Affoh Guenneguez is an independent cultural heritage consultant from Côte d’Ivoire. For the past two years, she has been working with the African World Heritage Fund (South Africa) and the School of African Heritage (EPA - Bénin) on a capacity building programme that contributes to the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Africa and to a better representation of African properties on the World Heritage List. Prior to that, she was an associate project officer at the Africa Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Her work mainly focused on strengthening the role of local communities in the management of World Heritage sites. Affoh is also a specialist of the city of Grand-Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire. She is the author of a research paper entitled “The symbolic appropriation process of a former colonial town – case of the historic town of Grand-Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire” (accessible online in French), focusing on the perception and the use of colonial buildings by its inhabitants. She holds a Research Master’s degree in African Studies from Leiden University in the Netherlands.