya’s nationhood, that is, patriotism, unity in diversity, and mutual social responsibility. The core values became the ground on which to anchor the proposed National Heroes and Heroines Honour System.
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REPORT ON THE COAST TOUR OF THE ASSISTANT MINISTER