Dar Kofa is the name of one of the oldest community houses in Tunis, created for people who had been displaced against their will and enslaved.

Dar, "house" in Arabic, and Kofa, "door" in Hausa. Joined together, these two words symbolise the link between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa that has been expressed in many cultural forms.

Darkofa.com is a digital archival, research, and learning tool for stambeli, an endangered ritual healing music developed by Black people in Tunisia, as well as related traditions that have existed before or in parallel.

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Historical and field recordings, visual materials and written sources. A growing, searchable repository connecting stories across the region.