2025 Symposium on African Digital Humanities
June 5-6, 2025
9:00AM - 5:00PM GMT
The University of Ghana–Legon
and online
Save the Date!
The University of Ghana and the University of Kansas are pleased to announce the 2025 Symposium on African Digital Humanities. This 5th iteration of the symposium marks the second consecutive year the event will be hosted at the University of Ghana in Accra. The symposium will also be streamed live to facilitate global participation.
The two-day symposium will feature panels, keynote addresses, and discussions exploring digital humanities from an African-centered perspective. Topics include Francophone digital humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Digitization and Metadata, Archives and Libraries, and Global South approaches to digital humanities.
Keynote Conversation
The symposium will open with a featured keynote dialogue between two distinguished scholars:
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Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Associate Professor of History at Howard University, and author of Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City
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Karen Ijumba, Senior Researcher at Open Restitution Africa
Pre-Symposium Librarians Workshop
On Wednesday, June 4, we will host a full-day workshop for academic librarians focused on international library collaboration.
More information about all events, including the complete program and registration details, will be available on this website soon.
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors for this year’s event:
University of Ghana
- School of Information & Communication Studies
- College of Education
University of Kansas
- Kansas African Studies Center
- KU Libraries
- Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics
- Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
- Department of African & African American Studies
Organizers
- Akosua Darkwah, University of Ghana
- Patience E. Dzandza Ocloo, University of Ghana
- Brian Rosenblum, University of Kansas
- James Yeku, University of Kansas