From Conversation to Co-Authorship: A Workshop on Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies

On 18–20 February 2026, twenty-six researchers from sixteen countries gathered at the Xplanatorium Herrenhausen in Hanover for "Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies," a scoping workshop funded by the VolkswagenStiftung and organised by Frédérick Madore and Vincent Hiribarren (King's College London). Participants included linguists, literary scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, archivists, AI governance specialists, Islamic studies scholars, and digital humanities practitioners working across the African continent, Europe, and North America.