As we move towards the end of the series we ask - How can we build a sustainable digital infrastructure that is people-centred and Africa centred? We reflect on indigenous data sovereignty, data stewardship and creative strategies toward collective care for digital data. Positing that digital collections are not a point of reversal to an idealized past but rather a point of departure toward a collectively imagined future. 

Speakers: Angela Okune, Temi Odumosu, Minne Atairu, Andrea Wallace, Molemo Moiloa, Neema Iyer, Chao T. Maina

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This episode explores the complex and entangled questions around legal ownership of digital collections in the face of already contested physical collections. While Western IP systems are built around individual ownership, indigenous knowledge systems are designed to have communal and collective benefits. What limitations and dangers does this present in the context of mass digitisation? Who has the right to make digital copies in the first place? And how can we imagine legal ownership outside Western-oriented frameworks? 

Speakers: Nothando Migogo, Molemo Moiloa, Chao T. Maina, Andrea Wallace, Mulenga Kapwepwe

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In this episode, we reflect on digital practice as a form of repair, care and knowledge creation.  Faced with challenges around access to data, absence of archives and physical removal of objects from communities - How are digital collections creating room for new African narratives and imaginations? What potential does digital restitution hold for African heritage? And how can this contribute to the physical return of artefacts? 

Speakers: Temi Odumosu, Minne Atairu, Molemo Moiloa, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Samba Yonga, Mulenga Kapwepwe, Neema Iyer, Chao T. Maina

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