Recommended Africana DH Resources

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To date, there is a flourishing ecosystem of innovative DH research created by academics, independent scholars, and various organizations from the African continent and in the diaspora. Here are a few exemplary projects:

“To Enter Africa from America”: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1847-1919 - by Dr. Jeannette Jones, Nadia Nurhussein, Nemata Blyden, and John Cullen Gruesser

A Liberian Journey offers a look into the lives and landscapes transformed by the arrival of Firestone Plantations Company in Liberia.

Syliphone Discography, the flagship of the recording industry in Guinea during its 1st republic (1958 - 1984).

Livingstone Online is a digital museum and library that allows users to encounter the written, visual, and material legacies of the famous Victorian explorer, missionary, and abolitionist David Livingstone (1813-73).

One More Voice focuses on recovering non-European contributions from nineteenth-century British imperial and colonial archives.

The Global Du Bois brings together a series of data visualizations that challenge the long-held belief that W.E.B. Du Bois’s investment in decolonization is a later move in his intellectual trajectory.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.

Digital Nollywood preserves the history of Nigeria's film industry.

On These Grounds - Slavery & the University

Suggested DH-Related Texts:

Debates in the Digital Humanities (Klein & Gold, 2020)
Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers (Young, Morrone, Wilson, & Wilson, 2020)
New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Risam, 2018)
Debates in the Digital Humanities (Klein & Gold, 2016)

Conference Presentations in Africana DH

African Studies Association - 2020
Communication and the Generational Tech Gap (Sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York)
Frontiers in the Digital History of Slavery and Abolition
New Light on the Arabic Writings of Omar Ibn Said
Podcasts and the Study of Africa: A Digital Technology’s Impact on Research, Teaching, and Public Engagement
The Politics of the Archives: From the Print Era to the Digital Age Part I & II

The Ardhi Initiative project has been featured at the following conferences:

UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, DH Afternoons. (Nov 2019)

The Princeton African Humanities Colloquium: Africa & Digital Humanities. (Nov. 2020)

Conference on Land Policy in Africa, convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. (Nov. 2021)

UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, DH Afternoons. (Nov 2021)

Are you aware of (or currently conducting) exciting DH work that I should add to the list above? Kindly email notes, links, and/or suggestions to [email protected]