African Digital Heritage
African Digital Heritage Foundation
Nairobi, Kenya
About
African Digital Heritage is a non-governmental organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya working on heritage, arts & culture.
A Nairobi-based non-profit organisation that promotes a critical, holistic and knowledge-based approach to digital solutions within African cultural heritage. It digitises archives, oral histories, museum collections and monuments, and uses technology for digital engagement, storytelling, research, capacity building and public history events. Its work is rooted in Africa but spans international collaborations. It relies on donor funding, grants and sponsorships.
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Skills for Culture
Heritage
Capacity-building programme that builds digital and heritage skills for cultural sector organisations and county and community practitioners.
Open Restitution Africa
Heritage
Work on mapping and making restitution data across the African continent accessible.
Museum of British Colonialism
Heritage
Digital project documenting and visualising British colonial history in Kenya, including detention camps and concentration camp villages.
The Culture Catch Up
Arts & Culture
Public history conversations featuring African artists, scholars and cultural practitioners.
Talking Objects
Heritage
Project building a digital archive for decolonial knowledge production.
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