The ALMEDA project is proud to be working with the NGO, FEMRITE (https://femrite.org) a Ugandan Women Writers’ Association that has inspired, supported and published African women writers from across the continent. FEMRITE has published numerous anthologies of poetry, short stories and Creative Non-Fiction, as well as novels, autobiographies, translations and magazines. It also hosts writers’ workshops, author evenings, readings, poster poetry exhibitions and many other events. We at ALMEDA look forward to cataloguing the rich body of work that has been enabled by FEMRITE. This collaboration will be part of researcher Erik Falk’s case-study on the ALMEDA project.
Join us for the next lecture in the ALMEDA seminar series! Riaan Oppelt (Stellenbosch University) will be talking about his case study for ALMEDA. The lecture will be held on Zoom: Time and Date: Tuesday 15 October, 15:15 – 16:30, CEST, online.Zoom Link: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/9544610031
ALMEDA will be offering two project-related PhD courses in 2025. One on the methods of Distant Reading and its implications for African Literature, and the other on Literary Metadata and the Digital Humanities and their importance for the future African literary archive. Please spread the word. These courses are free,…
La revue malienne _Sankoré_ pourrait être considérée comme reflétant un processus de valorisation des langues et littératures africaines dans le cadre du projet de décolonisation des années 1970. Sankoré – une revue de vulgarisation scientifique avec, entre autres, des sections consacrées aux nouvelles, légendes, proverbes, poèmes, devinettes, est un produit…
By Max van Loenen and Malin Runefelt During the spring of 2024, we collected metadata on African literary magazines published during the decolonization period of the 60s and 70s. ALMEDA creates data on and then links these ephemeral works. An important aspect of the collection process has been linking authors…