European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists,
ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these …

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists,
ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these …

During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and
Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and …

Tiffany Shellam scholar Pat Dudgeon has written:'In addition to establishing that the
colonised were inferior in every way, the process of colonisation also determined who …

Leading interviews in prison, in a post-colonial and post-authoritarian democracy, raises
many questions as to the problematic definition of consent, the power dynamics at play and …

Talking with informants in the field lies at the methodological heart of Africanist history and
anthropology. Historians and anthropologists rely on formal and informal interviews …

Inspired by my experiences in archives and research fields in Northern Nigeria, this essay
analyzes four overlapping phenomena: archival fragmentation, the politicization of data and …

The centenary commemoration of the Anglo-Boer War took place during 1999. As well as
the various meetings and conferences which were organised in commemoration of the war …

Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, and Helen Ludlow, is an interesting and
accessible book that provides a tangible lesson: that archives come into being through …

The 2001 launch of the fifth volume of the James Stuart Archive reinforces this publication's
reputation as a mother lode of primary evidence. The Archive's existence is largely due to …