Digiafrolism

I was chosen as a participant for the #HACKURCULTURE hackathon.

For the past three weeks, we have been working with the GLAM institute - District Six Museum to come up with solutions to the challenges they were facing in the digital era.

I am glad to say that our team AfriKreatives has won the Best Compelling project. The logo which I created looks amazing in the winning category. Apart from the logo I also worked on the illustrations.

See the project here: PROJECT

?It was amazing to see Africans preserving their cultural heritage, and therefore practising Digiafrolism.

Digiafrolism is the study of the digitisation of African themes, intelligence, cultural heritage and language in the digital space.

It explores ways in which Africans are reviving their African identity, culture, and history in the digital space. Digiafrolism aims to study the implications of postcolonialism pertaining to African culture, patterns and designs in the digital space. Furthermore, it is of the opinion that Africans should spearhead these conversions from hardcopies to softcopies, as they are directly affected and therefore they are in a better position to understand the challenges and address effectively from a bottom-up approach in order to find practical and current solutions to current problems, and not use the copy-paste mentality or methods.

Digiafrolism promotes the curation, collection and conversion of African themes, stories, patterns, designs and languages to digital forms. Digiafrolism provides access to African intelligence, themes and designs through digital platforms. It is concerned with the effective interaction between the user and the digitised item/s.

Digiafrolism draws heavily from Afrocentrism and places African narratives, themes and ideas in the digital space. It seeks to restore the rich knowledge and knowhow that was lost during the implementation of western dominator paradigms and cultural hegemonies.

Similar to Pan- Africanism Digiafrolism works both as an academic study and a grassroots (local level). As an academic study, it aims to continue where postcolonialism started and improve where it has failed. As a grassroots Digiafrolism aims to improve the living standards of people through empowering their mental capacity to make use of forgotten useful African knowledge and wisdom that once work, but was disregarded by colonial powers. As a philosophy, it aims to address the challenges which could not be addressed due to the implications of epistemic violence and cultural hegemony, which lead to neocolonialism and possibly the fourth wave of colonialism.