Abstract

FILHO, Dirceu Cadena de Melo. UNESCO missions in Lusophony Africa: forging heritage, forging territory. Finisterra [online]. 2021, n.118, pp.243-254.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 0430-5027.  https://doi.org/10.18055/finis23942.

The present text aims to analyze the ways in which the heritage and territory of the countries of Lusophone Africa have been produced by the UNESCO’s World Heritage missions. Performed from the 1980s in the newly independent territories of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, the heritages mission’s articulate visions and concepts about the countries, producing at the same time the heritage and the territories. The results shows how different types of missions have played an important role in structuring the territories of these countries, strengthening the different imagined communities, serving as a basis for international recognition and for identifying objects of heritage value.

Keywords : World Heritage; UNESCO’s missions; Lusophone Africa; territory.

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