List of projects, organizations, and other resources related to digital humanities in, from, or about Africa.

  • ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata
    ALMEDA (African Literary Metadata) project is developing a new, multilingual metadata ontology and a linked open database for the large body of oral, expressive culture that is a major part of literary culture in Africa.

  • Accra Wala
    Accra Wala is a free, interactive website that seeks to rethink the way we represent, talk about, and engage with African cities. The project focuses on Accra, the capital of Ghana, located on the west coast of Africa. The site is a curated archive, which uses the routes of the trotro (grassroots public transport) system as a base for exploring how the vast majority of urban residents see and experience the city. The content of the archive is not only about transport, however. Trotros and lorry parks are just a way of connecting experiences and histories to the city in new ways.

  • Africa Cartoons
    Encyclopedia of African Political Cartooning

  • African Digital Heritage
    We are a Nairobi based, non profit organization working to encourage a more critical, holistic and knowledge-based approach to digital solutions within African heritage. Through this, we hope to cement the place of African culture in an era of rapidly changing technologies and endless frontiers.

  • Archivi.ng
    Explore thousands of digitized Nigerian newspaper pages from 1994 - 2008. This project aims to capture not only a snapshot of Nigeria’s political, social and cultural history, but also to create an open resource for the public, researchers and journalists.

  • Biafran War Memories
    Biafran War Memories is a digital archive of first-hand accounts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. The personal stories of people who remember the war and some who lived through it are here.

  • Brittle Paper
    Brittle Paper is an online literary magazine for readers of African Literature. We are Africa’s premier online literary brand inspiring readers to explore and celebrate African literary experiences in all its diversity.

  • Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos (CEDHUL)
    The first full-fledged, stand-alone Digital Humanities Centre in Africa

  • Digital Humanities Association of Southern African (DHASA)
    The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) was established in April 2016 to promote the understanding and practice of digital approaches to humanities scholarship across the southern African region.

  • Digital Nollywood
    Digital Nollywood is an ongoing digital project established in 2018 to preserve the material history of the film medium in Nigeria, particularly Nollywood, the video-film industry that emerged in the 1990s.

  • Global Poetics Project
    The Global Poetics Project is foremost dedicated to the print worlds, poetry, and poetics from what has been referred to as the Global South/ Third-World/ Postcolonial world, as well as multiethnic poetry. The GPP has a focus on post-1960s poetry, with its archives and exhibits emphasizing the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and its poet mapping and archiving leaning more closely to the 21st century. As the name GPP suggests, this lab is invested in engaging with poetry from around the world in whatever forms or mediums it may appear.

  • Migration Stories: Africans in Midwestern Communities
    Migration Stories seeks to gather stories in various forms about both the experience of immigration for Africans and the impact of changing demographics for Midwestern communities.

  • Network for Digital Humanities in Africa
    The Network for Digital Humanities in Africa was born out of the workshop Digital Humanities: the perspective of Africa, a satellite event of DH2019.

  • Nigerian Nostalgia Project
    NNP collects, categorizes, reformats and repackages Nigerian legacy information for both preservation and distribution employing a combination of technology tools and social networks to perform each of the activities

  • Onitsha Market Literature Collection, University of Kansas
    Onitsha Market Literature consists of stories, plays, advice and moral discourses published primarily in the 1960s by local presses in the lively market town of Onitsha, an important commercial site in the Igbo-speaking region of southeastern Nigeria. Twenty-one pamphlets from Onitsha Market appear here fully digitized and annotated to exemplify styles of expression found in this intriguing form of African popular literature.

  • Open Restitution Africa
    The Open Restitution Project is an Africa-led project seeking to open up access to information on the restitution of African material culture and human ancestors, to empower all stakeholders involved to make knowledge-based decisions.

  • Poetry Africa Digital Map
    The Poetry Africa Digital Map is an interactive database of the poets who have performed at Poetry Africa Festival since its inception in 1997, and the funders and partners who have made this unparalleled showcase of artistry possible.

  • Pulaar Islamic Texts: Six Archives of the Taal Families in Senegal and Mali
    The project intends to collect and digitise Pulaar Ajami (Pulaar language in Arabic script) and Arabic endangered manuscripts written by some of the most influential Haalpulaar (speakers of Pulaar) Islamic scholars of the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The project aims to digitise a total of 6,000 pages of text. About 3,500 will be in Senegal and 2,500 in Mali. On completion, the project will provide easily accessible resources that will improve the quality of scholarly research adn make available teaching materials on Muslim West Africa in general and the Haalpulaar history, language, society and culture in particular.

  • SADiLaR
    The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is a national centre supported by the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI).SADiLaR has an enabling function, with a focus on all official languages of South Africa, supporting research and development in the domains of language technologies and language-related studies in the humanities and social sciences.

  • Sekuru's Stories
    Sekuru’s Stories is a digital public humanities project featuring the renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba. Bringing Sekuru Chigamba’s oral narratives, or nhoroondo, together with recordings, photographs, and maps, it presents Zimbabwean musical and cultural heritage in an interactive format.

  • The Museum of British Colonialism
    We aspire to change the narrative around British colonialism and its legacies. In the long-term, we hope to facilitate conversations around the research of British colonialism through acting as a repository for digital archives.

  • YorubaName.com
    YorubaName.com is an online intervention to preserve and document all Yorùbá names in a multimedia format. It is part of a long-term project to document all types of African cultural experiences on the internet as a way of ensuring the survival of African identities in their various expressions.