Sunday Okobi
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Kadri Hamzat, will at the moment inaugurate the dual amenities of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CEDHUL), the University of Lagos’ flagship hub for analysis and coaching on the assembly level of tradition and computation.
While inaugurating the amenities, Hamzat will lend the complete weight of the Lagos State Government to a venture that speaks on to the state’s ambition for innovation, youth empowerment and a future-ready workforce.
Speaking forward of the occasion, the primary professor of Digital Humanities in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa and Founding Director of CEDHUL, Professor Babatunde Olusola Ope-Davies, mentioned: “We are redefining the future of the Humanities… What we celebrate is the fruit of many hands: the university, our partners at home and abroad, and now the Government of Lagos State. We are grateful to His Excellency for standing with us as we open these doors to a new generation of African digital scholars.”
The ceremony can even be attended by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Principal Officers, Deans, companions, students, college students and members of the press on the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos, Akoka.
The inauguration, in accordance with him, will mark a defining second for CEDHUL, sub-Saharan Africa’s first devoted Digital Humanities centre.
“Founded in 2019, the Centre has grown from a bold idea into a continental reference point, where African languages, archives, cultures and stories meet data, computation and artificial intelligence. The twin facilities will now house the Centre’s Senate-approved Postgraduate Diploma, Master’s and Doctoral programmes in Digital Humanities, the first of their kind in the region,” he mentioned.
Ope-Davis added “Hamzat’s presence, and his personal act of inaugurating the facilities, signals a powerful alignment between the Lagos State Government’s vision of a smart, knowledge-driven megacity and the university’s mission to produce scholars who can read both the manuscript and the machine. An engineer, technocrat and long-standing advocate of innovation in public life, the deputy governor brings to the occasion a conviction that Lagos must not only consume technology but shape it.”
He described the event as “the opening of a doorway, not only a constructing.
“The facilities are where that meeting happens: where we are redefining the future of the humanities; where Africa’s inherited knowledge is preserved, interpreted and carried forward with the tools of the digital age. We are deeply honoured that His Excellency will inaugurate them.”
