30 April. ICCROM is pleased to welcome Mr Herman Kiriama, an archaeologist with the National Museums of Kenya, who will be joining the secretariat of the AFRICA 2009 programme, as a consultant during 2008-9.

Herman is a Cambridge-trained archaeologist and is currently Head of Coastal Archaeology in the National Museums of Kenya, based in Fort Jesus.

He is also a research fellow at Deakin University, Australia, where he is examining the issue of slave 'Heritage and Memory', using the Shimoni slave cave in the Kenyan South coast as a case study. He has published widely and has been a resource person with AFRICA 2009 since 2002.

Member State represented: Kenya

updated on: 30 April, 2008