Biography
Caesar Bita is an Underwater and Marine Cultural Research Scientist working for National Museums of Kenya and is the Head of the Department of Coastal Archaeology at Fort Jesus Museum in Mombasa, Kenya. Trained in Professional Underwater Archaeology at the Underwater Archaeology Center in Beijing, China, he holds a Professional Diploma in Underwater Archaeology and is currently completing his PhD in Archaeology at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Bita has a Master’s Degree in Archaeology from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; a Postgraduate Diploma in Management of Heritage and Museum Collections and a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology both from the University of Nairobi. Caesar Bita has undertaken many underwater archaeological surveys including managing several underwater archaeological projects in Kenya and Tanzania. He has published severally on marine archaeology and underwater cultural heritage in many international journals and books. He too has presented papers in many international professional underwater archaeology conferences. In collaboration with UNESCO, he has managed and coordinated several sub-Saharan regional training workshops on underwater cultural heritage management. Currently, he is the underwater archaeologist for the National Museums of Kenya coordinating terrestrial and underwater archaeological research and underwater cultural heritage management in coastal Kenya. He is interested in the maritime and underwater archaeology of the Western Indian Ocean Seaboard, the archaeology of Africa and underwater cultural heritage management.