February-March 2022: First MprinT field work in Zanzibar
The first MprinT field work was conducted in Zanzibar in February-March 2022. The field work included early mapping and digitising of manuscripts from villages beyond Zanzibar Stone Town, as well as mosques within the city.
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Activities also included a workshop with partner institutions from Kenya (National Museum of Kenya, Lamu Branch) and Zanzibar (Zanzibar Insititute for Archives and Records). Also part of the workshop were local scholars and custodians of textual and ritual heritage.
In this way the MprinT project aims to produce new historical insight, but not least to bring attention to a documentary heritage that is literally crumbling as we speak.
