Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.

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Mpho Ngoepe is a professor of information science and the Executive Director of Library and Information Services at the University of South Africa (Unisa). He was previously the Head of Information Science at the same institution. He worked for several organisations, including the National Archives of South Africa and the Auditor-General of South Africa. His research interests include archives, libraries, records management, indigenous archives, authentication, oral history, literature, and archival theories.

Sindiso Bhebhe is a post doctoral research fellow at the University of South Africa (Unisa). He holds a PhD in Information Science from Unisa. He has previously worked for the National Archives of Zimbabwe, and the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. His research interests include oral history, indigenous archives, and digital records management.

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Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.

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Prologue: Reimagining Indigenous Archives

1 Conceptualisation and recontextualisation of indigenous archival constructs

2 Decolonisation or (re)Africanisation of archives?

3 Authentication of indigenous archives

4 Ownership, copyright, and 'copyleft' of indigenous archives

5 Decolonisation and (re)Africanisation in action: a case study of community memory practices

6 Sustainable structures for indigenous archives in the postcolonial context

Epilogue: Reflections and reflexivity