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Data modelling: Edi Ganzel’s serialised Swahili novels

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.

Taifa Weekly 1969 no.751. Showing Edi Ganzel’s ‘Mwito wa Hima!’, a serialised Swahili novel

Messy Data, Ephemeral Literatures, and the Future African Archive, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, 6 May 2026

Ashleigh Harris will present ALMEDA’s work with ‘Messy Data’ at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen at 15:00 on 6 May 2026. Abstract: A significant portion of African Literature and expressive cultures – from the late 19th century to the present – has been produced as print, audio, video,…

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Linked Open Data and the Future of the African Literary Archive, Campus Condorcet, Paris and Online, 10 April 14:00-16:00 CET.

Join us for a talk by Ashleigh Harris on the ways in which the ALMEDA project uses Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web to create sustainable data on African Literature and expressive culture.

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Locating Film in the Multiple Geographies of the Audiovisual Archive: 26 March 2026, Uppsala University

We are delighted to invite you to this symposium, which focuses on the ways in which audiovisual archives and film historiography in African and diasporic contexts are entangled with one another.   Bringing together film and screen media scholars, filmmakers, curators, and archivists, the symposium will explore the impact of…

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Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa: An Online Symposium, 12 March 2026

Join us for a symposium organised by ALMEDA postdoctoral fellow, Gloria Ajami Makokha, on the ‘Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa’.

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