Gule Wamkulu

UNESCO ICH element 00142 — Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. State Party: Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Inscribed 2008 at 3.COM; originally proclaimed 2005 as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity and incorporated into the Representative List in 2008. Cite the PROCLAMATION year when the claim is "how long UNESCO has recognised this", and the INSCRIPTION year when the claim is about the Representative List. Read directly from the element page 2026-08-25. PRIMARY SOURCE for LODance style "gule-wamkulu" (publication_status=research). RIGHTS: the facts are free to use and cite. The official DESCRIPTION TEXT carries no licence statement on ich.unesco.org — UNESCO CC BY-SA IGO covers UNESDOC Open Access publications, NOT ICH element pages — so cite and paraphrase, do NOT paste it into a page and do NOT ingest it into the knowledge corpus until a licence is established. PHOTOGRAPHS are excluded from UNESCO's own CC terms and credited to named photographers: do NOT rehost them.