References and resources about African knowledge preservation and digital heritage.
On African Knowledge Preservation
- UNESCO — Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). The international framework for protecting oral traditions and living heritage.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah — In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992). Essential reading on African identity, culture, and the challenge of preservation.
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o — Decolonising the Mind (1986). On language, knowledge, and cultural power.
On Igbo Documentation
- M.M. Green — Igbo Village Affairs (1947). Early ethnographic record of Igbo community life.
- Victor Uchendu — The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (1965). Standard introductory anthropological account.
- Nwachukwu-Agbada — various works on Igbo oral literature and proverbs.
Digital Heritage
- Internet Archive — archive.org — preserves digital content at risk of loss.
- JSTOR Global Plants — model for open academic knowledge sharing.
- Wikipedia Foundation — lessons in community-built knowledge commons.