{"id":169,"date":"2025-06-18T03:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:39:26","slug":"a-propos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/a-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AKB HERITAGE<\/b> is a consulting and cultural engineering firm<\/b> based in Senegal, dedicated to the preservation, promotion and enhancement of the cultural heritage of Africa and its diasporas.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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AKB HERITAGE<\/b>'s mission is to advise, support and connect African cultural heritage institutions and stakeholders<\/b> by offering comprehensive expertise rooted in the realities of the continent, to make heritage a true lever for sustainable development.<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Alyssa K. Barry was born and raised in Dakar. A graduate of the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure d'Architecture de Marseille<\/strong> (2016) and the \u00c9cole d'Urbanisme de Paris<\/strong> (2017), she has been conducting research and projects for over ten years on African cultural heritage and the link between culture and sustainable development within the cities and societies of the continent.<\/p>

After significant experiences at the Cultural Heritage Institute of Cabo Verde<\/strong> and then at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris<\/strong>, she settled in Dakar in 2022 where she worked as an independent consultant in the field of African cultural heritage. She collaborated with major institutions such as UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM,<\/strong> the African Heritage School (EPA)<\/strong> and Expertise France (AFD Group)<\/strong>.<\/p>

A lecturer at the University College of Architecture in Dakar<\/strong>, a doctoral student in anthropology at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar<\/strong> and involved in the international associative sector (Former Coordinator ICOMOS EPWG Africa<\/strong>, Secretary General ICOM Senegal, associate member ICOMOS ISCEAH<\/strong>), she is also the founder of AFREAKART<\/strong>, a platform dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas.<\/p>

In 2024, she founded AKB HERITAGE<\/strong>, a structure reflecting her journey: committed, rigorous, creative and firmly focused on transmission.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AKB HERITAGE AKB HERITAGE est un cabinet de conseil et d\u2019ing\u00e9nierie culturelle bas\u00e9 au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 la pr\u00e9servation, la promotion et la valorisation du patrimoine culturel d\u2019Afrique et de ses diasporas. Mission AKB HERITAGE a pour mission de conseiller, accompagner et connecter les institutions et les acteur.ice.s du patrimoine culturel africain en offrant une […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/akb-heritage.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}