The Black Historical past DAO, which is curated by members of its neighborhood, seeks to deal with the issue of preserving historical African textual content, an identical drawback literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. tried to deal with years in the past, Kennedy stated. That challenge fell in need of preserving the Timbuktu manuscripts, after Islamist rebels took management in 2013 and destroyed a lot of paperwork. Some, nonetheless, have been saved and now stay on-line.
