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Mutanu Kyany’a from the African Digital Heritage joins the C²DH for a short term fellowship from 1 to 13 June 2026.

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Mutanu Kyany’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.

Objectives

“My visit to the C²DH builds on an already active relationship between ADH and the Centre, rooted in our collaboration on ‘The Histories We Tell’, a public programming series on participatory history from across Africa. This residency gives us the space to deepen that relationship in two concrete directions. The first is moving ADH’s vision for a Heritage Centre for Digitisation and Research of Kenya’s Cultural Heritage from idea to reality. The C²DH’s expertise in digital history methods and research partnerships makes it a natural institutional anchor for that work, and my time here is an opportunity to learn what it would actually take to build such a centre in an African context.

The second is building a sustained track on public history in Africa, combining ADH’s community-based practice with C²DH’s methodological depth and European academic networks, to produce joint research, shared programming, and long-term scholarly exchange.”