Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Indiana University Press in Africa Today
- Vol. 52 (2), 55-77
- https://doi.org/10.1353/at.2006.0009
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.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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