Digitization, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles: The Aluka Project

Allen Isaacman; Premesh Lalu; Thomas Nygren

doi:10.2979/aft.2005.52.2.54

Digitization, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles: The Aluka Project

Allen Isaacman, Premesh Lalu, Thomas Nygren

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	55-77
Number of pages	23
Journal	Africa Today
Volume	52
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2979/aft.2005.52.2.54
State	Published - 2005

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