Technology Times (Nigeria): Lagos Archives Going Digital: LASRAB, Wikimedia Nigeria in talks to unlock history. “The Lagos State Government is launching a sweeping digitisation of its public records, as the Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) begins converting historical documents into digital formats to safeguard the heritage of Nigeria’s most populous state.”
This is Colossal: This Artist-Run Archive Preserves Endangered Photographic Negatives in a Celebration of Lagos. “During a trip to Lagos in 2015, Karl Ohiri noticed something alarming. The British-Nigerian artist observed how long-running photography studios in the city were destroying their archives—sometimes incidentally, sometimes purposely—as they shuttered or moved out of the city […]
Technology Times (Nigeria): LASRAB launches digital archive to preserve Lagos heritage. “The Lagos State Government is launching a sweeping digitisation of its public records, as the Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) begins converting historical documents into digital formats to safeguard the heritage of Nigeria’s most populous state.”