Staffrider was a South African literary magazine that ran in 37 numbers from 1978 to 1993, published by Raven Press, Johannesburg. The magazine has been digitised and made freely available by Digital Innovation South Africa at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (see the full collection here)
The ALMEDA project is cataloguing each individual literary contribution to Staffrider. By making individual contributions visible and searchable in our metadata, we hope to give a better representation of the hundreds of excellent poets, short story writers, dramatists and novelists who were contributing to the magazine during these crucial 25 years of apartheid South Africa. The full dataset is available on request.
ALMEDA’s Gloria Ajami Makokha held a Majina ya Khanga/Leso Awareness and Publicization Drive at Kenyatta University’s Mombasa Campus on 23rd December 2025, funded by the British Institute in Eastern Africa’s Impact Grant Award. The event, in which Makokha’s research findings from field work in the region were shared with her…
Ashleigh Harris and Nicklas Hållén will both present their recent research at the “Lost & Found” Archives and Multilingualism in the (Post)Colony, to be held at the University of Liège on 12 January. Ashleigh will address how the ALMEDA project is working on a multilingual ontology for its knowledge model…
ALMEDA case researcher Erik Falk, visited Kampala and the site of FEMRITE, Uganda Women Writers Association, 17-26 November to collect data on the organisations formal and informal publications. FEMRITE, which will celebrate 30 years of work in 2026, is active across the literary field by organising poetry clubs and writers’…
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