The Digital as Archives of African and Afrodiasporic Knowledge

Chair: Julia Borst (U Bremen) 

Discussants: Shola Adenekan (Ghent U), Julia Borst (U Bremen), Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Amherst College), Amatoritsero Ede (Mount Allison U), Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang (U Ghana/SIT) 

Our roundtable addressed the digital space as an archive of African and Afrodescendant knowledge. It explored how the digital serves as a space where (new) knowledge is produced, stored and disseminated and asks for the potentials and the hindrances of the digital archive in the 21st century. 

Link to the program of ALA 2025: https://conference.africanlit.org/2025-program