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Extract from ‘The Journey’: Responses to the archive

Friday Emmanuel Iduma - 20 Nov 2020

This sequence of texts was written in response to various photographs of Nigeria made between 1920 and 1929 that form part of the Colonial Office photographic collection

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 12 Nov 2020

As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

Friday Niren Tolsi - 17 Sep 2020

Saho’s Omar Badsha believes in the power of people telling their own stories, but more funding to support this practice is crucial

Meet the founder of Accra’s one-woman library

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 3 Jul 2020

Sylvia Arthur founded the Library for Africa and the African Diaspora to house her collection and share it with other readers

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

Friday Kwanele Sosibo - 27 May 2020

An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project

Mandela archive as a living system

Article Nicky Willemse - 10 May 2019

The existing Mandela biographies don't tell the whole story

Department fails to protect archives and democracy

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Mar 2015

The archival system is in trouble. To think that we can have a well-ordered land reform process is unrealistic.

How to keep SA’s literary treasures in the country

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Sep 2012

If public institutions are to be trusted, they have to fight to defend their holdings, but preserving our literary archives is complicated.

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