The podcast for African #hip_hop
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/04/teaching-african-hip-hop-through-podcasting
Msia Kibona Clark is assistant professor of African Studies at Howard University. Her research focuses on in hip hop in Africa. Clark recently served as editor and contributor to Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati and has authored numerous articles on hip hop in Tanzania. At Howard, Clark teaches a course entitled…
The Nsibidi Institute #memory Project
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/06/the-nsibidi-institute-memory-project
In the previous installment of #THE_DIGITAL_ARCHIVE, we spotlighted Liberian Journeys, a digital nationalist history project, collecting key artifacts from the country’s complicated history and combining those with reflections from contemporary Liberians to convey the importance of preserving the nation’s history. And other projects featured in this series, like Nigerian Nostalgia, show the potential for more […]
A Cartographic Narrative–The 1760-1761 Slave Revolt in Jamaica
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/slave-revolt-in-jamaica-1760-1761-a-cartographic-narrative
In my opinion, spatial analysis represents one of the most compelling new modes of storytelling provided by the digital turn. David Bodenhamer noted the value of spatial analysis in an interview for.....
The Community Video Education Trust
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/10/the-community-video-education-trust
I’ve had a really hard time staying focused for the past couple of weeks, given the current protests in South Africa. Everytime I opened Twitter, I was bombarded by images and.....
Cowries and Rice
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/10/digitalarchive-no-21-cowries-and-rice
Studies of China in Africa and vice versa have begun to proliferate in recent years. Journalist Howard W. French‘s China’s Second Continent (2015) has earned critical acclaim from both popular and academic circles,.....
Digital Archive No. 20 – The Haiti Memory Project and the digitization of oral histories
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/10/digital-archive-no-20-the-haiti-memory-project
Thus far in this series, I haven’t really featured any digital oral history projects, which is a shame since there are so many great collections available. For historians and anthropologists alike, spoken.....
#DigitalArchives No. 19: ‘Claremont Histories’ and the preservation of nostalgia
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/digital-archive-no-19-claremont-histories
So far, a lot of what has been covered in this series has focused on digitized archival sources or social justice projects. The preservation of nostalgia has not received as.....
Digital Archive No. 16 — Nigerian Nostalgia
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Nigeria has gotten a lot of attention on this platform in the past few weeks, with the publication of a new e-book the week prior to the election of Muhammadu Buhari.....
Digital Archive No. 15 – Queering #slavery Working Group
▻http://africasacountry.com/digital-archive-no-15-queering-slavery-working-group
Since I first started out selecting digital projects for this series, I have been struck by the wide range of forms and types of digital projects that have been and.....
Digital Archive No. 14 – Digitizing #Ferguson
▻http://africasacountry.com/digital-archive-no-14-digitizing-ferguson
On March 4th, the Justice Department released an 86-page report of its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department. Though the report cleared Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown.....
Digital Archive No. 13 – Social History of the #Gambia
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Earlier this week, the Arts Beat of the New York Times ran a story announcing the British Library’s expansion of the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP). This announcement coincides with the ten.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Endangered_Archives_Programme #TECH/WEB
▻http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Gambia_broadcast.mp4
Digital Archive No. 12 – The African Rock Art Digital Archive
▻http://africasacountry.com/digital-archive-south-african-rock-art-digital-archive
Last summer, I got the chance to visit the Origins Museum on the University of the Witswatersrand campus in Johannesburg. A major feature of the Museum’s collection is an installation.....
Digital Archive No. 11 – #African_hip_hop
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This week I thought I’d try something a little different, inspired by some links I came across on Twitter. Earlier this week, John Edwin Mason tweeted a story from The.....
Digital Archive No. 10 – #African_Activist_Archive
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In the U.S., the past few months have showcased the power of social #activism in bringing awareness to injustices in the country. Social activism has a deep history in the States;.....
Digital Archive No. 9 – The #Winterton_Collection
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I absolutely love #PHOTOGRAPHY. This might be obvious from some of the choices I’ve made for previous editions of #THE_DIGITAL_ARCHIVE, like World War I Africa and Africa Through.....
Digital Archive No. 8 – World War I in Africa
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In honor of the centenary of the Great War, Jacques Enaudeau and Kathleen Bomani set out to bring attention to the forgotten story of Africa’s involvement in World War I......
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #THE_DIGITAL_ARCHIVE #World_War_I_Africa
Digital Archive No. 7 – #Slave_Biographies
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Last week, I discussed the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and two of its offshoot projects, the African Names Database and the African Origins Project. While the focus of my piece was.....
Digital Archive No. 6 – #Trans-Atlantic_Slave_Trade_Database
▻http://africasacountry.com/digital-archive-no-6-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-database
When I was first given the opportunity to write this weekly series, I reached out to a few friends and colleagues who work in the digital realm for suggestions on.....
The TASTD is a project with a long history, stretching into the 1960s when scholars first began to collect archival data on slave trade voyages and started coding them into a machine-readable format. Originally made available to scholars on CD-ROMS in the 1990s, the dataset was finally presented as an open access site in 2006 (...).
This site compiles data for nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, providing extensive open access metadata for each of the voyages, including additional sources to consult. The database also maps out the various stages of the vessel’s journey and provides any related images that might be available for that particular voyage.
Digital Archive No. 5–African Sources of Knowledge Digital Library
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Two weeks ago, I attended the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. As Sean mentioned in a previous post, a bunch of folks from #AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY.....
Digital Archive No. 4 – #Africa_Cartoons
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One of the first thing I do on Friday morning is log on to the Mail & Guardian website to see the latest from Zapiro. Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, is a Capetonian political and social cartoonist whose work not chronicles current events in South Africa, but also provides visual critiques of political leaders, […]
Digital Archive No. 3 – Nelson #Mandela_Digital_Archive Project
▻http://africasacountry.com/digital-archive-no-3-nelson-mandela-digital-archive-project
This week’s Digital Archive is inspired by Duane Jethro’s recent post on the Mandela Ray Ban Statue in Cape Town, in which he refers to this new art installation as “vandalism of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.” This is just the most recent in a string of excellent pieces which have forced a rethinking of the construction […]
Digital Archive No. 2 – #Africa_Through_a_Lens
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So last week, I wrote about Afrobarometer, a site featuring survey data from 35 African nations. Since the Afrobarometer is based among multiple continent-based partners, this week I wanted to feature a project that is based in the United Kingdom (in future weeks, expect projects based in the U.S., France, and a range of African nations). By varying […]
Digital Archive No. 1 – The #Afrobarometer
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A few weeks ago, at the North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa in Burlington, Vermont, I got a chance to participate in a roundtable on Digital Southern African Studies with Africa Is a Country’s Sean Jacobs. Sean asked me if I would be interested in starting a weekly series on digital African projects and I […]