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Kaolack, May 6 (APS) – The Secretary of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Historical Heritage, Bakary Sarr, highlighted the sites that provide information on the historical and cultural ties between Senegal and Gambia.
‘The historic sites of Wanar and Sine Ngayène, in the Kaolack region, are connected to two sites in the Republic of Gambia, Wassu and Kerbatch. These four sites tell us a lot about the history of Senegambia and on historical and cultural continuities, ” he said.
Bakary Sarr intervened on Monday during the ceremony of celebration of the day of valuation and development of the Senegalese national heritage organized by the regional cultural center.
The deputy to the governor in charge of development, Mamadou Habib Kamara, customary chiefs and cultural actors took part in this event intended to promote the historic sites classified as World Heritage by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).
Through this day, he said, it is “fundamentally” enhance the Senegalese cultural heritage, material as intangible, which provides information on the history of Senegal and Senegambia.
He estimated that the celebration of this day is symbolic insofar as the Kaolack region constitutes a laboratory, a cultural pool.
Bakary Sarr recalled on this occasion that the President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and the whole government have set up this new approach inscribed in the new Senegal 2050 repository, with a watermark a valuation of cultural heritage, cultural and creative industries as well as the development and enhancement of human capital.
-According to him, ”many historic and cultural sites to know plead in favor of a massive presence of youth, during this day of valuation and enhancement of the national heritage.
“We are here in an approach of transmission, sovereignty but also of the recovery of historical truth. You are supposed to understand how our spaces and our populations, since the oldest history, have built a know-how which shows today all the ingenuity of our populations,” said Sarr.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Creative Industries and Historical Heritage, believes that young people must carry, enhance and preserve this material and intangible cultural heritage.
“It is also important to understand that what the new authorities of the Republic of Senegal are doing, through the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, is only possible by combining cultural, environmental and tourist aspects,” he noted, reporting that these historic sites are going through a certain number of conservation difficulties.
”But the authorities are engaged at the highest level to enhance, give meaning, transmit and keep this historical memory and disseminate it so that the young generations can understand that we have nothing to envy to others,” said Bakary Sarr.
According to him, when we look at the way in which the megalithic sites are cut and moved, it will be necessary to understand that there have been techniques, and values that have participated in giving our historical continuities all values.
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