Launching Volta River Commodities

My CHI project, Volta River Commodities, is built around a dataset that I created from West African colonial trade statistics. Officials from the Gold Coast (what is now Ghana) were stationed at preventative stations along the colony’s borders to control the...

Cleaning Trade Data

A major part of my CHI project is cleaning trade data that I collected from the Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD) in Accra and Tamale, Ghana that includes paper records of the goods carried by traders across the Volta River. The statistics,...

Introductory R and RStudio Workshop

As a returning CHI fellow, I was tasked with organizing a workshop on a digital humanities tool of my choice. I knew I wanted to do something related to data analysis and visualization and eventually decided on the computing language R, which I used last year to clean...

Commodities on the Volta River

For my CHI project, I plan to publish a clean dataset composed of information about trade goods carried across the Volta River in West Africa. An important nexus of trade from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the Volta River was traversed by traders moving...

Digital Tools and Ghana Studies

In July, the Ghana Studies Association held a conference in Accra. While attending the panels, I thought about how the digital humanities can feature in Ghana Studies scholarship. The conference featured presentations across the humanities and social sciences...