The World Monuments Fund has included the Africatown community on its 2022 World Monuments Watch, a selection of “25 of the world’s most significant heritage sites in need of immediate attention.”
Sites on the 2022 list include ancient structures such as the Mayan site Lamani in Belize, the Abydos site in Egypt and the Hitis water distribution system in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. The mix also includes more modern areas such as historic Beirut, heavily damaged by a port explosion in 2020; landmarks such as Hurst Castle in the United Kingdom; and “cultural landscapes” such as the home of the Bunong people in Cambodia.
“Commitment to elevating underrepresented heritage means more than identifying and preserving the material vestiges of peoples’ pasts,” says an. “In the case of Africatown in Mobile, Alabama, inclusion on the 2022 Watch will bring further visibility to a shameful episode in history.” In the video, Johnathan S. Bell, the Fund’s vice president of programs, says that the Fund “will work closely with new community partners to address these needs and develop local solutions that have global application.”Africatown International Design Idea Competition
Kemp-Rotan said the Fund’s aim is “to bring every possible resource that one has to bear in order to regenerate this community. The only community built by Africans in America in the 19th century after the Civil War.”
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