African Digital Humanites, the Department of African and African-American Studies & the Kansas African Studies Center present th first digital indaba for Fall 2025. It will feature writer and linguist Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún. 

Registaration: Digital Indaba: Black Orpheus Digitally Revisited

His digital project concentrates on Black Orpheus, a landmark literary journal of African and African American literature and arts. Originally published between 1957 and 1967, Black Orpheus was founded by German scholar Ulli Beier and played a significant role in Africa's artistic awakening by curating and platforming works by mid-20th-century Francophone and Anglophone African writers, as well as African American artists. Túbọ̀sún's project revisits this historic cultural journal, using various digital tools and methods to bring its legacy to a new generation. He will discuss how digital humanities tools can be employed to analyze, preserve, and reinterpret historical publications like Black Orpheus. 

The talk will be moderated by Brigid Enchill, a former fellow at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH).