african-studies

LLM pipelines for the Islam West Africa Collection: OCR, HTR, transcription, NER, summarization and sentiment analysis, written back to Omeka S

Post-event archive for "Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies" (Hanover, 18–20 February 2026) — photos, participant interviews, concept map, and bibliography. SvelteKit static site funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Read-only MCP server for the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC): 37 tools over 12,000+ francophone newspaper articles, Islamic publications, archives and academic references from six West African countries. Claude Desktop extension, Docker image, or hosted endpoint.

Read-only MCP server for AMIRA, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence research-data platform on Omeka S — 26 tools over ~4,000 research items, 93 projects, 1,600+ people, publications, podcasts and video transcripts. Offline-first bundled snapshot, no API key, every result citable by URL.

Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa — research data, Python code and interactive visualisations from the Remoboko project on religiosity and secular education on West African university campuses

research-focused publications around issues of African politics, economics and social affairs

Browse and visualize research data from the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and its Africa Multiple Research Centres. Built with SvelteKit 5, ECharts 6, and MapLibre GL; deployed as a static site to GitHub Pages.

RDF vocabulary for the Islam West Africa Collection: AI processing provenance and model-keyed sentiment annotation properties for Omeka S

Interactive visualizations for the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), powered by ECharts, MapLibre GL and d3-force

Omeka S module: Typesense-backed faceted search across twelve corpora — research items, projects, publications, podcasts, videos, people, organisations and authority terms. Indexed straight from the Omeka dashboard via MySQL; no external pipeline; Typesense optional.

Conference talks and lectures by Frédérick Madore on Islam in West Africa, digital humanities and AI — offline reveal.js decks on a shared "Broadsheet" theme

Real-time translated captions and same-language subtitles for hybrid conferences — a Tauri desktop app with a transparent, always-on-top overlay, driven by Gemini, OpenAI or Mistral realtime speech models.

Path to a free self-taught education in African Studies.

Bilingual (EN/FR) website for the DFG Programme Point Sud workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies — STIAS, Stellenbosch, 21–24 September 2026. SvelteKit + Tailwind, prerendered to GitHub Pages.

The 256 Odù Ifá as a canonical byte mapping, with Yorùbá orthography intact. All 16 principal figures verified against Bascom (1969) and cited by page.

Interactive dashboard comparing how five LLMs — GPT-5.6 Luna, Mistral Small 4, DeepSeek v4 Flash, Gemma 4 31B and Qwen3.8 27B — annotated 12,349 francophone West African press articles, with inter-rater agreement, discrepancy analysis and blind arbitration. Bilingual FR/EN; the earlier three-model campaign stays archived.

Omeka S module: d3-force knowledge graphs, ECharts dashboards and MapLibre maps as resource- and site-page blocks

Python pipeline mirroring the Islam West Africa Collection from Omeka S into Hugging Face datasets: semantic embeddings, LDA topic models, lexical metrics, Islamic-calendar dates and a multi-model sentiment panel