It is originally conceived in the African context because the continent encapsulates the historical inequities that characterise the modern and its associated notions of development and progress, whilst the highest rates of urbanisation demands equitable and sustainable futures on a planetary scale.

MoHoA aims to achieve a re-conceptualisation of ‘modern’ heritage that is relieved of Eurocentric, homogenous, universalising, developmental and colonial associations, reframes as an inherently plural and planetary phenomenon that heralded the Anthropocene.