Technology
Why is Facebook asking me how to pronounce my name?
Facebook has decided my name is weird and hard and I have to prevent awkward situations by teaching my “Friends” how to say it.
Africanizing Technology
The photographic record of an academic conference which key question was "How is technology rooted in a longer history of African experiences?"
The Queering Slavery Working Group
This tumblr focuses on reading, researching, and writing histories of intimacy, sex, and sexuality during Atlantic slave period.
A Social History of the Gambia
An archive - stretching from 1820 to 1960 - of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.
The African Sources of Knowledge Digital Library
Organized at Harvard University, this digital library contains rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts.
Africa Cartoons
A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.
The Digital Mandela
Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa's democratic president, Nelson Mandela.
Africa Through a Lens
An online archive of photos taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection housed in the UK's National Archives.
The Afrobarometer
Inaugurating our series on digital African projects. We'll document projects working to make more resources about Africa’s past and present available online.
Can an algorithm be racist?
Google translators limitations make for sometimes funny, sometimes dangerous results.
Facebook Politics in Zimbabwe
The 'Baba Jukwa' Facebook page exposes state and ruling party corruption and correctly predicts leadership battles in Zimbabwe. Who is behind it?
Wole Soyinka has opinions about social media
The novelist and Nobel Prize winner on why he avoids social media entirely, saying he doesn’t tweet, blog, or engage with what he calls today’s increasingly promiscuous digital platforms.