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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We are delighted to announce that Miriam Osore of Kenyatta University, Kenya, has compiled and translated a list of Kiswahili literary terms for the ALMEDA project. The lexicon is available on our Zenodo page. Osore, Miriam Kenyani. ‘Kiswahili Lexicon of Literary Terms’. Zenodo, 17 November 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17628263.
ALMEDA researcher Nicklas Hållén has been granted funding for a 3-year project titled “Reading beyond the close/distant divide: Nairobi’s formal and informal literary field.” His project investigates how the informal and formal sectors of the literary field shape each other in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Hållén will explore ways of mapping how formally…