Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024): Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Since the inception of the African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI) by Yohanna Joseph Waliya in 2021 under the aegis of the Electronic Literature Organization, and in collaboration with Prof. Richard Ajah of the University of Uyo, Nigeria, Prof. Mourad El Fhali and Prof. Abdelmoumin El Azouzi of the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco, and Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, this movement continues to create an avenue via its African Electronic Literature International Workshop and Conference (AELAIWC). This initiative has been supported by different academic institutions in Africa such as University of Lagos, University of Uyo, University of Calabar and Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco, providing a platform through which African scholars across the globe have been trained on the basics of digital literary scholarship and practices in order to position the future of the humanities scholarship in Africa. In other words, AELAIWC provides capacity building forum to the young African scholars by teaching digital research methodology and computational analysis in all fields of the humanities especially literature and language. Thus, the birth of African modern interdisciplinary scholarship in Digital Humanities is evident. Furthermore, computational interception in the humanities now tilts towards the unification of the whole humanities under the umbrella of what is popularly known today as Digital Humanities, fostering collaborative and interdisciplinary research. This is a sort of returning to the philosophy of the medieval period whereby all disciplines fed from the same philosophical tools and institutions.

Hence, this June 2024 Volume 1 Issue Number 2 of MADSEJ centres on the Digital Humanities and interdisciplinary scholarship in Africa. It contains a peer-review collection of the major discussions at the AELAIWC2023 and few works from other reputable experts in electronic literature and its subgenres.