Edi Ganzel was a prolific writer of serialised novels in late 1960s and early 1970s Tanzania. Ursula Oberst has been using his work in Kenyan magazine Taifa Weekly to model serialised fiction in our metadata ontology. Give her feedback and see her current modelling on our Wikidata project site.
Image: Taifa Weekly 1969 no.751. Showing Edi Ganzel’s ‘Mwito wa Hima!’, a serialised Swahili novel.
Ashleigh Harris has a new ALMEDA pamphlet reflecting on the problems and potentials of AI in and for the field of African Literary Studies. Harris will be participating at the Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies organised by Frédérick Madore, Vincent Hiribarren in Hanover in February,…
The ALMEDA project is committed to a broad multilingual framework, not only to ensure excellent and substantial multilingual inclusion across as many African languages as possible (see our work with literary lexicons), but also to provide data on African literature’s global movements and circulation in non-African languages. To this purpose,…
Our latest lexicon of literary terms has just been published by Maurice Simbili Mwichuli, Kenyatta University. All ALMEDA’s data and lexicon publications are open for download and reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4 Licence. If you are a linguist or literary scholar working in an African language and are…
We are delighted to be joined by Anna Marie Skråmestø Nesheim who has received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project ‘Monetizing Performance Culture in French North and West Africa’. The project examines how the introduction of copyright systems affected the production of African performing arts in the…