The companion website for the exhibition “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa” presents images and information about key objects and artworks from the exhibition, interviews with experts, and resources to support teaching and learning.
The collection on Commemorative Fabrics from Africa is part of the digital collections at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Library.
This website hosts a digitised version of one of the earliest independent African women’s magazines
This tool allows you to make your paper Open Access, for free, wherever you publish.
The Australian Research Data Commons FAIR data self assessment tool will enable you to assess the ‘FAIRness’ of a dataset and determine how to enhance its FAIRness
The International African Institute (IAI) in collaboration with AfricarXiv present an interactive map of African digital research literature repositories.
We stand in solidarity with our African colleagues, students, alumni, and all those fighting racial injustice and inequality in Germany and across the world. As researchers in African Studies, we are aware of African Studies‘ entaglement with the history of colonialism. As VAD and as individuals, we regularly work with African colleagues and engage in
The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) has established the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance as an important complement to the FAIR principles for data management.
The Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) is deeply concerned about the increasingly polemic debate that has resulted from the invitation of Achille Mbembe as a guest speaker at the Ruhr-Triennale 2020. We are committed to equal, unprejudiced international cooperation, especially with academics in and from the African continent, in accordance with the VAD
Here we introduce a collection of ethnographic video materials that can be incorporated into digital teaching.