{"id":13136,"date":"2026-06-04T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&p=13136"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:09:35","slug":"act-of-refusal","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/act-of-refusal\/","title":{"rendered":"HiiStoryYangu, HiiStoryYako, HiiStoryYetu: On Public History, and the Digital as an Act of Refusal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This talk draws on the work of African Digital Heritage to examine what public history looks like when it is built from the ground up, by and with African communities. It traces the political, ethical, and practical dimensions of digital heritage work on the continent: who owns the power to tell history, the risks of digitization without safeguard, and the possibilities that open up when communities are treated as the primary authors of their own (hi)stories. It makes the case that digital tools, used with intention, empathy, and a commitment to community sovereignty, are powerful instruments of truth-telling, cultural reclamation, and ancestral intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mutanu Kyany’a<\/a> is a cultural technologist, digital society scholar, and Director of Research and Programs at African Digital Heritage (ADH), a Nairobi-based non-profit working at the intersection of technology and African cultural heritage. With a background in Computer Science and a specialisation in community development and digital cultures, her work is fuelled by a curiosity about how communities gather online, what stories they tell, what infrastructures shape those acts of telling, and how those spaces become sites where African communities actively re-document, interrogate, and reclaim their (hi)stories on their own terms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n