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Featured African Digital Humanities Courses
Hand-picked learning experiences from our faculty — hosted on the ADH CourseHub.
Introduction to African Digital Humanities
A survey course exploring what Digital Humanities looks like in African scholarly and cultural contexts — text analysis, data modelling, digital archives, and network mapping through African case studies.
Enrol on CourseHubLLM-Augmented Text Analysis for African Digital Humanities
A 13-module practicum for DH scholars in Africa. Analyse African literary, historical, and archival texts using Voyant Tools with an integrated LLM companion — no prior programming required.
Enrol on CourseHubDeveloping Digital Humanities Projects in Africa
A project-oriented course taking DH ideas from conception to working product in African contexts — value-sensitive design, AI infrastructure, data governance, metadata, and user-centred UX.
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Tools, methods, and data science skills for the African DH practitioner.
Voyant Tools and Spyral: From Start to Intermediate
A structured journey from your first text analysis in Voyant Tools through to intermediate Spyral programming — core text-mining techniques, vocabulary analysis, and hands-on scripting.
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Spyral: Introductory
Introduction to the Spyral notebook environment — workspace setup, running code cells, saving and sharing notebooks, and the fundamentals of web-based DH research documentation.
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A practical introduction to data science for Digital Humanities — descriptive statistics, regression, clustering, geospatial analysis, and policy reasoning using real migration data.
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Exploring African Digital Humanities Using Voyant Tools
Corpora, Methods, and Classroom Practice
Edited by Augustine A. Farinola, Geoffrey Rockwell, Patience Emefa Dzandza Ocloo,
Ozioma Okey-Kalu, Reggemore Marongedze, Yohanna Woliya, Abel Ochika, and Joseph Kunnuji.
University of Alberta · 2026
A milestone in African Digital Humanities scholarship, this open-access volume brings together practitioners and researchers exploring how digital text-analysis tools can illuminate African corpora, languages, and cultural heritage.
2025 ADH Hackathon Participants
Congratulations to the 19 scholars who participated in the inaugural African Digital Humanities Hackathon and earned certification in Voyant Tools and computational text analysis.
Augustine Farinola
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