Exploring African Digital Archives: An Interactive Seminar with Dr. Chambi Chachage

Exploring African Digital Archives: An Interactive Seminar with Dr. Chambi Chachage
Assistant Professor of African Studies, Howard University

Description
Join us for an engaging and collaborative seminar on Exploring African Digital Archives. This session invites faculty, graduate students, and researchers to collectively explore historical and contemporary digital archives on Africa and Africans. Participants will discover how these archives—spanning various source materials, multiple voices, and time periods—can enrich research, teaching, and interdisciplinary scholarship.

About the Speaker
Dr. Chambi Chachage is an Assistant Professor of African Studies at Howard University, where he teaches courses on African Systems of Thought and Introduction to Contemporary Africa. He holds a PhD in African Studies from Harvard University and previously served as an Assistant Professor at Carleton University and a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Princeton University. His research and writing appear in platforms such as Africa is a Country, African Arguments, and journals including Review of African Political Economy and Business History Review.

Presented by the Department of African Studies

Co-sponsored by: The African Studies Graduate Student Association, Center for African Studies and the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership.