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’ residencies, publishing poetry and short stories, collaborating with schools and hosting literary festivals and book markets. The data collected primarily concerned their now-defunct literary magazines New Era (1997-2002) and Wordwrite (2002-2005), which were targeted to youth and adult audiences, respectively, but also included other material such as the organisation’s collaboration with visual artists. The material collected will help making visible the role of the organisation in the Ugandan and regional literary field.
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…
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Gilbert Braspenning has recently published a dataset of 902 online African short stories and had donated that data to the ALMEDA project for inclusion in our database. Online publishing of African short stories and poetry has increased significantly in the last decade with online small magazines, literary journals, and blogs…