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Two presentations on Multilingualism in the African Archive

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 and Nicklas will talk about his new project on the literary field of Nairobi. Follow the QR code in the poster attached if you wish to join in!

Research findings shared with community stakeholders in Mombasa

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…

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FEMRITE case study underway

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’…

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ALMEDA Annual Report 2025

Our Annual Report for 2025 is available here:

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The African Short Stories Online dataset: an interview with Gilbert Braspenning

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…

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