The African DH Lab brings together scholars, technologists and institutions to teach digital-humanities tools, publish open research, and grow a continental community of practice — from manuscript to publisher, and from workshop to showcase.
A connected platform for events, editorial publishing and community writing — built around open tools like Voyant and Spyral.
From manuscript to publisher-ready — peer review, Chicago-style editing, replication bundles and open-access publishing.
Editorial studio →Hackathons, workshops and editorial sprints delivered live on Zoom, with certificates and recordings.
See events →Stories, essays and field notes from the African DH community — from quick dispatches to long-form research write-ups.
Read the blog →Structured learning now lives on CourseHub — corpus building, Voyant, Spyral and reproducible research, self-paced and mentored.
Visit CourseHub →Corpora, methods, and classroom practice — peer-reviewed chapters spanning literary, legal and cultural corpora, tracked from manuscript to publisher-ready for the open-access 2026 edition.
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
Five days of practical training for African digital humanities scholars: agentic AI for research, Voyant with large language models, computational methods, African-language NLP, and a closing exhibition of participants' own work. On the final day five groups presented on five different open datasets — African film records on Wikidata, African languages in Glottolog, museum provenance data, UNESCO World Heritage classification, and the trans-Atlantic voyage record. None had coordinated their questions, and all five arrived at the same finding: what a dataset cannot say about African material is built into its categories, not missing from its rows. That work is now going forward as a proposed special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly. The 2027 edition is provisionally set for August 2027. Register your interest and we will write to you first.
We build an Africa-led ecosystem — defining what African Digital Humanities means, localising tools for African languages and datasets, and connecting technical experts with humanities scholars across the continent.
Join upcoming African Digital Humanities gatherings, lectures, and conversations.
Congratulations to the 19 scholars who completed the inaugural African Digital Humanities Hackathon and earned certification in Voyant Tools and computational text analysis.
AfroDH opened my eyes to a wealth of resources I never knew existed.
The trainings are top-notch and genuinely engaging — I built my first corpus in a week.
A must-visit hub for anyone working in African digital humanities.
