Digital Curations
The Kingdom of Bamoun
Innovation, Urbanization, and Legacy
Comfort in Diversity
Beads and Body Adornments in Kenya
Marriage and Beads
The Turkana Community
Using digital storytelling to explore Africa’s past
i.dig.africa is a collaborative virtual space for the exploration of knowledge about Africa’s histories through digital storytelling. We have curated several StoryMaps that speak to a diverse range of themes in Africa’s past and present, using objects, images, maps, artworks and other research materials.
i.dig.africa has grown out of the AHRC-funded project, ‘Reframing the African past: Using museum collections and digital storytelling to increase accessibility for and participation by low-resource audiences’ (2024–25), the NEH-and-AHRC-funded project, ‘Digital storytelling on African urbanisms: A model to empower education initiatives across the Global South’ (2022–23), and the metsemegologolo project on African urbanisms funded under the Mellon ‘Digital Humanities’ programme (2019–2022).
Innovation, Urbanization, and Legacy
Beads and Body Adornments in Kenya
The Turkana Community
iNkosi Dingane kaSenkangakhona's capital 1829–1838
Of slavery and transoceanic trade 500 years ago
A biography through Q&A
The “Reframing the African Past: using museum collections and digital storytelling to increase accessibility for and participation by low-resource audiences” project is a 2023 - 2024 AHRC research grant awarded jointly to the University of Cambridge (Dr. Stefania Merlo, PI) and University of Arkansas (Dr. Carla Klehm, Co-PI). The 'Reframing the African past' project is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/Y00597X/1].