Lalu, PremeshIsaacman, AllenNygren, Tom22/12/201122/12/20112005Isaacman, 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): 55-770001-9887https://hdl.handle.net/10566/299http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/at/summary/v052/52.2isaacman.htmlThis 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.enThis is the author post-print version of the published article. Readers may make use of the material providing due attribution is given.DigitizationSouthern AfricaPostcolonialismLiberation struggleArticle