November 5, 2025

10 AM

Zoom - Register here

In this presentation, “Digital Justice and the Global South: Decolonizing Archives through Gold Coast Novels,” Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson examine how digital humanities practices can advance equitable approaches to archiving African literary texts. Drawing from her digital project, Gold Coast Novels in the Era of Digitization, she discusses the digitization and mapping of four early Anglophone novels from the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana): Marita or the Folly of Love (1886–1888), Ethiopia Unbound (1911), The Anglo-Fanti (1928), and Eighteenpence (1943). This talk situates these efforts within broader conversations on digital justice and explores how digitization, mapping, annotation,  geocoding, and open-access archiving can challenge colonial hierarchies of knowledge while giving Global South texts renewed visibility as living cultural artifacts. She also reflects on lessons from the 2025 Potsdam Digital Humanities Summer School and call for a more inclusive digital future that recognizes Africa as both a site and producer of digital knowledge. 

Register to attend