Exploring African Digital Humanities: A Curated Reading List
Jun 23, 2025 · Augustine_Farinola
Exploring African Digital Humanities: A Curated Reading List
As digital technologies continue to shape academic research, the field of African Digital Humanities offers exciting opportunities for scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. This interdisciplinary domain delves into the intersection of technology and African cultural, historical, and social studies, opening new pathways for understanding and preserving the continent’s rich heritage.
To guide those interested in this dynamic field, we’ve curated a comprehensive reading list, including key journals, books, and projects by notable contributors.
📚 Journals
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Farinola, Augustine
“Digital Humanities Scholarship in Africa: Prospects and Challenges.” DH2020 Conference, organised by The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (July 2020).
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Limb, Peter
“The digitization of Africa.” Africa Today (2005): 3-19.
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Mutula, Stephen
“Challenges of doing research in sub-Saharan African universities: digital scholarship opportunities.”
Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 1 (2009).
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Robinson, Marsha R.
“New electronic journals and early pan-Africanist dreams: an annotated bibliography of selected resources in pan-African studies.”
Journal of Pan African Studies 5, no. 9 (2013): 171-188.
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Gallon, Kim
“Making a case for the black digital humanities.”
Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016): 42-49.
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Hart, Jennifer
“Introduction: Digital History in African Studies.”
History in Africa 47 (2020): 269-274.
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Alegi, Peter
“Podcasting the past: Africa past and present and (South) African history in the digital age.”
South African Historical Journal 64, no. 2 (2012): 206-220.
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Ash, James, Rob Kitchin, and Agnieszka Leszczynski
“Digital turn, digital geographies?”
Progress in Human Geography 42, no. 1 (2018): 25-43.
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Yeku, James
“Deference to Paper: Textuality, Materiality, and Literary Digital Humanities in Africa.”
Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 10, no. 1 (2020).
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🔚 Conclusion
This reading list and project showcase offer a gateway to exploring the multifaceted domain of African Digital Humanities. By engaging with these resources and projects, readers can gain a deeper understanding of how digital technologies intersect with African studies, preserving cultural heritage, and advancing scholarship.
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