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Felix Bayode Oke
from Nigeria – Anchor University Lagos
I am a doctoral candidate from University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a lecturer of Languages and Linguistics at Anchor University Lagos, Nigeria. My research interest bothers on the intersection between Language Studies and digital software. In my on-going doctoral thesis on “Construction of Identity and Ideology in Nigerian News Reports on Boko Haram Insurgency”, I have been able to show the trajectory of News Discourse, Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Digital Humanities in terrorism discourse. In addition, I work on digital festivals in Nigeria. This connects with cultural analytics and digital humanities.
Keywords: Digital Heritage, cultural analytics, Tempo-spatial modelling, Linguistic Landscape, media studies
Richard Ajah
from Nigeria – University of Uyo
Richard Ajah teaches French language, African literature and cultural studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Uyo, Nigeria. He graduated with a B.A (First-Class Hons) as University Valedictorian and obtained his PhD from University of Ibadan, Nigeria in travel writing as ETF Scholar. He is a published poet and literary critic. He enjoys writing, reading and traveling.
Literary studies, cultural studies and Digital Humanities scholarship in the areas of computer-assisted literary analysis (CALA), “pictographic” criticism, electronic literature and material cultures.
Keywords: CALA, Electronic literature, Pictographics
Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele
from Nigeria – Bowen University Iwo Osun State
My Doctor of Philosophy research on climate change communication was completed in 2017 at the Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, where I also had my B.A. and M.A. degrees in 2009 and 2012 respectively. I teach development communication and communication studies and conduct research on climate change, risk, health, and environmental communication.
My research interests broadly lie in environmental communication, health communication, climate change communication, and risk communication. I look at access to and accessibility of information, perception, knowledge, attitude and practices resulting from exposure to media contents. On digital humanity, I focus on digital environmental humanity.
Keywords: Communication, risk, climate change, environment, health
Augustine Farinola
from United Kingdom – University of Birmingham
Augustine is currently a PhD Researcher at the Department of English Literature, College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He had his B.A (First Class Honours) and M.A in Philosophy of Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has taught Philosophy and Digital Courses to undergraduate students in Nigeria, and worked over the past years as ICT Manager, Computer Tutor, Information Officer, and IT Research Assistance. His current research focuses on post phenomenological analysis of Digital Humanities (DH) Technological tools used for Scholarly Communication and Linguistic Analysis.
Keywords: Digital Humanities, Posthumanism, Phenomenology
Thembelihle Hwalima
from Zimbabwe – Gwanda State University
Senior Assistant Librarian heading the Gwanda State University Library in Zimbabwe. Former faculty librarian for Commerce and Institutional Repository (IR) Manager at Lupane State University Library in Zimbabwe. Co-developer of a framework for librarians on research data management for developing countries in the Africa Open Science Platform Project (AOSP); qualified librarian with 7 years work experience in an academic and research library setting and is an expert in faculty liaison work, Information Literacy training, Institutional Repository management and research support. Holds a masters in Library and Information Science from NUST (Zim), Honours degree in Library and Information science from UKZN and Bachelor’s degree in Library & Information Science from UFH. Thembelihle has presented papers at COVIP2019, CARLIGH 2018 and IDW 2018 and facilitated workshops on Research Data Management.
Keywords: research data management, research support, academic libraries, digital humanities
Sarah Schäfer
from South Africa – University of the Western Cape
During my postgraduate studies, my primary research was in the digital transformation of museums and cultural heritage institutions in South Africa, and my research used a small museum in an isolated part of South Africa as my case study. I am currently working at the University of the Western Cape as a Research Data Specialist and Digital Curator.
Keywords: Digital humanities, cultural heritage, GLAM, Research Data Management
Akwasi Bosompem Boateng
from Ghana, working at North-West University, South Africa
Akwasi’s current research explores the use of social media especially by the youth in South Africa for political participation and engagements. It investigates how new communication technologies promote democracy especially in elections.
Keywords: Political communication, social media, public relations, development communication and crisis management
Robert Tweheyo
from Uganda – Kyambogo University
Robert holds a Ph.D. in Social Interventions. He is a faculty member at Kyambogo University (Kampala) in the Department of Sociology and Social Administration. His research interests are in indigenous knowledge, food security, decision-making practices, and social policy analysis.
Keywords: Indigenous knowledge, food security practices, engaged scholarship
Ingrid Thomson
from South Africa – University of Cape Town Libraries
I am a Humanities Librarian with liaison responsibilities for a number of Humanities departments, including History, Linguistics, Film and Media and Librarianship. As part of my duties, provide support for research in a number of the Humanities Department. I have a particular interest in DH and how libraries support it, as well as how DH and Wikipedia intersects.
Keywords: DH, Wikipedia, Librarianship
Leah Junck
from South Africa – University of Cape Town
Leah Davina Junck is a Social Anthropology PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has also previously worked in journalism as well as at the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Leah is passionate about observing all kinds of social unfoldings and about cross-disciplinary work.
Keywords: Digital applications, artificial intelligence, intimacy, immigration, gender and minority rights
Sarah Kaddu
from Uganda – Makerere University
Sarah holds a PhD in information Science. Currently, a Library & Information Science Educator in Uganda.
Research interests: Digitising Uganda’s cultural heritage. The majority of Uganda’s population are the youth, and they prefer accessing digital content as opposed to print. The majority of the youth are either scholars or researchers. Having Uganda’s heritage digitized shall enable access and utilisation. It has been noted that most of Uganda’s heritage was either not preserved nor digitized. Some of the very unique Ugandan heritage is in the hands of the elders: when they die, with them al this heritage will be gone, hence there is the need to collect and digitize it so that it can be accessed and preserved.
Keywords: Cultural heritage, Digitisation
Ayantayo Joshua Sunday
from Nigeria – Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Ondo State
I hold a BA in Linguistics from the University of Ilorin, an MA in Linguistics from the University of Ibadan and I am currently doing a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Ibadan.
I am working on the ideological representation of herdsmen discourse in Nigerian media. I am investigating how media is representing social actors in the discourse, using concealment strategies and contextual variables to generate meanings and thereby form different ideologies. With this, I am also interrogating the implications of these ideologies for society.
Keywords: Media, conflict and interactional discourse
Sara Petrollino
from Italy – Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands.
Sara Petrollino is university lecturer at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands. She works on languages of East Africa, with a focus on language description and anthropological linguistics. She has been involved in various digital humanities events, see for example the workshop Digital Humanities: the perspective of Africa at the Lorentz Center, the panel on African languages and digital humanities at DH2019, and the Africa forum at DH2020.
Keywords: African languages; Anthropological Linguistics, LT4ALL (Language technologies for All)
Emmanuel Ngué Um
from Cameroon – University of Yaoundé I (tenure), University of Ngaoundéré (appointment) and CERDOTOLA (Consultancy)
Associate Professor in Linguistics; Head of the Department of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at ENS Bertoua (Cameroon); Director of the Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa (ALORA); Member of the Governance Committee of ELP; Member of the Committee of HumaNum.
My research interests lie at the intersection of languages, cultures, and technology. I have initial training in descriptive linguistics with primary focus on Bantu languages.
Keywords: Language, Culture, Technology, Africa
Chao Tayiana Maina
from Kenya – African Digital Heritage
Chao is a digital heritage specialist and digital humanities scholar from Kenya. She is the founder of African Digital Heritage and co-founder at Museum of British Colonialism.
I am currently interested in exploring themes around data, repatriation, community participation and open access within digital heritage. My previous research projects have included, ‘Embedding intangible histories in 3D visualisations’ (2017), ‘Community co-production in visualising suppressed histories using 3D visualisations – The case of detention camps in Kenya’ (2019)
Keywords: digital visualisations, repatriation, community participation, open access
Azeb Amha
from The Netherlands – African Studies Center Leiden, Leiden University
Azeb Amha (PhD from Leiden University) is a researcher and lecturer at the African Studies Center Leiden, Leiden University. She is interested in language documentation and description and in linguistic typology. She set-up extensive archives with audio-visual material and annotated text documenting the languages and cultures of a number of Omotic languages in Ethiopia. Her publications include a grammar of Maale, several papers on Omotic languages and three co-edited books.
Keywords: language-culture interface, expressions of greetings and felicitations, morpho-syntax
Nancy Henaku
from US – Michigan Technological University
I hold a PhD in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture and a masters in English Studies. I am interested in digital rhetorics/discourses from African contexts.
I am interested in the intersection between digital, rhetorical and discourse research.
Merosobo Lawson-Ikuru
from Nigeria – University of Uyo and Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic
I am a final year PhD candidate at University of Uyo , preparing for the defence of my dissertation. I also teach in Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic.
My research interest is in language description and documentation. I am currently working on a tonal description of Ogbia, a poorly described and undocumented language.
Keywords: Language Description, Documentation, Tone and Grammar
Sree Ganesh Thotempudi
from Germany – SADiLaR
Research interests: Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Data science, Machine Learning, Literature
Juan Steyn
from South Africa – SADiLaR
Juan Steyn is the Project Manager at SADiLaR. He has been involved in multiple Digital Humanities and Educational technology related projects. He also has a special interest in training and capacity building through his involvement within the Software and Data carpentry community as well as the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations.
Keywords: Minimal computing; capacity building; impact measurement
Ayodele James Akinola
from Nigeria – Chrisland University, Abeokuta; CEDHUL
Ayodele James Akinola is an early career researcher in DH, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Cultural Studies. He is a PhD (English Language) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; and an emerging researcher with publications in Computer-mediated communication, pragmatics, rhetoric and digital humanities. He lectures at Chrisland University, Abeokuta; and serves as programme officer (volunteer) at the University of Lagos’ Centre for Digital Humanities (CEDHUL) in Nigeria.
Keywords: DH, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Cultural Studies
Franziska Pannach
from Germany/South Africa – University of Göttingen
I am a PhD Student in Digital Humanities/Computational Linguistics with a focus on narrative pattern extraction from folktales and mythological texts. I am also interested in automatic or semi-automatic knowledge extraction, semantic web and ontologies for cultural heritage. My research also includes NLP tasks for under-resourced languages and domain.
Keywords: Digital Humanities, NLP, Computational Folkloristics
Dhanashree Thorat
from United States – Mississippi State University
Dr. Dhanashree Thorat is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University. She is a founding Executive Council member of the Center for Digital Humanities, Pune in India and serves as the lead organizer for a biennial winter school on Digital Humanities.
My research is situated at the intersection of Asian American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Digital Humanities. I examines how colonial and racial ideologies shape the technological imagination, specifically in technical infrastructures, platforms, and policies.
Keywords: Postcolonial digital humanities
Niklas Zimmer
from South Africa – University of Cape Town
I manage the Digital Library Services department at UCT Libraries. We are an institution-wide service and a GLAM Lab, providing digitisation, data curation, digital preservation, RDM, digital scholarship and GIS services. We service both the STEM and the HASS communities, providing a wide portfolio of hard- and software for managing, preserving and publishing data. Our highly engaged team has expertise in a wide range of areas, and provide services and infrastructure for the whole university community.
Keywords: Data Stewardship, RDM, Digital Preservation, Digital Scholarship, Digital Humanities
Modupe Roseline Agunbiade
from Nigeria – Federal University of Technology, Akure
Modupe Roseline Agunbiade is a postgraduate student of English Language at The University of Ibadan, Nigeria and works at Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Modupe had B.A.(First Class Hons) in English.
Modupe’s research interest is broadly on Computer Mediated Communication. She focuses on Discourse Strategies of the Multilinguals in a Digital Environment (social media).
Keywords: Computer-Mediated-Communication, Multilingual, Discourse Strategies, Cybercrime
Fasanmi Success Ayodeji
from Nigeria – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
An academic and a researcher in higher education administration with interest in the area of internationalisation of higher education, quality assurance in higher education, politics of education, policy analysis.
My research is on internationalisation of higher education which is concerned with incorporation of international dimension into the purpose and delivery of higher education. Some elements of internationalisation of higher education include academic exchange, staff mobility, research collaboration among others.
Keywords: Internationalisation of higher education, politics of education, graduate employability, quality assurance in higher education.
Rotimi Taiwo
from Nigeria – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
Rotimi Taiwo is a professor of English Language at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. His research interests are New Media Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Pragmatics and Lexical Studies. He is currently the Editor, Journal of English Scholars Association of Nigeria (JESAN) and the Head, Department of English of his university.
Critical investigation of online discourses, such as those that take place in blogs, discussion forum, Twitter and SMS text messages. I use approaches related to socio-semiotics, socio-cognitive, such as critical discourse and computer mediated discourse approaches.
Keywords: Computer-mediated, political, media and religious discourses
Idayat Modupe Lamidi
from Nigeria – Kola Daisi University, Ibadan.
Idayat Modupe Lamidi obtained her B.A, M.A, and Ph.D degrees in English (language emphasis) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She currently lectures at the Department of English and Literary Studies, Kola Daisi University, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Dupe Lamidi has been carrying out research in the area of computer-mediated discourse . Her doctoral programme is centered on the discourse practices in a virtual community; contributing to knowledge on international behaviours of netizens in relation to the Nigerian real-world.
Keywords: Netlinguistics, medical discourse and computer-mediated conversation analysis.
Mirjam de Bruijn
from The Netherlands – Leiden University.
I am professor of African studies at Leiden University. Director of the foundation www.voice4thought.org. Editor of the publication platform Bridging Humanities.
I work mainly in West and Central Africa. Interested in the relation between Communication an Information Technologies and societal change. Crisis and political change. I work in a combination of ethnography and Digital Humanities.
Keywords: Sahel, ICT, digital, crisis, violence
Benito Trollip
from South Africa – South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)
I am an enthusiastic and amicable person that tends to be excited by amazingly nerdy things. I have hold the position as Afrikaans researcher at SADiLaR since February 2019 and have since delighted in the worlds of DH and research that has opened up for me.
I am interested in a wide range of topics ranging from cognitive linguistics and digital humanities to the intricacies of indigenous knowledge systems and the ethical use of data. I mainly focus on different aspects that have to do with the meaning of complex words in Afrikaans, while maintaining a keen interest in ethics and indigenous knowledge systems.
Keywords: Afrikaans, Ethics, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Linguistics
David Toh Kusi
from Cameroon – ENS Yaounde, the Univerisity Yaoundé 1, Cameroon (tenure); The University of Bamenda (on appointment)
David Toh Kusi is Senior Lecturer in British Literature and Contemporary Literary Studies at ENS Yaounde, University of Yaounde 1. He also occupies a duty post at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon. He is working towards a lasting experience in Digital Humanities and has been exposed to the following DH Programmes: the Second Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities Nigeria, 2018; DHAfrica 2019, the Netherlands; and Digital Humanities 2020.
Keywords: Literature teaching, Cultural studies, and digital pedagogies
Sokfa F. John
from South Africa – University of KwaZulu-Natal
I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the DST/NRF Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) in Sustainable Local Livelihoods, University of KwaZulu-Natal. I hold a PhD in Religion and Social Transformation, with specialization in Sociology of Religion and Digital Humanities/Cultures. I also hold a masters in Gender, Religion and Health
My current research combines a qualitative approach with geospatial analysis to understand and map the impact of Covid-19 on livelihoods resources and activities in selected South African communities. My previous projects include an examination of the social power of algorithms, and a study of niche-based online dating platforms and how dating algorithms shape religious ideas about romantic relationships.
Keywords: Algorithms, digital culture, social media platforms, conflicts, Self
Colin Tredoux
from South Africa – UCT
Professor of Psychology at UCT. PhD from UCT, 1996. Interests in DH are around predictive modeling of descriptions from witness memory.
Interests in DH are around predictive modeling of descriptions from witness memory
Keywords: memory witnesses statistical modeling
Dibyadyuti Roy
from India – Indian Institute of Management Indore
Dr. Roy is an accomplished scholar, educator, and administrator with over 10 years of experience working in multidisciplinary academic environments across USA, UK and India. He has a public facing publication profile with core research specializations in digital humanities and new media studies, critical cultural studies, and communication in scientific and professional contexts.
Keywords: digital humanities and new media studies, critical cultural studies; postcolonial and decolonial DH
Moses Ekpenyong
from Nigeria – University of Uyo
I have B.Sc. Computer Science/Statistics, M.Sc. Computer Science and PhD Speech Technology; and have had fruitful cooperation with colleagues within and outside Nigeria mainly in the field of computing and computational linguistics. A man of many parts I am and interested in exploring the impossible using AI/Data Science.
My current research covers a broad spectrum of computational intelligent methods, for evidence-based solutions delivery in the areas of AI/Data Science, intelligent systems as well as speech and wireless communications technology. I have been involved in developing language technology tools for minor languages. My recent tool is a robust tool kit for automatic annotation and analysis, using automatic waveform-textgrid alignment, and extraction of acoustic parameters for rapid processing of African language speech.
Keywords: AI, Data Science, Language Technology
Maria Olivier
from South Africa – Antarctic Legacy of SA – Stellenbosch University
Principal Investigator, Project Manager and Digital Archivist – Antarctic Legacy of South Africa. am the principal investigator of the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa project, focusing on process improvement of activities and the on-time delivery of outputs. I also fulfill the role of digital archivist for the data repository on DSpace hosted by the Stellenbosch University Library. Included in my duties, I revamp processes and procedures to increase efficiency in the outcome of the project activities. I have expertise in process improvement, budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning. As manager of the project I operate efficiently and creatively in the fast-paced environments of Antarctic Research and the digital landscape. I specialize in information management. I am motivated and passionate about South African National Antarctic Programme – especially the preservation of our history and the promotion of it to all future generations of South Africa.
Keywords: Information management – digitization – heritage – metadata – science communication
Promise Dodzi Kpoglu
from Ghana – University of Ghana
I am a linguist trained at the Université de Lille in France and Leiden University in the Netherlands. Prior to my doctoral studies, I had my bachelor’s education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; and my masters degree from the Université de Lille, Lille.
My research work is principally situated within Ewe dialectology. Currently, I also work in second language acquisition.
Keywords: Gbe languages, contact linguistics, French as a Foreign language
Daniel O’Donnell
from Canada – University of Lethbridge
I am a professor of English and member of the academic staff of the university library at the University of Lethbridge. My research involves Digital Humanities, Scholarly Communication, and Medieval English. I was the founding chair of GO::DH, whose mailing list is housed at my university.
Keywords: DH, Medieval English, Scholarly communication
Andiswa Bukula
from South Africa – North West University
Andiswa Bukula is a language researcher at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, specializing in isiXhosa, one of South Africas’ 11 official languages. My responsibilities as a researcher are mostly focused on developing isiXhosa so that it is elevated to a language of teaching and learning and so that it could analysed using already existing computational tools, because that is a challenge at the moment.
Keywords: Multilingualism, Indigenous Knowledge, Digital Literacy
Menno van Zaanen
from South Africa – South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
I’m a professor in Digital Humanities at the South African Centre for Digital Language resources. I am mainly interested in applying computational techniques in the field of humanities.
Keywords: digital humanities, computational linguistics
SADiLaR page
So Miyagawa
from Japan – Kansai University
I’m working for various projects in Coptic studies. I am currently a post-doc at Kansai University in Digital Humanities, Japan. I’m also working on Nubian languages and other Nilo-Saharan languages as a linguist. I am working on building linguistic corpora of Coptic and Nubian languages developing tools such as OCR, NLP pipelines, etc.
Keywords: Linguistics, Coptic, Nubian, Egyptology, Ancient Egypt
Academia page
James Yékú
from Nigeria – University of Kansas
I am an assistant professor of African digital humanities in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. I study the digital expressions of the literatures and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora, focusing on the African articulations of the digital cultural record.
Keywords: Digital archives, digital editions, cultural studies, Nollywood
Twitter
Personal webpage
Sabeehah Mahomed
from United Kingdom – University College London
MSc Digital Humanities graduate from University College London. BA (Hons) Cum Laude from University of South Africa. Chevening ’19/20 Alumnus and Fellow of RSA. Humanitarian with a passion for using technology to benefit society. Until July 2020, I worked as an graduate student researcher for Ethical Innovation for Artificial Intelligence (Ei4ai) in association with UCL and University of Toronto. I presented on the topic of racial bias in AI systems at the “ei4ai” conference this year. Presently my research entails primary data collection on public perception of racial bias in AI, with a specific focus on the perception held by South Africans and Nigerians, two of Africa’s leading countries.
Keywords: Ethical AI, bias, society
Onipede Festus Moses
from Nigeria – Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro
I am a Lecturer at Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State Nigeria. My research areas are: Discourse Analysis, Stylistics, Multimodality, Systemic Functional Linguistics. My research centres on meaning-making in religious discourses, gender equality among others.
Keywords: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Stylistics
Jennifer Hart
from United States – Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro
Jennifer Hart is an Associate Professor of History, teaching African History and Digital Humanities.
Keywords: Mobility, cities, architecture, community engagement
Barbara Bordalejo
from Canada/ Argentina – University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Global DH, Intersectionality, Editing
Erika Mann
from United States – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Digital initiatives librarian at Purdue University Fort Wayne
Keywords: DH, publishing, global DH, digital collections
Rooweither Mabuya
from South Africa – South African for Digital Language Resources
Rooweither Mabuya is a Language Researcher at the South African Centre for Digital Resources.
Keywords: Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, isiZulu, Language Development
Mmasibidi Setaka
from South Africa – South African for Digital Language Resources
I’m a language researcher specialising in Sesotho at SADiLaR, with interest in Lexicography.
Keywords: Lexicography, computational linguistics, linguistics, Sesotho
Debbie Anderson
from US – UC Berkeley
I am a Researcher in the Dept. of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and run the Script Encoding Initiative.
Keywords: Unicode, language support
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