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In response to recommendations made at expert meetings and appeals by the African Union, UNESCO launched Phase II of the GHA in 2009. In this phase of the project, UNESCO sought to renovate the teaching of history in Africa, in particular by highlighting the shared heritage and values of different African communities. The GHA's Phase II efforts are heavily informed by concepts of Global Africa, which acknowledges the relations between Africa and its multiple diasporic communities, in Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and Asia.
In 2009, UNESCO launched the Pedagogical Use of the General History of Africa project, which aims to incorporate the content of the GHA's first eight volumes into school curriculums, and to produce cartoons, comics, and radio programs for informal education. This project was undertaken in close collaboration with the African Union.
In 2013, the 37th session of UNESCO's General Conference authorized the Director-General to publish additional volumes of the GHA. In 2014, the Executive Board established the International Scientific Committee for the Preparation and Publication of Volume IX of the General History of Africa. As of 2020, three additional volumes are being drafted in order to update the original GHA collection on recent social, political, scientific, and archaeological developments, to analyze African diasporas, and to address new challenges facing Africa and its diasporas.
In 2015, UNESCO launched the International Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa, which aims to raise awareness of the GHA through art, and to encourage artists from Africa and its diaspora to draw on African history for artistic inspiration. As of 2020, more than 300 artists have joined the Coalition.
In Phase II, UNESCO partnerships with radio producers has resulted in the production of two radio programmes: Over the course of 2016 and 2017, Radio France Internationale (RFI) produced a series of 52 radio programmes titled "Memory of a Continent," and BBC World produced a 9-film series in 2017 and a 6-film series in 2019 on the GHA. The 15 BBC films were produced and directed by BBC journalist Zeinab Badawi.