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March 21, 2025

AFRICE PUSHES FOR NATIONAL RATIFICATION OF A RESOLUTION TO PROTECT SACRED NATURAL SITES IN UGANDA

BY AFRICE ADMIN In a significant move to safeguard Uganda’s cultural and ecological heritage, the African Institute for Culture and Ecology (AFRICE) has started pushing for national ratification of a resolution aimed at protecting the sacred natural sites. The African Commission Resolution 372, passed in 2017, calls on African states to recognize and protect Sacred Natural Sites and Territories (SNST) […]

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March 20, 2025

How do indigenous people understand climate and how it changes?

How do indigenous people understand climate and how it changes? We need to know how indigenous people know climate in their context instead of us the elite (western educated elite) to force them “understand” the meaning of climate according to our understanding. I have spent the bigger part of my life learning from my father (now late) about how our […]

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March 19, 2025

Indigenous Bio cultures and Rights of Nature in Uganda

Dennis Tabaro shares insights in the interview about his work on the rights of nature and the significance of indigenous knowledge and culture in Uganda. By Dennis Tabaro 27 January 2025 The Buliisa elders and Custodians of SNS drawing an Ancestral map of the Sacred Natural Sites.  licence infos The interview questions were posed by dossier coordinator Imke Horstmannshoff. What […]

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June 21, 2023

Buliisa leads in protecting sacred natural sites in Bunyoro

Buliisa has been identified as the leading district in efforts to preserve sacred natural sites in Bunyoro as promoted by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights under Resolution 372 made in 2017. The district is dominated by the indigenous Bagungu and Batyaba are the communities. Buliisa has been identified as the leading district in efforts to preserve sacred […]

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September 23, 2022

African Biodiversity Network discusses preservation of sacred natural sites

Tamale, Aug11-A sensitisation workshop on the African Commission Resolution 372 has been held to among others promote the recognition and protection of sacred sites on the African continent. The three-day workshop, which ended in Tamale, was organised by the Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS), a non-governmental organisation, in partnership with the African Biodiversity Network, and participants included stakeholders […]

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April 19, 2021

Customary Governance and Earth Jurisprudence

A presentation to the 1st Parliamentary Council (Attorney General) of Uganda By DENNIS TABARO OF African Institute for Culture and Ecology (AFRICE) At the Workshop on  the (Bagungu Customary Laws) Ordinance, 2020 15th-16th April 2021 At Garuga Beach Resort Hotel, Kampala, Uganda. The purpose of the workshop was to present the “Buliisa District) Bagungu  Customary Laws and protection of Sacread […]

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African Institute for Culture and Ecology (AFRICE)
P.O.Box 135608
Lungujja,Kosovo Makamba road, Rubaga, Plot 833 kampala
Email: director@africeug.org
Website: http://www.africeug.org.
Tel: +256778338128

About AFRICE

African Institute for Culture and Ecology [AFRICE] is a non-governmental organisation that is registered in Uganda and broadly focuses on working with communities to revive their knowledge and practices on food, land and ecosystems conservation

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Email: director@africeug.org
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