Almeda: African Literary Metadata

On 10 April 14-16 CET Ashleigh Harris will be in Paris, talking about how the ALMEDA project uses Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web to create sustainable and multilingual data on African literary and expressive culture. Join in online!

Reminder: If you are in Uppsala/Stockholm on Thursday 26 May, join us for the 'Locating Film in the Multiple Geographies of the Audiovisual Archive' symposium. See program details below!

We are proud to announce a symposium on African film and the audiovisual archive organised by ALMEDA postdoctoral fellow, Oulia Makkonen, and funded by . The symposium takes place on 26 March. Read more about it on our website.

https://almedaresearch.org/locating-film-in-the-multiple-geographies-of-the-audiovisual-archive-26-march-2026-uppsala-university/

Reminder: join us for Gloria Ajami Makokha's symposium on the Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa this coming Thursday. No registration required. See details here: https://almedaresearch.org/materialities-of-oral-cultures-in-east-africa-an-online-symposium-12-march-2026/

Join us online for a symposium on the Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa, organised by postdoctoral fellow Gloria Ajami Makokha on 12 March 2026. All details available through the following link:
https://almedaresearch.org/materialities-of-oral-cultures-in-east-africa-an-online-symposium-12-march-2026/

Join us online for a symposium on the Materialities of Oral Cultures in East Africa, organised by postdoctoral fellow Gloria Ajami Makokha on 12 March 2026. All details available through the following link:
https://almedaresearch.org/materialities-of-oral-cultures-in-east-africa-an-online-symposium-12-march-2026/

We are excited to announce a new collaboration with . Read more about it on our website:
https://almedaresearch.org/almeda-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-aflia-african-library-and-information-associations-and-institutions/

ALMEDA has a new working paper by Ashleigh Harris on AI and the field of African Literary Studies. Read more about it here:
https://almedaresearch.org/ai-and-african-literary-studies-a-new-almeda-working-paper/

The ALMEDA project is committed to a broad multilingual framework, not only to ensure excellent and substantial multilingual inclusion across as many African languages as possible (see our work with literary lexicons), but also to provide data on African literature’s global movements and circulation in non-African languages. To this purpose, we have recently received data on ‘African Works in Thai Translation’ from Chiara Francesca Jumnong. Find out more on our website:

https://almedaresearch.org/thai-translations-of-african-novels-and-short-stories/

Our latest Lexicon of literary terms, this time in Lulogooli, has just been published by Maurice Simbili Mwichuli. Read more about it and on how to contribute further lexicons here:
https://almedaresearch.org/lulogooli-lexicon-of-literary-terms/

We are excited to welcome Anna Marie Skråmestø Nesheim to ALMEDA. Anna Marie's research investigates how copyright systems affected the production of African performing arts in West Africa between 1850 and 1960.
https://almedaresearch.org/welcome-to-our-new-marie-sklodowska-curie-global-postdoctoral-fellow-anna-marie-skramesto-nesheim/

Almeda members Ashleigh Harris and Nicklas Hållén attended and presented research at the workshop Lost & Found: Archives and Multilingualism in the (Post)Colony.