The project aims to digitize, create a database and make it accessible to the international research domain, a pre-independence herbarium located in the town of Nyankpala, northern Ghana. Also, core to the project is the preservation and management of this herbarium which will involve maintaining as intact as possible hard copies of this archival material.
This project involves the collection and digital copying of over ten hours of audio recordings, about one hour of video filming and twenty-three photographic images of the Dagara bagr mythical narration recorded or taken during the secret rites of initiation into the bagr cult among the Dagara…
This pilot project targets endangered archival collections in the Central administrative region of Ghana and will be undertaken in collaboration with the Central regional directorate of Ghana’s national archives - the Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD). The PRAAD building…
This project will preserve and digitise vulnerable documents held at Korle We (the shrine to the Goddess of the Lagoon), Nai We (the shrine to the Goddess of the Sea) and Sakumo Tsoshishi (the shrine to the God of War) - the three paramount religious shrines in Accra, Ghana. Most of the activities…
Building on two previous projects (Pilot Project EAP256 and Major Project EAP541), this project will complete the digitisation of the endangered historical records held by the Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) in Tamale, northern Ghana. During the earlier projects, the research…
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