A new publication examining how digital technologies and indigenous knowledge can advance sustainable development in Africa.
Olatoun Gabi-Williams, curator of Living Sustainably Here: African Perspectives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), unveiled the second volume, titled “Our Digital Lives and Indigenous Pathways”, during the CANEX WKND2026 at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos.
Gabi-Williams said the anthology examined the impact of digital technologies on African societies, highlighting their benefits, risks and the importance of preserving indigenous knowledge systems.
She said the publication brought together professionals from different fields to share experiences demonstrating how sustainability could be achieved through knowledge, skills and resourcefulness.
According to her, the anthology seeks to amplify African voices in local and global development conversations while presenting sustainability as both a personal responsibility and a national undertaking.
She said the second volume explored how indigenous knowledge and emerging technologies could complement one another while ensuring that African knowledge remained rooted in local experiences and under African stewardship.
Gabi-Williams highlighted contributions by Pelumi Olatunji on indigenous architecture and climate-resilient engineering, as well as Abdulazeez Shomade and Nicole Shomade on traditional Yoruba conservation practices.
She also cited Malik Afegbua’s exploration of digital technologies as opportunities for economic empowerment and cultural preservation, and Taiwo Egunjobi’s essay, Beyond Lagos, which examined independent filmmaking in Ibadan, Oyo State.
According to her, Egunjobi’s contribution highlighted how filmmakers could overcome infrastructural challenges through resourcefulness and digital technologies while expanding film production beyond Lagos.
Gabi-Williams said the first volume of the anthology, Paths to Knowledge: Production, Access, Literacy, and Sustainable Development, focused on knowledge creation, access and its value to sustainable development.
The curator said the project was seeking partnerships, wider publicity and translations of the publications into foreign and indigenous languages to broaden access and readership. (NAN)
