This issue is the outcome of a successful collaboration between members of an editorial team who work in three continents: Africa, Europe and America. While remote scientific interaction has become commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing the editorial process has entailed confrontation of research practices entrenched in different social spaces. We could have feared that our ideologies might imbue our cultural representations and the acceptability of scientific standards. On a global scale, we were confronted with different challenges that reflected structural inequity in access to information in academia. This uneven access to information and knowledge about digital humanities scholarship across the South/West divide is egregious. Compounding this divide, the linguistic bias of leading international outlets of digital humanities research, like IJHAC, may, in no small measure, account for the limited representativity of experiences in digital humanities across linguistic spaces in Africa.
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