Research & Projects
Academic research, digital tools, and applied projects.
StoryChain — African Digital Storytelling Platform
An interactive digital archive exploring themes, animal symbols, and ethical frameworks in African storytelling. Database-driven dashboards surface m…
AfricanPedia — Illustrated Encyclopedia of the African World
A living atlas of African civilisations — kingdoms, tongues, cloths, and songs — spanning 54 nations, 250+ tongues, and 13,400 pages. Illustrated and…
African Digital Humanities Network
A collaborative platform connecting researchers, educators, and practitioners championing African Digital Humanities. Offers courses, training resour…
Voyant Tools Translation & Localisation Hub
An AI-driven reproducible workflow for translating digital humanities tools for underrepresented languages. Combines human expertise with AI translat…
Experimental Voyant Tools
A customised Voyant Tools instance featuring African literary corpora including Soyinka, with built-in corpora of canonical and African works for tex…
Voyant Tools for African Librarians Online
A hosted Voyant Tools instance for the African Librarians Online community enabling web-based reading and text analysis for researchers across Africa.
Recogito Studio — Collaborative Annotation
A self-hosted Recogito Studio instance for collaborative text and data annotation. Supports named entity recognition, place tagging, and team annotat…
Doccano — Text Annotation Platform
A self-hosted Doccano instance for sequence labelling, text classification, and relation extraction. Supports multiple annotation projects and team c…