How are virtual resources transforming the ways
East Africans experience health and social change?

The first of its kind at the University of Kansas, we are a humanities-based “lab” comprised of Africanist faculty and Kiswahili students. Our lab offers a new model for research that emphasizes an interdisciplinary team approach to the study of pressing global social problems. Our lab is working to make a meaningful contribution to the Community Tool Box by engaging with the following questions: How do East African communities use digital technologies and resources to meet local demands? What are the social implications of translation and localization projects in digital health initiatives? How does one create Kiswahili models that reflect multicultural perspectives on health and development? How do we integrate ongoing research projects across sub-Saharan Africa with the Community Tool Box?