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CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES,
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS (CEDHUL):
Our Journey So Far
A Presentation by
Professor Tunde Ope-Davies
Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos
20th Jan. 2023
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
LAGOS
WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
(The First Full-Fledged, Stand Alone,
Centre for Digital Humanities in
Africa)
We are extremely excited and pleased to tell
you our stories!!
CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITES,
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS: THE JOURNEY SO
FAR
NIVERSITY OF
GOS, LAGOS,
NIGERIA
Founded in
1962
Over 55, 000
student
population
MY PHYSICAL LOCATION IN VIRTUAL SPACE
Vice Chancellor
Director, Research
Management Office
Director
Deputy
Director
Asst.
Director
Asst.
Director
Deputy Vice Chancellor
( Academic & Research )
GOVERNANCE
This slide shows the
governance
structure of the
Centre for Digital
Humanities,
University of Lagos
Professor Dr. Tunde Ope-Davies
Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Germany
Professor of Digital Linguistics, Digital
Cultures & Discourse Studies
Founder & Director, Centre for Digital
Humanities, University of Lagos
THE CENTRE FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
OUR TEAM
Dr Mojisola Shodipe
( New Media & Society Cluster)
Dr Abayomi Awelewa
( Digital Literature & Society
Cluster)
Dr Ayodeji Adedara
( Digital Political Discourse
Cluster)
Dr Peter Oni
(African Cultures &
Epistemology Cluster)
OUR TEAM (contd.)
Dr Friday Aworawo
Digital History & Cultural
Heritage Cluster
Joshua Ngbakor
ICT/Technical Officer Amaechi Ogbonnia
Data Entry Officer & Research
Assistant
ABOUT JOHN HENRY CHUKWUDI
John Henry is currently a graduate
student in France, studying his Master’s
Degree in Rare Books and Digital
Humanities at the University of Franche-
Comté, Besancon, Franche-Comté.
He is currently at the Centre for Digital
Humanities, University of Lagos for a joint
research, on a pilot project titled:
LIT TECH: LAGOS: A Digital exploration
of Lagos City in Selected Literary Texts
OUR GUEST RESEARCHER FROM FRANCE
Webcloud illustrating some of our
preoccupations as digital humanities centre
Our Centre’s
Workflow
Focusing on 4 key
components:
(i) Digital
Humanities
(ii) Digital
(iii)Digital
Scholarship
(iv)Digital
Research
Environment
The Centre started as a very small foremost
Research Unit in Digital Humanities in late
2015 following the successful return of
Professor Ope-Davies’ from his research stay in
Germany sponsored by the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation. And having been
exposed to the principles and practice of Digital
Humanities in Germany, he returned to the
University of Lagos armed with the vision to
replicate and promote that new initiative in
Nigeria and Africa.
IN THE BEGINNING
https://www.freeppt7.com
Prof Ope-Davies’
passion and drive for
value-added initiatives
and innovative ideas led
him to propose and
vigorously promote the
creation of the Digital
Humanities Research
Unit with the equipment
donated to him by the
Humboldt Foundation
in 2015. Thus he was
able to establish the 1st
DH Lab in Nigeria.
Some of the pictures at
the inauguration of the
unit are shown here. In
the next 2 slides
Professor Ope-Davies, Professor Jide Alo, Deputy Vice Chancellor(
Academics & Research), Mr. Ingo Herbert, the Consul-General
German Embassy Lagos
A view of the Digital Humanities Laboratory and the guests of honour at the
opening of the Lab in 2015
Mr. Ingo Herbert, the Consul-General, German Embassy Lagos,
Professor Ope-Davies, Professor Jide Alo, Deputy Vice Chancellor(
Academics & Research), Professor Austin Nwagbara, English
In the quest to ensure a wider
dissemination and sharing of his
knowledge and skills in Digital Humanities
with his colleagues, he started organising
workshops and seminars. Such academic
events were meant to create more
awareness about how digital humanities
can fundamentally transform approaches
and techniques in traditional humanities.
His efforts and ideas were put into bigger
practical implementation by organising the
1st Lagos Summer School in Digital
Humanities(LSSDH) in 2017 using his
personal resources and some support from
a few friends and colleagues.
Here you have the poster showing some
details about the Summer School.
COMMENCEMENT OF CAPACITY BUILDING
PROGRAMMES
At the Opening Ceremony
of the 2017 1st Lagos
Summer School in Digital
Humanities with Professor
Dan O’Donnell, from the
University of Lethbridge,
Canada, as Keynote
Speaker
Based on the success of the 1st Lagos
Summer School in Digital
Humanities, he applied for an Alumni
sponsorship grant from the
Humboldt Foundation, Germany and
was awarded a conference grant to
organise the 1st Lagos Humboldt
Conference in Digital Humanities in
Nov 2017.
Here is the poster showing some
details about the Digital Humanities
Conference
Professor Dr Oyvind Eide from the University of
Cologne, Germany was the keynote speaker.
https://medium.com/research-methods-in-digital-
humanities/digital-humanities-is-cc0a1ce6febb
In late 2017, Professor Ope-
Davies started exploring
alternative sources of funding
for expanded training and
capacity building programmes
targeted at junior scientists and
postgraduate students who
have shown tremendous
enthusiasm in Digital
Humanities during previous
programmes. A number of
them have started utilising this
knowledge acquired to do
some research and analyses in
Digital Humanities-related
works.
The challenge to expand and
sustain the Summer School as an
annual event led to Professor Ope-
Davies’ discussion with his friend,
Professor Dr Øyvind Eide at the
University of Cologne, Germany.
With his support, they secured a
funding facility from the
Volkswagen Foundation, Germany
to jointly organise the 2nd Lagos
Summer School in Digital
Humanities(LSSDH-2018) from
September 30-October 6, 2018 at
the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
The 2018 Lagos
Summer School in
Digital Humanities
had over 100
attendees from
Nigeria and some
countries in West
Africa (e.g.
Cameroon, Ghana,
Togo and Cote
D’Ivoire).
International experts
in DH as facilitators
came from Canada
USA, and Germany.
L-R: Dr Alex Gil, USA, Prof Oyvind Eide, Germany, Dr Morgan, USA, Prof
O’Donnell, Canada, Prof Ope-Davies, Nigeria
Professor Dan O’Donnell from Lethbridge University, Canada,
delivering the opening keynote at the 2nd Lagos Summer School
in Digital Humantities, 2018
Some attendees with the facilitators at the 2018 Summer
2019: The Official Inauguration of the Centre for Digital
Humanities(CEDHUL)- L-R: Prof Familoni, Deputy Vice
Chancellor(Academic & Research) & Prof Olufunke Adeboye,
The Centre for Digital Humanities officially
inaugurated in 2019
Special Guests Arriving for the Official Inauguration
for the Centre for Digital Humanities in 2019
Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021
University of Lagos
formally approved
the establishment of
the Centre for Digital
Humanities. The
Alexander von
Humboldt
Foundation again
donated some
research equipment
to further support
Professor Ope-
Davies’ digital
humanities initiatives
At the Official commissioning of the Centre and hand over of equipment
donated by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
L-R: Guest from Brazil, Prof Ope-Davies, Professor Bola Oboh, Director of
Research, University of Lagos, Dr Kneissl from Humboldt Foundation, The
Consul-General, German Embassy, Lagos
By 2019, Professor Ope-Davies’ effort was
recognized at the International level. He was
invited to join a Scientific Committee to
Organise a Digital Humanities workshop for
African scholars titled DH-2019: The
Perspective of Africa
1. Mirjam de Bruijn , Ledien University
2. Franciska de Jong – CLARIN ERIC
3. Tunde Opeibi, University of Lagos
4.Sara Petrollino, Utrecht University/Leiden
University
5. Juan Steyn, SADiLaR, South Africa
The Workshop was held at the University of
Leiden, the Netherlands
 The participants were also sponsored to
attend the 2019 International Conference of
the Alliance for Digital Humanities
Organizations(ADHO) at the University of
Utrecht, the Netherlands.
4th Princeton Annual Humanities Colloquium(PAHC) on Africa and Digital Humanities, November 16 &
17, 2020
4th Princeton Annual Humanities Colloquium(PAHC) on Africa and Digital Humanities, November 16 &
17, 2020
4 of the products of Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities(LSSDH) who won the ADHO
Bursary awards in 2019 at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands: L-R: Dr Richard Ajah, Dr
James Akinola, Modupe Agunbiade, Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of
Lagos, Prof Tunde Ope-Davies(Opeibi), and Felix Oke. [July 2019]
Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021
Formal Inauguration of Network for Digital Humanities in Africa
Following the co-
organisation of the
DH Africa Symposium
in Leiden, the
Netherlands, in July
2019 where the
Centre for Digital
Humanities,
University of Lagos
(CEDHUL )produced
5 attendees, we
automatically
became a key player
in the formal
establishment of the
Network for Digital
Humanities in Africa
in 2020.
[https://dhafrica.blog/]
The success of these training and
capacity building programmes made
Prof Ope-Davies to continue to
pursue the vision of spreading the
knowledge and practice of digital
humanities in Africa.
The 3rd Lagos Summer School in
Digital Humanities (LSSDH-2021)
was a hybrid mode and it attracted
about more than 20 participants
from Sub-Saharan African countries
and another 30 from Nigeria for
physical classes in Lagos. Other
participants from other parts of
Africa participated virtually.
Our international speakers and
facilitators delivered their talks and
DH 2022- - TOKYO
DH 2022- - TOKYO
Some of the attendees at the 3rd Lagos
Summer School in Digital Humanities-
2021
3rd Lagos Summer School in Digital
Humanities, May 9-15, 2021
https://dhcommons.hypotheses.org/date/2021/04
As a researcher and scholar, Professor Ope-
Davies, besides organising and presenting
talks in several DH Conferences within and
outside the country, he has published a
number of academic articles in Digital
Humanities and its allied areas. Some of these
are listed below:
 Opeibi, T.(2018). Reconfiguring Our Worlds Through
Words: A Critical Mapping of Discourse in Human Socio-
Cyberspace. Lagos: University of Lagos Press. Pp 141
 Opeibi, T., and Schmied, J. (eds) (2018). From Virtual
Sphere to Physical Space: Exploring Language Use in
Nigerian Democracy, REAL Studies Vol 13. Gottingen:
Cuvillier Verlag, 206pp
 Taiwo R., and Opeibi, T. (eds.) (2016). Discourse of
Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the
Developing World. New York: Nova Science Publishers
Inc. 222 pp. (USA).
SOME RESEARCH PRODUCTS IN DH FROM
THE CENTRE
 Ope-Davies/Opeibi, T. ( 2022c) Literature, Technology, Society: A digital reconstruction of cultural conflicts in
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in Anne Schwan and Tara Thomson(eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Digital
and Public Humanities, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pp 195-213
 Ope-Davies, Tunde (2022b) The Digital Humanities as a Framework for Refining and Retooling the Humanities
in Africa: A Case Study of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. International Journal of Humanities Arts &
Computing (IJHAC), Vol 16 (2), 116-137.
 Ope-Davies/Opeibi, T.(2022a). Digitalisation of the Academe in Africa: Interrogating the Role of Technology
in Reconfiguring African Studies. In: Dreiser, Anja ; Samimi, Cyrus (eds.): Frontiers in African Digital
Research. Ed.: Kroeker, Lena. Bayreuth , 2021. University of Bayreuth African Studies Online 10.
https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005720 Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth Institute of African
Studies Publication. Available at https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/5720/
 Ope-Davies, Tunde (2021). Online remote language teaching during and beyond the pandemic: echoes
from the Anchor University in Lagos. In Radić,N. Atabekova, A, Freddi, M., and Schmied, J. (eds). The
world universities’ response to COVID-19: remote online language teaching. London: Researcpublishing.net
DOI: 10.14705/rpnet.2021.52.1264
(
 Opeibi/Ope-Davies, T. (2021). Digitizing Humanities Research in Nigeria: An Exploration of Local
Initiatives. Joseph, K, & Risam, R.(eds) Digital Black Atlantic Volume. New York: Minnesota
University Press
 Ope-Davies/Opeibi, T.(2021) Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarship in the Human Sciences:
Reframing the Discourse of Its Relevance. In Ademilokun, A., Onanuga, P.A, Oamen, F., Alfred, B.(eds)
(2021). Critical Discourse Analysis and the Linguistic of Social Media Interaction: A Festschrift for Rotimi
Taiwo, Ibadan: College Press, pp. 12-34
 Opeibi/Ope-Davies, T., and Adedeji, K.(2020). Aspects of Pragmatics in Online Election Campaigns
Discourse: A Study of Selected Political Websites in Nigeria. Mbisike, R. Akhimien, R., Oni-Buraimoh, O.
(eds), Trends in Semantics and Pragmatics. Lagos: Lagos State University Press. Pp 97-118
 Opeibi, T. (2021). Digitizing Humanities Research in Nigeria: An Exploration of Local Initiatives. Joseph, K,
& Risam, R.(eds) Digital Black Atlantic Volume. New York: Minnesota University Press
 Opeibi, Tunde. (2019). “The Twittersphere as Political Engagement Space: A Study of Social Media Usage
in Election Campaigns in Nigeria.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 9(1): 6, pp. 1–32. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.292
 Opeibi, Tunde (2018b). Gaining Political Capital through Social Media: A Study of Akinwunmi Ambode’s Twitter
Campaigns During 2015 Elections in Nigeria. Opeibi, T. and Schmied, J. (eds) (2018). From Virtual Sphere to Physical
Space: Exploring Language Use in Nigerian Democracy, REAL Studies Vol 13. Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag, pp 1-30
 Opeibi, Tunde (2016). Digital Media
and Civic Engagement in Nigeria: A
Corpus-Based Discourse Study of
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s
Facebook Page. Taiwo R., and Opeibi,
T. (eds.) (2016). Discourse of Digital
Civic Engagement: Perspectives from
the Developing World. New York:
Nova Science Publishers Inc. 1-34
(USA).
 Opeibi, Tunde (2015). New Media and
the Transformation of Political
Cultures in Nigeria: An exploration of
a corpus-based discourse approach.
REAL Studies 9.202-231
(GERMANY).
CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA
http://www.cedhul.com.ng/
Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021
THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE CENTRE
FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY
OF LAGOS
Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021
THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE CENTRE
FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY
OF LAGOS
Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021
WEBSITE OF THE CENTRE
OUR RESEARCH CLUSTERS AND ACTIVITIES
CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES , UNIVERSITY
LAGOS DIGITAL LAB/WORKSTATION IN SESSION
Title: The Use of New Technologies in Nigeria’s Democratic
Practice (2015 & 2019)
 The project is sponsored by the Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund)
 It seeks to construct a virtual repository of the use of technologies in Nigeria’s
democratic practice during two major electoral cycles( 2015 and 2019)
Executive Summary of the Server-Website Configuration
The server-website architecture as virtual repository is shown below. The
communication flow from the public web application to the locally hosted web
application would be via HTTPS between the communicating endpoints.
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AT THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL
HUMANITIES
THE SYSTEM ARCHITRCTURE IS
SHOWN GRAPHICALLY HERE
 The applications would be tiered. The local and public applications would operate
independently but integrated as part of a complete solution.
 Public IP addresses would be used for the local application for efficient routing purposes.
 These public IP addresses would be mapped to the DNS names to be used for the public
application. Then DNS Records would be mapped on the dashboard of the web host.
 Hardening to be done on the Windows Server to protect against internet-based attacks.
 The files would be managed by the web application, there is no need to use FTP which by
itself is not secured.
 Files would be accessed using HTTP GET requests.
 Application to be backed up also offline to ensure business continuity.
 Extra validations to be done on application layer to check files uploaded.
The traffic flow is shown below and would be modified as required.
THE TRAFFIC FLOW WITHIN THE
DIGITAL RESEARCH
ENVIRONMENT/SERVER
WEBSITE INTERACTION
The Digital Research Infrastructure has a central component
that can communicate with proxy outlets.
•researchers are be able to access digital infrastructure using
their designated authentication method (e.g.)
•At CEDHUL, we are developing user-interface digital
repository
•easier integration of services are established
•There is a seamless connection with other DRI proxy facilities
using the established protocols and must allow trustworthy
exchange of attributes between those proxies.
 The project relies on the application of a number of technologies to
explore the city as conceptualised and portrayed in the selected
literary texts.
 I present the results of the application of a digital tool (AntConc3.4)
in exploring the ‘mention’ of ‘Lagos’ in one of the literary texts
(Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease, 1970) being used for the
project. Notice the key words in context highlighted with different
colours in the screencast.
LITTECH: LAGOS PROJECT:
A Digital exploration of the Depiction of the City of Lagos in
Literature
Concordance lines highlighting Lagos as keyword in
context from the text, No Longer at Ease
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND
COLLABORATION
In the course of this journey, Professor Ope-Davies has collaborated with
colleagues in Europe and North America.
He has facilitated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the
University of Cologne, Germany and his home institution, the University of
Lagos
Another MOU is in the works between the University of Verona, Italy and the
University of Lagos through Professor Ope-Davies with a grant for 5-year
joint research projects on Digital & Inclusive Humanities.
He has been invited to present papers on Digital Humanities in Africa in
several conferences, workshops, symposia and seminars. Some of these are
listed below:
2022: The Prospect And Challenges Of Digital Humanities Laboratory In Emerging
Spaces @ @ the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations 2022 International
Conference, Tokyo, July 27-28, 2022
2022: Building A New Workspace For The Human Sciences: Digital Humanities
And The World of Work. @ Kola Daisi University, Faculty of Arts, Management
and Social Sciences Conference, June 28-30, 2022
2021: "Decolonising African Cultural/Historical Memory Data: A Digital
Humanities Approach" @ the 4th International Conference of the Digital
Humanities Association in South Africa, Nov 2021
2021: Corpus Building And Analysis: Exploring Digital Tools & Methods @
Colloquium organised by the Dept of English And Literary Studies, Federal
University, Oye-Ekiti September 18, 2021
2021: Decolonising Research and Preserving African Linguistic Posterity through Digital Infrastructure @ the 10th World
Congress of African Linguistics Conference, 9th June , 2021
2021: Retooling the Humanities in the Age of Technology: Prospects, Challenges And Possibilities in African Digital
Humanities @ the Lunch Symposium of the Methodology Department of the Institute of Polish Language, Polish
Academy of Sciences, January 15th, 2021
2020: Kansas’ Symposium on Digital African Storytelling Our Centre for Digital Humanities October 2020
2020: Digital Humanities 2.0.- A Symposium organised in Conjunction With Our Partners at The University of
Kansas, USA and the Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (DHAN), May 2020
2020: The Digitalisation of the Academia in Africa: Interrogating the Role of Technology in Reconfiguring African
Studies @ @ the Africa Multiple Cluster Digital Conference, University of Bayreuth, Germany. January 29-Febuary 2,
2020
2019: Digital Synergy For Data Management, Innovation And Development:
Creating Digital Research Enviroment In Translational And Transdisciplinary Studies @ International Conference,
Africa Multiple, Conversations And Building Networks, 30-31 October, 2019 @ University Of Bayreuth, Germany
2018: International Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4s), Sydney, Australia, August
2018
2017: Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States,
March 16-17, 2017
2016: 7th European Summer University in Digital Humanities, Leipzig University, Germany, July 19-29,
2016
2016: CSDH Digital Humanities Conference, at University of Calgary, Canada, May 30-June 1 2016
At the German
Presidential Palace,
Berlin (2014)
AT CHEMNITZ UNIVERSIY OF TECHNOLOGY,
GERMANY-2014
ON A HUMBOLDT
SPONSORED STUDY TOUR
OF GERMANY WITH MY
SPOUSE
At the Michigan
State University,
USA (2016)
SOME OF PROFESSOR OPE-DAVIES’ INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND AS
A VISITING FELLOW,-2017
At the University of
Sydney, Australia
(2017)
T THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, THE
NETHERLANDS- JULY 2019
AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF BAYREUTH,
GERMANY - NOV.
2019
AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE AFRICA
MULTIPLE CLUSTER DIGITAL
CONFERENCE
JANUARY 29- 2 FEBRUARY, 2020
@ THE UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH ,
GERMANY
James Akinola,
Michigan
Technological
University,
Frank Onuh, University of
Lethbridge, Canada
Augustin Farinola, University of
Birmingham, UK
Makanjuola
Ogunleye,
Virginia Tech
College,
Blacksburg,
Virginia, USA
Felix Bayode
Oke,
Loyola College,
Chicago, USA
SOME OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL
HUMANITIES NOW STUDYING ABROAD
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS TOOL FOR RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF HUMANITIES IN
EMERGING SPACES
 The Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos is a vibrant
and growing DH Lab committed to execute programmes and
projects that will continue to enhance the capacity of scholars using
social technologies and artificial intelligence to produce innovative
directions in digital information processing, social data analysis and
digitizing cultural heritage projects.
 We believe that with the use of new technologies, we will be
creating a new future and helping scholars in the humanities,
creative arts, music etc to by pass traditional methods of
engaging their publics and product consumers
INTO THE FUTURE
We submit that by adopting approaches
and methodologies that draw tools and
techniques, extensively, from digital media
technology and computer science,
humanities scholarship will begin to create
a new future and generate academic and
research value-chains that will deliver social
good.
AS TECHNOLOGIES
CONTINUE TO PROLIFERATE
AND PERVADE OUR ENTIRE
SOCIAL ECOSYSTEMS,
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A
DISCIPLINE AND RESEARCH
ORIENTATION WILL
CONTINUE TO BECOME
INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT,
RELEVANT AND CRITICAL TO
THE FUTURE OF HUMANITIES
DISCIPLINES AND IN
BUILDING KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY
Our projects will continue to explore
interactions between the humanities and
computer science, as well as between digital
society and culture.
We shall continue to deploy theories, tools and
techniques in ways in which digital media and
technologies can impact different disciplines in
the humanities and reconfigure African Studies
in more profound and impactful ways.
The Centre for Digital Humanities is commencing a Master’s
Degree Programme in Digital and Public Humanities in the next
academic year, other things being equal. .
In the next few years, Bachelor’s programme in Digital
Humanities will be mounted.
WE ARE OPEN FOR COLLABORATION!
WE RE OPEN FOR PARTNERSHIP!!
WE ARE OPEN FOR SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!
Professor Tunde Ope-Davies, PhD
Professor of English and Digital Linguistics; Digital Culture &
Discourse Studies
Visiting Professor & Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Germany
Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of
Lagos
Email: bopeibi@unilag.edu.ng
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CENTRE_FOR_DIGITAL_HUMANITIES-_OUR_JOURNEY_SO_FAR-_1.pptx

  • 1. CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS (CEDHUL): Our Journey So Far A Presentation by Professor Tunde Ope-Davies Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos 20th Jan. 2023
  • 2. WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS WELCOME TO THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES (The First Full-Fledged, Stand Alone, Centre for Digital Humanities in Africa) We are extremely excited and pleased to tell you our stories!! CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS: THE JOURNEY SO FAR
  • 3. NIVERSITY OF GOS, LAGOS, NIGERIA Founded in 1962 Over 55, 000 student population MY PHYSICAL LOCATION IN VIRTUAL SPACE
  • 4. Vice Chancellor Director, Research Management Office Director Deputy Director Asst. Director Asst. Director Deputy Vice Chancellor ( Academic & Research ) GOVERNANCE This slide shows the governance structure of the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos
  • 5. Professor Dr. Tunde Ope-Davies Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany Professor of Digital Linguistics, Digital Cultures & Discourse Studies Founder & Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos THE CENTRE FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
  • 6. OUR TEAM Dr Mojisola Shodipe ( New Media & Society Cluster) Dr Abayomi Awelewa ( Digital Literature & Society Cluster) Dr Ayodeji Adedara ( Digital Political Discourse Cluster) Dr Peter Oni (African Cultures & Epistemology Cluster)
  • 7. OUR TEAM (contd.) Dr Friday Aworawo Digital History & Cultural Heritage Cluster Joshua Ngbakor ICT/Technical Officer Amaechi Ogbonnia Data Entry Officer & Research Assistant
  • 8. ABOUT JOHN HENRY CHUKWUDI John Henry is currently a graduate student in France, studying his Master’s Degree in Rare Books and Digital Humanities at the University of Franche- Comté, Besancon, Franche-Comté. He is currently at the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos for a joint research, on a pilot project titled: LIT TECH: LAGOS: A Digital exploration of Lagos City in Selected Literary Texts OUR GUEST RESEARCHER FROM FRANCE
  • 9. Webcloud illustrating some of our preoccupations as digital humanities centre
  • 10. Our Centre’s Workflow Focusing on 4 key components: (i) Digital Humanities (ii) Digital (iii)Digital Scholarship (iv)Digital Research Environment
  • 11. The Centre started as a very small foremost Research Unit in Digital Humanities in late 2015 following the successful return of Professor Ope-Davies’ from his research stay in Germany sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. And having been exposed to the principles and practice of Digital Humanities in Germany, he returned to the University of Lagos armed with the vision to replicate and promote that new initiative in Nigeria and Africa. IN THE BEGINNING
  • 12. https://www.freeppt7.com Prof Ope-Davies’ passion and drive for value-added initiatives and innovative ideas led him to propose and vigorously promote the creation of the Digital Humanities Research Unit with the equipment donated to him by the Humboldt Foundation in 2015. Thus he was able to establish the 1st DH Lab in Nigeria. Some of the pictures at the inauguration of the unit are shown here. In the next 2 slides Professor Ope-Davies, Professor Jide Alo, Deputy Vice Chancellor( Academics & Research), Mr. Ingo Herbert, the Consul-General German Embassy Lagos
  • 13. A view of the Digital Humanities Laboratory and the guests of honour at the opening of the Lab in 2015
  • 14. Mr. Ingo Herbert, the Consul-General, German Embassy Lagos, Professor Ope-Davies, Professor Jide Alo, Deputy Vice Chancellor( Academics & Research), Professor Austin Nwagbara, English
  • 15. In the quest to ensure a wider dissemination and sharing of his knowledge and skills in Digital Humanities with his colleagues, he started organising workshops and seminars. Such academic events were meant to create more awareness about how digital humanities can fundamentally transform approaches and techniques in traditional humanities. His efforts and ideas were put into bigger practical implementation by organising the 1st Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities(LSSDH) in 2017 using his personal resources and some support from a few friends and colleagues. Here you have the poster showing some details about the Summer School. COMMENCEMENT OF CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMMES
  • 16. At the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 1st Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities with Professor Dan O’Donnell, from the University of Lethbridge, Canada, as Keynote Speaker
  • 17. Based on the success of the 1st Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities, he applied for an Alumni sponsorship grant from the Humboldt Foundation, Germany and was awarded a conference grant to organise the 1st Lagos Humboldt Conference in Digital Humanities in Nov 2017. Here is the poster showing some details about the Digital Humanities Conference Professor Dr Oyvind Eide from the University of Cologne, Germany was the keynote speaker.
  • 18. https://medium.com/research-methods-in-digital- humanities/digital-humanities-is-cc0a1ce6febb In late 2017, Professor Ope- Davies started exploring alternative sources of funding for expanded training and capacity building programmes targeted at junior scientists and postgraduate students who have shown tremendous enthusiasm in Digital Humanities during previous programmes. A number of them have started utilising this knowledge acquired to do some research and analyses in Digital Humanities-related works.
  • 19. The challenge to expand and sustain the Summer School as an annual event led to Professor Ope- Davies’ discussion with his friend, Professor Dr Øyvind Eide at the University of Cologne, Germany. With his support, they secured a funding facility from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany to jointly organise the 2nd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities(LSSDH-2018) from September 30-October 6, 2018 at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
  • 20. The 2018 Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities had over 100 attendees from Nigeria and some countries in West Africa (e.g. Cameroon, Ghana, Togo and Cote D’Ivoire). International experts in DH as facilitators came from Canada USA, and Germany. L-R: Dr Alex Gil, USA, Prof Oyvind Eide, Germany, Dr Morgan, USA, Prof O’Donnell, Canada, Prof Ope-Davies, Nigeria
  • 21. Professor Dan O’Donnell from Lethbridge University, Canada, delivering the opening keynote at the 2nd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humantities, 2018
  • 22. Some attendees with the facilitators at the 2018 Summer
  • 23. 2019: The Official Inauguration of the Centre for Digital Humanities(CEDHUL)- L-R: Prof Familoni, Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academic & Research) & Prof Olufunke Adeboye,
  • 24. The Centre for Digital Humanities officially inaugurated in 2019
  • 25. Special Guests Arriving for the Official Inauguration for the Centre for Digital Humanities in 2019
  • 26. Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021 University of Lagos formally approved the establishment of the Centre for Digital Humanities. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation again donated some research equipment to further support Professor Ope- Davies’ digital humanities initiatives At the Official commissioning of the Centre and hand over of equipment donated by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. L-R: Guest from Brazil, Prof Ope-Davies, Professor Bola Oboh, Director of Research, University of Lagos, Dr Kneissl from Humboldt Foundation, The Consul-General, German Embassy, Lagos
  • 27. By 2019, Professor Ope-Davies’ effort was recognized at the International level. He was invited to join a Scientific Committee to Organise a Digital Humanities workshop for African scholars titled DH-2019: The Perspective of Africa 1. Mirjam de Bruijn , Ledien University 2. Franciska de Jong – CLARIN ERIC 3. Tunde Opeibi, University of Lagos 4.Sara Petrollino, Utrecht University/Leiden University 5. Juan Steyn, SADiLaR, South Africa The Workshop was held at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands  The participants were also sponsored to attend the 2019 International Conference of the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations(ADHO) at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. 4th Princeton Annual Humanities Colloquium(PAHC) on Africa and Digital Humanities, November 16 & 17, 2020
  • 28. 4th Princeton Annual Humanities Colloquium(PAHC) on Africa and Digital Humanities, November 16 & 17, 2020
  • 29. 4 of the products of Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities(LSSDH) who won the ADHO Bursary awards in 2019 at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands: L-R: Dr Richard Ajah, Dr James Akinola, Modupe Agunbiade, Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos, Prof Tunde Ope-Davies(Opeibi), and Felix Oke. [July 2019] Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021
  • 30. Formal Inauguration of Network for Digital Humanities in Africa Following the co- organisation of the DH Africa Symposium in Leiden, the Netherlands, in July 2019 where the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos (CEDHUL )produced 5 attendees, we automatically became a key player in the formal establishment of the Network for Digital Humanities in Africa in 2020. [https://dhafrica.blog/]
  • 31. The success of these training and capacity building programmes made Prof Ope-Davies to continue to pursue the vision of spreading the knowledge and practice of digital humanities in Africa. The 3rd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities (LSSDH-2021) was a hybrid mode and it attracted about more than 20 participants from Sub-Saharan African countries and another 30 from Nigeria for physical classes in Lagos. Other participants from other parts of Africa participated virtually. Our international speakers and facilitators delivered their talks and DH 2022- - TOKYO
  • 32. DH 2022- - TOKYO Some of the attendees at the 3rd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities- 2021
  • 33. 3rd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities, May 9-15, 2021
  • 34. https://dhcommons.hypotheses.org/date/2021/04 As a researcher and scholar, Professor Ope- Davies, besides organising and presenting talks in several DH Conferences within and outside the country, he has published a number of academic articles in Digital Humanities and its allied areas. Some of these are listed below:  Opeibi, T.(2018). Reconfiguring Our Worlds Through Words: A Critical Mapping of Discourse in Human Socio- Cyberspace. Lagos: University of Lagos Press. Pp 141  Opeibi, T., and Schmied, J. (eds) (2018). From Virtual Sphere to Physical Space: Exploring Language Use in Nigerian Democracy, REAL Studies Vol 13. Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 206pp  Taiwo R., and Opeibi, T. (eds.) (2016). Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. 222 pp. (USA). SOME RESEARCH PRODUCTS IN DH FROM THE CENTRE
  • 35.  Ope-Davies/Opeibi, T. ( 2022c) Literature, Technology, Society: A digital reconstruction of cultural conflicts in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in Anne Schwan and Tara Thomson(eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pp 195-213  Ope-Davies, Tunde (2022b) The Digital Humanities as a Framework for Refining and Retooling the Humanities in Africa: A Case Study of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. International Journal of Humanities Arts & Computing (IJHAC), Vol 16 (2), 116-137.  Ope-Davies/Opeibi, T.(2022a). Digitalisation of the Academe in Africa: Interrogating the Role of Technology in Reconfiguring African Studies. In: Dreiser, Anja ; Samimi, Cyrus (eds.): Frontiers in African Digital Research. Ed.: Kroeker, Lena. Bayreuth , 2021. University of Bayreuth African Studies Online 10. https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005720 Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth Institute of African Studies Publication. Available at https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/5720/  Ope-Davies, Tunde (2021). Online remote language teaching during and beyond the pandemic: echoes from the Anchor University in Lagos. In Radić,N. Atabekova, A, Freddi, M., and Schmied, J. (eds). The world universities’ response to COVID-19: remote online language teaching. London: Researcpublishing.net DOI: 10.14705/rpnet.2021.52.1264 (
  • 36.  Opeibi/Ope-Davies, T. (2021). Digitizing Humanities Research in Nigeria: An Exploration of Local Initiatives. Joseph, K, & Risam, R.(eds) Digital Black Atlantic Volume. New York: Minnesota University Press  Ope-Davies/Opeibi, T.(2021) Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarship in the Human Sciences: Reframing the Discourse of Its Relevance. In Ademilokun, A., Onanuga, P.A, Oamen, F., Alfred, B.(eds) (2021). Critical Discourse Analysis and the Linguistic of Social Media Interaction: A Festschrift for Rotimi Taiwo, Ibadan: College Press, pp. 12-34  Opeibi/Ope-Davies, T., and Adedeji, K.(2020). Aspects of Pragmatics in Online Election Campaigns Discourse: A Study of Selected Political Websites in Nigeria. Mbisike, R. Akhimien, R., Oni-Buraimoh, O. (eds), Trends in Semantics and Pragmatics. Lagos: Lagos State University Press. Pp 97-118  Opeibi, T. (2021). Digitizing Humanities Research in Nigeria: An Exploration of Local Initiatives. Joseph, K, & Risam, R.(eds) Digital Black Atlantic Volume. New York: Minnesota University Press  Opeibi, Tunde. (2019). “The Twittersphere as Political Engagement Space: A Study of Social Media Usage in Election Campaigns in Nigeria.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 9(1): 6, pp. 1–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.292  Opeibi, Tunde (2018b). Gaining Political Capital through Social Media: A Study of Akinwunmi Ambode’s Twitter Campaigns During 2015 Elections in Nigeria. Opeibi, T. and Schmied, J. (eds) (2018). From Virtual Sphere to Physical Space: Exploring Language Use in Nigerian Democracy, REAL Studies Vol 13. Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag, pp 1-30
  • 37.  Opeibi, Tunde (2016). Digital Media and Civic Engagement in Nigeria: A Corpus-Based Discourse Study of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Facebook Page. Taiwo R., and Opeibi, T. (eds.) (2016). Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. 1-34 (USA).  Opeibi, Tunde (2015). New Media and the Transformation of Political Cultures in Nigeria: An exploration of a corpus-based discourse approach. REAL Studies 9.202-231 (GERMANY).
  • 38. CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA http://www.cedhul.com.ng/ Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021 THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
  • 39. Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021 THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
  • 40. Poland DH Symposium, January 15, 2021 WEBSITE OF THE CENTRE
  • 41. OUR RESEARCH CLUSTERS AND ACTIVITIES
  • 42. CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES , UNIVERSITY LAGOS DIGITAL LAB/WORKSTATION IN SESSION
  • 43.
  • 44. Title: The Use of New Technologies in Nigeria’s Democratic Practice (2015 & 2019)  The project is sponsored by the Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund)  It seeks to construct a virtual repository of the use of technologies in Nigeria’s democratic practice during two major electoral cycles( 2015 and 2019) Executive Summary of the Server-Website Configuration The server-website architecture as virtual repository is shown below. The communication flow from the public web application to the locally hosted web application would be via HTTPS between the communicating endpoints. ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AT THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES
  • 45. THE SYSTEM ARCHITRCTURE IS SHOWN GRAPHICALLY HERE
  • 46.  The applications would be tiered. The local and public applications would operate independently but integrated as part of a complete solution.  Public IP addresses would be used for the local application for efficient routing purposes.  These public IP addresses would be mapped to the DNS names to be used for the public application. Then DNS Records would be mapped on the dashboard of the web host.  Hardening to be done on the Windows Server to protect against internet-based attacks.  The files would be managed by the web application, there is no need to use FTP which by itself is not secured.  Files would be accessed using HTTP GET requests.  Application to be backed up also offline to ensure business continuity.  Extra validations to be done on application layer to check files uploaded. The traffic flow is shown below and would be modified as required.
  • 47. THE TRAFFIC FLOW WITHIN THE DIGITAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT/SERVER WEBSITE INTERACTION
  • 48. The Digital Research Infrastructure has a central component that can communicate with proxy outlets. •researchers are be able to access digital infrastructure using their designated authentication method (e.g.) •At CEDHUL, we are developing user-interface digital repository •easier integration of services are established •There is a seamless connection with other DRI proxy facilities using the established protocols and must allow trustworthy exchange of attributes between those proxies.
  • 49.  The project relies on the application of a number of technologies to explore the city as conceptualised and portrayed in the selected literary texts.  I present the results of the application of a digital tool (AntConc3.4) in exploring the ‘mention’ of ‘Lagos’ in one of the literary texts (Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease, 1970) being used for the project. Notice the key words in context highlighted with different colours in the screencast. LITTECH: LAGOS PROJECT: A Digital exploration of the Depiction of the City of Lagos in Literature
  • 50. Concordance lines highlighting Lagos as keyword in context from the text, No Longer at Ease
  • 51. INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION In the course of this journey, Professor Ope-Davies has collaborated with colleagues in Europe and North America. He has facilitated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of Cologne, Germany and his home institution, the University of Lagos Another MOU is in the works between the University of Verona, Italy and the University of Lagos through Professor Ope-Davies with a grant for 5-year joint research projects on Digital & Inclusive Humanities. He has been invited to present papers on Digital Humanities in Africa in several conferences, workshops, symposia and seminars. Some of these are listed below:
  • 52. 2022: The Prospect And Challenges Of Digital Humanities Laboratory In Emerging Spaces @ @ the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations 2022 International Conference, Tokyo, July 27-28, 2022 2022: Building A New Workspace For The Human Sciences: Digital Humanities And The World of Work. @ Kola Daisi University, Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences Conference, June 28-30, 2022 2021: "Decolonising African Cultural/Historical Memory Data: A Digital Humanities Approach" @ the 4th International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association in South Africa, Nov 2021 2021: Corpus Building And Analysis: Exploring Digital Tools & Methods @ Colloquium organised by the Dept of English And Literary Studies, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti September 18, 2021
  • 53. 2021: Decolonising Research and Preserving African Linguistic Posterity through Digital Infrastructure @ the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics Conference, 9th June , 2021 2021: Retooling the Humanities in the Age of Technology: Prospects, Challenges And Possibilities in African Digital Humanities @ the Lunch Symposium of the Methodology Department of the Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences, January 15th, 2021 2020: Kansas’ Symposium on Digital African Storytelling Our Centre for Digital Humanities October 2020 2020: Digital Humanities 2.0.- A Symposium organised in Conjunction With Our Partners at The University of Kansas, USA and the Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (DHAN), May 2020
  • 54. 2020: The Digitalisation of the Academia in Africa: Interrogating the Role of Technology in Reconfiguring African Studies @ @ the Africa Multiple Cluster Digital Conference, University of Bayreuth, Germany. January 29-Febuary 2, 2020 2019: Digital Synergy For Data Management, Innovation And Development: Creating Digital Research Enviroment In Translational And Transdisciplinary Studies @ International Conference, Africa Multiple, Conversations And Building Networks, 30-31 October, 2019 @ University Of Bayreuth, Germany 2018: International Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4s), Sydney, Australia, August 2018 2017: Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, March 16-17, 2017 2016: 7th European Summer University in Digital Humanities, Leipzig University, Germany, July 19-29, 2016 2016: CSDH Digital Humanities Conference, at University of Calgary, Canada, May 30-June 1 2016
  • 55. At the German Presidential Palace, Berlin (2014)
  • 56. AT CHEMNITZ UNIVERSIY OF TECHNOLOGY, GERMANY-2014
  • 57. ON A HUMBOLDT SPONSORED STUDY TOUR OF GERMANY WITH MY SPOUSE
  • 58. At the Michigan State University, USA (2016)
  • 59. SOME OF PROFESSOR OPE-DAVIES’ INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND AS A VISITING FELLOW,-2017
  • 60. At the University of Sydney, Australia (2017)
  • 61. T THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS- JULY 2019 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH, GERMANY - NOV. 2019
  • 62. AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE AFRICA MULTIPLE CLUSTER DIGITAL CONFERENCE JANUARY 29- 2 FEBRUARY, 2020 @ THE UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH , GERMANY
  • 63. James Akinola, Michigan Technological University, Frank Onuh, University of Lethbridge, Canada Augustin Farinola, University of Birmingham, UK Makanjuola Ogunleye, Virginia Tech College, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Felix Bayode Oke, Loyola College, Chicago, USA SOME OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES NOW STUDYING ABROAD
  • 64. DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS TOOL FOR RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF HUMANITIES IN EMERGING SPACES
  • 65.  The Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos is a vibrant and growing DH Lab committed to execute programmes and projects that will continue to enhance the capacity of scholars using social technologies and artificial intelligence to produce innovative directions in digital information processing, social data analysis and digitizing cultural heritage projects.  We believe that with the use of new technologies, we will be creating a new future and helping scholars in the humanities, creative arts, music etc to by pass traditional methods of engaging their publics and product consumers INTO THE FUTURE
  • 66. We submit that by adopting approaches and methodologies that draw tools and techniques, extensively, from digital media technology and computer science, humanities scholarship will begin to create a new future and generate academic and research value-chains that will deliver social good.
  • 67. AS TECHNOLOGIES CONTINUE TO PROLIFERATE AND PERVADE OUR ENTIRE SOCIAL ECOSYSTEMS, DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A DISCIPLINE AND RESEARCH ORIENTATION WILL CONTINUE TO BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT, RELEVANT AND CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE OF HUMANITIES DISCIPLINES AND IN BUILDING KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
  • 68. Our projects will continue to explore interactions between the humanities and computer science, as well as between digital society and culture. We shall continue to deploy theories, tools and techniques in ways in which digital media and technologies can impact different disciplines in the humanities and reconfigure African Studies in more profound and impactful ways.
  • 69. The Centre for Digital Humanities is commencing a Master’s Degree Programme in Digital and Public Humanities in the next academic year, other things being equal. . In the next few years, Bachelor’s programme in Digital Humanities will be mounted. WE ARE OPEN FOR COLLABORATION! WE RE OPEN FOR PARTNERSHIP!! WE ARE OPEN FOR SERIOUS BUSINESS!!!
  • 70. Professor Tunde Ope-Davies, PhD Professor of English and Digital Linguistics; Digital Culture & Discourse Studies Visiting Professor & Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos Email: bopeibi@unilag.edu.ng
  • 71. CLOSE THE VIDEO WITH THE CHORUS OF UNILAG ANTHEM Please Check the YOUTUBE
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