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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Dr Hughes is the principal investigator, Professor Coombes the co-investigator and Professor Karega-Munene the lead consultant on this research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK (AHRC 2008–11). The British Academy funded a UK-Africa Partnership Scheme element of the research, carried out by Hughes and Karega-Munene. Dr Bohlin and Dr Carrier, contributors to this Special Issue, also contributed to the AHRC project, as desk-based and field-based consultants respectively. ‘Heritage of alms: sad plight of sub-Saharan states’, Mathias Ringa The East African 12 October 2009. It described an Africa 2009 programme directors' seminar in Mombasa. Viewed online at http://ea.nationmedia.com Ibid. Dr Bouchenaki heads the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). See Lane 2010 Lane, P. J. 2010. Developing landscape historical ecologies in Eastern Africa: an outline of current research and potential future directions. African Studies, 69(2): 299–322. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] and other articles in the Special Issue of African Studies 69(2) on ‘History and Archaeology in Conversation – South Africa meets East Africa Workshop’.