Assistant Professor of History Elizabeth Jacob Receives Modern Endangered Archives Program Grant

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A still from 022 documentary Je reste photographe, directed by Léki Dago with an all-African team

Assistant Professor of History Elizabeth Jacob and collaborator Ananias Léki Dago, an Ivorian professional photographer, recently won a project grant from UCLA’s Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) to digitize the personal archive of Paul Kodjo, who is widely considered the “father of Ivorian photography.” In 2008, Kodjo conferred his collection to Léki Dago. Since then, Dago has worked to restore and preserve the Kodjo archive which documents the first decades of Ivorian independence. 

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