An investigation into the effectiveness of Kampala’s built heritage conservation practices; a case study of selected heritage buildings.
Abstract
Heritage is an important aspect of society that helps society especially in being evidence and
custodians of the history of the society. In this, heritage objects act as stores of past.
Kampala’s built heritage is left as one of the evidence of the city’s and the nation’s history;
the different heritage buildings stand to commemorate of the different events, periods and
occurrences in the city’s and country’s history at large.
Heritage buildings are never the less increasingly being threatened with being changed and
modified through conservation practices that are likely to diminish the symbolism of the
cultural and historical heritage that they commemorate.
This research was carried out to investigate the various heritage conservation practices that
are used in the city’s heritage buildings. The research therefore uses a case study approach
taking cases of the Bulange building and the Parliamentary building. The research also refers
from the international standards of built heritage conservation from the UNESCO as well as
referring to the fair practice of conservation from the Durban city hall of South Africa to
assess the effectiveness of the heritage buildings in Kampala.