Editorial: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the African Humanities Scholarship

Authors

  • Richard Ajah University of Uyo
  • Yohanna Joseph Waliya The Nigeria French Language Village

Keywords:

African Digital Humanities, African storytelling, African digital culture, Artificial Intelligence, Digital culture, African electronic literature, Electronic literature, corpus linguistics, climatophosis, AntConc, humanités numériques, humanités numériques africaine, analyse des sentiments, sentiment analysis, climate change, environment digital literature, entax theory

Abstract

This is the editorial for the Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) Volume 2 Number 1, October, 2024.

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Author Biographies

  • Richard Ajah, University of Uyo

    Richard Ajah, PhD is a professor of French, Francophone African literature, and cultural studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Uyo, Nigeria where he teaches Francophone African war texts, migrant writing, African graphic novels and BDs among other multimodal texts. He has embraced the emerging trends of Digital Humanities and he is the founding coordinator of Digital Humanities Unit of the Faculty of Arts (DHuFArts), University of Uyo, Nigeria and equally the National Treasurer of Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (DHAN). He is a critic, lecturer and scholar in literary studies and French studies with research interests in medical humanities, environmental humanities, digital humanities, digital humanities. He has studied African war texts, graphic novels, pathographies and migrant texts. He graduated BA (First Class) in French studies of University of Uyo Nigeria, MA and PhD from University of Ibadan Nigeria. He is a member of several professional associations such as DHAN, UFTAN, ALA, GO::DH, etc.

  • Yohanna Joseph Waliya, The Nigeria French Language Village

    Yohanna Joseph Waliya obtained M.A. French Studies (Twitterature;Twitterbot poetry) at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable mention by The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI)], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI (https://africanelit.org ), International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, Scrimba Scholar 2022-2023, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), Inferno 2.0 (ludokinetic poetry) etc. He is also a lecturer at the Nigeria French Language Village, Ajara-Badagry, Lagos.  His research interests cover distant writing, distant reading, digital poetry, Metaversal literature, Twitterbot-poetry, Twitterature, Digital Humanities and language discourse, training Artificial Intelligence to speak Nigerian Pidgin English.

References

Ajah, Richard. “Introduction to African Electronic Literature.” MADSEJ, vol.1, no. 1, 2023, p.56-66.

Kemp, Simon. « Digital 2024 October Global Statshot Report ». DataReportal, 23 October 2024, https://indd.adobe.com/view/56eac68a-1f77-422d-87ed-2f5a5230e9ad?allowFullscreen=true&wmode=opaque.

Waliya, Yohanna Joseph. « Digital Activism & “Botification” of Janusz Korczak’s Concepts in “Twitterature” ». WHAT WOULD KORCZAK DO? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children’s Rights in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Wydawnictwo Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej, 2020, p. 21‑40.

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Published

05-12-2024

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): The Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the African Humanities Scholarship

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Ajah, Richard, and Yohanna Waliya. “Editorial: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the African Humanities Scholarship”. Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-Lit Journal (MADSEJ), vol. 2, no. 1, Dec. 2024, p. ii-iii, https://madsej.africanelit.org/index.php/madsej/article/view/21.

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