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Explore African histories, encounter original sources and follow ideas into new questions. Dikan connects the care of knowledge with its continued use.

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Study and research

Dikan Library & Archives

Resources for study, research and questions of your own.

An audio digitisation workstation at Dikan.
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Conservation and digitisation

Awo Institute

The care of historical materials and the context they carry.

Participants gathered around a table during a HerPress class session.
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Learning and practice

Education

Learning through inquiry, practical skills and shared experience.

A woman and child looking at photographs on an exhibition wall.
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Exhibitions and interpretation

Ahenfie

African histories and ideas in public conversation.

A historical photograph from the Dikan image archive.
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Sources and perspectives

Knowledge is living and varied.

African knowledge continues to grow through people’s experiences and discoveries today. Historical sources, contemporary practice and community knowledge offer different ways to understand the past and consider the present.

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You may be following a particular subject or encountering it for the first time. Begin with the area of Dikan’s work that interests you.

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