Egede, Edwin  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7889-8840
2025.
Nigeria.
Lowther, Jason, Sellick, Joanne and Williams, Mike, eds.
The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage National Approaches and Perspectives, 3rd edition,
Vol. 104.
Publications on Ocean Development,
[Nigeria].
Leiden/Boston:
Brill,
pp. 369-388.
(10.1163/9789004510883_017)
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Abstract
Although no historical Underwater Cultural Heritage(UCH) in line threshold required by the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (the 2001 Convention has yet been discovered in Nigerian waters, this is not to say it does not exist. At a global level, it has been estimated that there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, and that less than one per cent of these shipwrecks have been discovered and/or explored. As Nigeria has a rich seafaring history, as well as having played a significant role in the transatlantic slave trade, there is the potential for future discoveries to be made, including of shipwrecks, that fit within the 2001 Convention’s definition of UCH. For instance, there is a Slave History Museum in Calabar, that is located on the site of a fifteenth century slave-trading warehouse in Marina Beach, which was a significant embarkation point during the transatlantic slave trade. The ‘Slave Wrecks Project’ has estimated that about 1000 ships navigating the Atlantic were wrecked, and in 2015 confirmed the first documented discovery of a sunken slave ship known to have been carrying human cargo. Many of these wrecks remain undiscovered. In that connection, this chapter will first examine Nigeria’s participation in international treaties regulating UCH. It will then proceed to explore challenges in the domestic implementation of these treaties and examine the status of legislation that regulates UCH in Nigeria, before offering a series of reflections in the conclusion.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JX International law J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law > KZ Law of Nations |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-51087-6 |
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| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2025 15:15 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179426 |
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