About
Project Team
Max Bach, based in Berlin, brought his expertise in proofreading and editing international and multi-dimensional publications (digital and printed) to this project. The preservation of the diverse voices and a mix of English standards and Edo grammar in the text was a key baseline for the proofreading. The Digital Benin-authored texts were proofread, while the data provided by the institutions was not changed at a
The logo for Digital Benin was designed by the Agency for Branddesign MüllerValentini prior to the beginning of the project in 2020.
Digital Benin collates digital material from institutions, and some of this material is inherently colonial and contains words, terms and phrases that are inaccurate, derogatory and harmful towards African and African diasporic communities. Catalogue transcriptions, book titles, exhibition titles and museum titles may contain harmful terms. We recognise the potential for the material to cause physical and mental distress as well as evoke strong emotions. Owing to the scale of the collection’s data, a process to implement sensitive-content warnings in the displayed data is still incomplete. The material within the catalogue does not represent Digital Benin’s views. Digital Benin maintains a strong anti-colonial, anti-racist position and affirms its support for centring the humanity of historically marginalised and disenfranchised communities. Read more about the background of this statement here