Sada Mire
Dr Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist and Associate Professor in Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. Her research bridges the archaeology and anthropology of Africa as well as social and natural sciences. Feel free to download her available publications on this page. She is a TED-Speaker whose talk is available on you-tube: 'cultural heritage a basic human need'. She is also the author of the award-winning book Divine Fertility- Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in North East Africa. Her popular writings appear regularly in The Guardian. She is the creator and presenter of MOOC Heritage under Threat, based at Coursera, from Leiden University, where she held a position as Assistant Professor. Her work is also concerned with heritage rights and development, informing international and African policy makers. She lived the first fifteen years of her life in Mogadishu, until 1991, when she settled in Sweden, as a result of the conflict in Somalia. In order to learn about the history of her new society, she studied archaeology and zoo-archaeology at Lund University. She continued at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, for her B.A., in History of Art/Archaeology and then at University College London (UCL) for her M.A. and Ph.D., in African Archaeology, conducting field research in Somaliland and Ethiopia. Sada is advisor to and former Director of the Republic of Somaliland’s Department of Tourism & Archaeology, which she founded in 2007. She is founder and executive director of the Horn Heritage Foundation. In addition, Sada has worked as a Technical Assistant for the United Nations Development Program in Somaliland on cultural resource management and capacity building. Sada has conducted fieldwork in several European and African countries – including the U.K., Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia as well as previously lecturing at UK universities. In the last 10 years, she and her Somaliland team have made many archaeological discoveries, which feature in international scientific publications, such as the Anthropology and Medicine, African Archaeological Review and Antiquity, as well as being profiled and featured in popular media, e.g. Discover Magazine, New Scientist and broadcast media, e.g. CNN, Nat-Geo TV, and the BBC etc. She serves as an editorial board member of the peer-reviewed journals African Archaeological Review, Heritage & Society and Southern African Archaeological Bulletin.
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www.sadamire.com
www.hornheritage.org
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cultural heritage: a basic human need by Sada Mire
living and working in the UK and Somaliland, the interview then delves deeper into the need for preserving knowledge and promoting community engagement and training as a way forward, ultimately arguing how cultural heritage and archaeological knowledge should be regarded as a basic human need. The paper
ends with a discussion on the potential of collaborative practices in terms of bringing communities more closely together."
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living and working in the UK and Somaliland, the interview then delves deeper into the need for preserving knowledge and promoting community engagement and training as a way forward, ultimately arguing how cultural heritage and archaeological knowledge should be regarded as a basic human need. The paper
ends with a discussion on the potential of collaborative practices in terms of bringing communities more closely together."
At this talk she will discuss the historical significance of Mogadishu, one of oldest African capitals, and its ancient trade and multicultural heritage. She will also give further context to the challenges facing heritage preservation in areas of conflict, as well as her work in Somaliland, a self-declared and unrecognized part of Somalia. This event will offer audiences a unique insight into the rich cultural heritage of the Somali people.
Dr Sada Mire was originally from Mogadishu, aged 14 she fled the civil war to take asylum with her family in Sweden. Motivated by a desire to find out more about her culture and history she studied archaeology at SOAS and UCL. She since founded Horn Heritage, a charity created to protect and promote the archaeological heritage of the Horn of Africa, with the core belief that cultural heritage is a human right.