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18 October 2026

Reconstructed retrospectively on 2026-10-20 from reviewed sources originally published on this date. This is not an edition published by AFROSCOPE Daily at the time, and it is not an exhaustive record. Original source dates and credits remain on every story.

Yinka Shonibare seated outdoors in Leeds beside his colourful Hibiscus Rising sculpture. — Yinka Shonibare, founder of G.A.S. and the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, beside Hibiscus Rising in Leeds on 24 November 2023. Founder context, not a photograph of the Biblio-Graph partnership. Commons version cropped from the original.David Lindsay on behalf of LEEDS 2023 (Leeds Culture Trust); original sculpture by Yinka Shonibare (pictured) · CC BY-SA 2.0

Announcement-based coverageWest Africa

G.A.S. links collections and publishing through Biblio-Graph

G.A.S. Foundation and the Yinka Shonibare Foundation are developing new ways to make their collections accessible online through a partnership with Archival Consciousness. Announced on 18 October, the collaboration uses Biblio-Graph to connect archiving and publishing. A new G.A.S. Publish platform will support Re:assemblages, with an Archive Futures essay series planned for January 2027. The foundation says the work will also preserve material from its African Arts Libraries network.

By AFROSCOPE DailySource: G.A.S. FoundationSource posted 18 Oct 2026