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32 participants 4 Organisers 15 countries

Organisers

Frédérick Madore

Organizer

University of Bayreuth

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).

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Vincent Hiribarren

Organizer

King's College London

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.

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Emmanuel Ngue Um

Organizer

University of Yaoundé 1

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.

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Menno van Zaanen

Organizer

South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)

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.

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Aminata Kane

Cheikh Anta Diop University · Senegal

Les manuscrits ajami à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle : enjeux épistémiques, infrastructures numériques et savoirs africains

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Augustin Ndione

Cheikh Anta Diop University · Senegal

Les manuscrits ajami à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle : enjeux épistémiques, infrastructures numériques et savoirs africains

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Augustine A. Farinola

University of Alberta · Canada

Moral Ecology of African Folktales: Grounding Digital Humanities in African Knowledge Systems

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Benito Trollip

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

Preserving Linguistic Memory through FAIR Practices: Lessons from SADiLaR and Ibali

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Bruno Allahissem

Leiden University · Netherlands

Fulani Networks: A Computational Ethnography of Social Media in the Sahel

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Christine Mataranyika

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), Citation Practices, and the Empirical Measurement of Knowledge Decolonisation: A Computational Approach

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Durgesh Nandini

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Beyond Keywords: Entity Linking for Cross-Database Discovery in African Studies

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Eliette Ngo Tjomb Assembe

University of Yaoundé 1 · Cameroon

Traduire sans équivalence : enjeux épistémologiques du transfert linguistique dans un système de traduction automatique à base de règles pour la paire français-ewondo

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Evelyne Amana

University of Yaoundé I · Cameroon

Recherche en sciences sociales et pérennisation des langues africaines à l’ère du numérique

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Falimatou Pemgbou

University of Ebolowa · Cameroon

L’émotion par le non-dit : pour une stratégie d’annotation des émotions chez le personnage de Ramatoulaye dans Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Friederike Lüpke

University of Helsinki · Finland

AI for the ‘Alphabet without borders’: Piloting generative AI for adaptive multilingual literacy materials in the LILIEMA programme in Senegal

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Hammed Olalekan Lawal

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Re-coding the Yorùbá Epistemologies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Relational Ethnography of AI-Generated Videos of Ìtàn Ìjàpá, its Creator and Viewers on Facebook and TikTok

Panel 1 · Mon 21 · 11:00

Iginio Gagliardone

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), Citation Practices, and the Empirical Measurement of Knowledge Decolonisation: A Computational Approach

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Jelena Prokic

Leiden University · Netherlands

Fulani Networks: A Computational Ethnography of Social Media in the Sahel

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Jiayu Yang

University of Bayreuth · Germany

Beyond Keywords: Entity Linking for Cross-Database Discovery in African Studies

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

John Oluwafemi Daniel

University of Ibadan · Nigeria

Digital Humanities and the “Town Question” in Nigerian History: Accessibility, Co-Production, and Sustainable Infrastructures from a Nigerian Perspective

Panel 7 · Thu 24 · 11:00

Jules Mansaly

University of the Gambia · Gambia

AI for the ‘Alphabet without borders’: Piloting generative AI for adaptive multilingual literacy materials in the LILIEMA programme in Senegal

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Karabo Mohapeloa

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), Citation Practices, and the Empirical Measurement of Knowledge Decolonisation: A Computational Approach

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Khaoula Stiti

Unaffiliated scholar · Tunisia

Before the Algorithm: Decolonial Computing as a Methodological Prerequisite for AI-Assisted Heritage Research in Africa

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Lauren Coetzee

University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg

Beyond the Readable Archive: Historical Codebooks, Large Language Models, and the Precolonial African Bead Trade, 1500–1900

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Leonard Kibet Kirui

Moi University · Kenya

Frugal Infrastructures and South-South Ecologies for Sustainable Digital Research in African Humanities

Panel 7 · Thu 24 · 11:00

Luca Bruls

Leiden University · Netherlands

Fulani Networks: A Computational Ethnography of Social Media in the Sahel

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Lydia Kila Taban

Masakhane · South Africa

From Data to Impact: A 4D Framework for Scaling Language AI Across African Languages

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Matthew Sung

Leiden University · Netherlands

Fulani Networks: A Computational Ethnography of Social Media in the Sahel

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Max Milella

University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), Citation Practices, and the Empirical Measurement of Knowledge Decolonisation: A Computational Approach

Panel 2 · Mon 21 · 16:00

Mirjam de Bruijn

Leiden University · Netherlands

Fulani Networks: A Computational Ethnography of Social Media in the Sahel

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Mohamadou Konaté

Joseph Ki-Zerbo University · Burkina Faso

L’IA générique face aux réalités africaines : défis structurels et voies alternatives pour la recherche en cybersécurité au Burkina Faso

Panel 7 · Thu 24 · 11:00

Oreen Yousuf

Uppsala University · Sweden

Building NLP/HTR Infrastructure for Ajami Manuscripts

Panel 6 · Wed 23 · 11:00

Rachel Maina

University of Wisconsin–Madison · United States

Designing Multimodal CALL for African Languages: Pedagogical Innovation Under Infrastructural Constraint

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

Sanjin Muftić

University of Cape Town Libraries · South Africa

Enriching the Invisible: AI-Assisted Metadata Generation and the Findability of Southern African Heritage Collections

Panel 3 · Tue 22 · 09:00

Preserving Linguistic Memory through FAIR Practices: Lessons from SADiLaR and Ibali

Panel 5 · Wed 23 · 09:00

Sarah Oberbichler

University of Luxembourg · Luxembourg

Sustainable and Responsible AI Workflows in History from a Global Perspective

Keynote · Mon 21 · 14:00

Tajuddeen Gwadabe

Masakhane · South Africa

From Data to Impact: A 4D Framework for Scaling Language AI Across African Languages

Panel 4 · Tue 22 · 11:00

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