Chao Maina is a digital heritage specialist, a digital humanities scholar and a headstrong historian whose activism is for a contested present, an erased past and an alternative future.

Njeri and Chao had a great conversation about why we should care about our past and why for her, preserving it is now more important than ever. How do lost memory & a lost history impact who we are, how we view ourselves and our values?

Our discussion on the intersection of tech & heritage,  the challenges & opportunities in digitizing the African heritage whilst still ensuring access, sustainability and fair usage.

Hear our thoughts on restitution and repatriation as renewed calls to recover & ongoing efforts to return all works of art and culture stolen or taken from Africa to Europe grow louder.  Chao has some strong reactions to ongoing arguments on our inability & lack of resources to preserve. Also is there a  new scramble for Africa around information resources to digitize?

Catch all this as Chao also explains to Njeri about her latest and upcoming project which will be an immersive film audio experience at Karura forest.

Follow the work that Chao is doing on https://headstronghistorian.com/

Watch the podcast video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY9Yh1RrnfdlH0np724DWaA