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If you have any questions about the ALMEDA project, please feel free to contact us on almeda@uu.se.

You can find us at: Room 16-1065, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University. (Click the room number to get directions)

Postal address: P.O. Box 527, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Shipping address: Thunbergsvägen 3G, 752 38 Uppsala, Sweden

PI Ashleigh Harris

For any questions regarding the methods, activities and results of ALMEDA, please contact Ashleigh at ashleigh.harris@engelska.uu.se.

Room 16-1069, Campus Engelska Parken, Uppsala University. (Click the room number to get directions)

New postdoc to catalogue Khangas

The Khanga/Kanga/Leso is a traditional cotton cloth with mixed designs, colors and messages worn by women along the coastal regions of Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar. The popularization of the Khanga can be traced back to 1887, when the Kaderdina family founded the Hajee Essak Limited company, which pioneered the mass…

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Lecture: Flora Losch on West African audiovisual archives

Join us for the next lecture in the ALMEDA seminar series! Flora Losch (EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) will present her research on West African audiovisual archives – past and present. The lecture will be held on Zoom Time and Date: Wednesday 27 November, 13:15-14:45 CEST,…

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Popular Cultural Responses to Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Machakos Book Workshop

Between 1–4 October, team member Nicklas Hållén visited Machakos University, where he and Dr. Charles Kebaya ran a second of three planned PhD and MA student workshop on popular cultural production in Kenya. The student participants have been working diligently on six different projects which will be collected in a…

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Lecture: Afrikaaps and the Literary Archive, Riaan Oppelt

On Tuesday 15 October, our case-study researcher Riaan Oppelt (Stellenbosch University) gave a lecture on his ALMEDA case-study material. You can watch the lecture here:

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