Join us for a symposium organised by ALMEDA postdoctoral fellow, Gloria Ajami Makokha, on the ‘Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa’.
We are delighted to announce that AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions) and ALMEDA have formalised a collaboration in which ALMEDA will create an online course for AfLIA members titled ‘From Collections to Data Publications: a workflow for Librarians and Archivists’. The course aims to train librarians and…
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…