Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2020
Publication Title
History in Africa
Abstract
This essay examines the origin, permutations, potentials, challenges, and implications of two successive, collaborative public history research, teaching, and learning projects undertaken by the Department of History at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, and the Department of History and Archeology at Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya between 2014 and 2018. The two projects explored how opportunities created by the mobile revolution in Africa could be leveraged to generate new ways of acquiring historical information and knowledge between students and faculty in universities separated by enormous distances and by disparate social, economic, and political experiences. Specifically, the projects examined how the cellphone revolution could reshape the production and dissemination of knowledge about important sites, places, events, and people in modern Africa. The essay examines the conception and permutations of the two projects; identifies and explores their potentials and challenges; and proffers thoughts and suggestions that may guide similar future endeavors.
Repository Citation
Souther, J. Mark and Owino, Meshack, "“‘Curating Kisumu’ and ‘Curating East Africa’: Academic Collaboration and Public Engagement in the Digital Age”" (2020). History Faculty Publications. 135.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clhist_facpub/135
Original Citation
“‘Curating Kisumu’ and ‘Curating East Africa’: Academic Collaboration and Public Engagement in the Digital Age” (with Meshack Owino), History in Africa 47 (June 2020): 327–357.
Volume
47
Version
Postprint
Publisher's Statement
This work originally published in History in Africa. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-in-africa
Included in
African History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Public History Commons
