Participants

33 participants4 Organisers2 Point Sud17 countries
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Organisers

Frédérick Madore

Frédérick Madore

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Frédérick Madore is a historian of Islam in Francophone West Africa and a Data Curator at the Cluster of Excellence "Africa Multiple," University of Bayreuth. His current work explores how AI and digital methods can transform the study of under-resourced African digital collections. He is developing the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), an open-access database of over 14,500 documents built on Omeka S. Using LLM-powered pipelines, he experiments with AI-assisted text extraction, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis to process large documentary collections—while critically examining the risks of algorithmic opacity and Western-centric bias. He was previously a Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin).

Vincent Hiribarren

Vincent Hiribarren

King's College London · United Kingdom

Vincent Hiribarren is a historian of West Africa and has worked on several digitisation programmes on the African continent. He has recently created an undergraduate module on Digital History and is interested in the relationship between African Studies, Digital Humanities and AI.

Emmanuel Ngue Um

Emmanuel Ngue Um

University of Yaoundé 1 · Cameroon

Emmanuel Ngue Um is an Associate Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé 1. His current research focuses on developing speech technologies and machine translation services to support the teaching and revitalisation of Africa's indigenous languages. He is also involved in developing an ecomuseum to preserve and promote a section of the colonial railway in Cameroon.

Menno van Zaanen

Menno van Zaanen

South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) · South Africa

Menno van Zaanen is a professor in Digital Humanities at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources. He is particularly interested in incorporating the use of computational techniques in the field of Humanities. His research background is in computer science and computational linguistics.

Point Sud Programme

The workshop is held under the DFG programme Point Sud, which funds it.

Participants

Aminata Kane

Cheikh Anta Diop University · Senegal

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Augustin Ndione

Cheikh Anta Diop University · Senegal

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Augustine A. Farinola

University of Alberta · Canada

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Benito Trollip

South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) · South Africa

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Bruno Allahissem

Leiden University · Netherlands

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Christine Mataranyika

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Durgesh Nandini

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Eliette Ngo Tjomb Assembe

University of Yaoundé 1 · Cameroon

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 14:00

Evelyne Amana

University of Yaoundé I · Cameroon

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Falimatou Pemgbou

University of Ebolowa · Cameroon

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Friederike Lüpke

University of Helsinki · Finland

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Hammed Olalekan Lawal

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Iginio Gagliardone

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Jelena Prokic

Leiden University · Netherlands

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Jiayu Yang

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

John Oluwafemi Daniel

University of Ibadan · Nigeria

Panel 7 · Thu 24 · 11:00

Joshua Ward

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Jules Mansaly

University of the Gambia · Gambia

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Karabo Mohapeloa

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Khaoula Stiti

Unaffiliated scholar · Tunisia

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Lauren Coetzee

University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Leonard Kibet Kirui

Moi University · Kenya

Panel 7 · Thu 24 · 11:00

Luca Bruls

Leiden University · Netherlands

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Lydia Kila Taban

Masakhane · South Africa

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 14:00

Matthew Sung

Leiden University · Netherlands

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Max Milella

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Mirjam de Bruijn

Leiden University · Netherlands

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Mohamadou Konaté

Joseph Ki-Zerbo University · Burkina Faso

Panel 7 · Thu 24 · 11:00

Oreen Yousuf

Uppsala University · Sweden

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Rachel Maina

University of Wisconsin–Madison · United States

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 14:00

Sanjin Muftić

University of Cape Town Libraries · South Africa

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Sarah Oberbichler

University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg

Keynote · Mon 21 · 14:00

Tajuddeen Gwadabe

Masakhane · Nigeria

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 14:00

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DH & AI in African Studies

21–24 September 2026
STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Key Dates

  • Submission Deadline
  • Notification of Acceptance
  • Deadline for Full Papers
  • Workshop Dates

Supported by

Point SudSTIAS — Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced StudyDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)Goethe University FrankfurtUniversity of Bayreuth / Africa MultipleKing's College LondonSADiLaR

© 2026 Frédérick Madore, Vincent Hiribarren, Emmanuel Ngue Um, Menno van Zaanen. Content under CC BY 4.0; paper titles, abstracts and biographies remain their authors'.