Digitisation, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles
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Date
2005
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Indiana University Press
Abstract
This paper describes the history of an initiative to digitize a postcolonial archive on the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa. The authors outline the intellectual architecture of the project and the complex epistemological, political, and technical challenges that they confronted in their endeavor to construct a digital archive that might help reorient scholarly debates on the struggle for liberation.
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Digitization, Southern Africa, Postcolonialism, Liberation struggle
Citation
Isaacman, A., Lalu, P., & Nygren, T. (2005). Digitisation, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles: The Aluka project. Africa Today, 52 (2): 55-77