Documenting Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa : Select papers from the Nordic Africa Documentation Project workshop 26–27 November 2009, Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

This publication brings together a number of the ‘thinkpieces’ prepared for a workshop convened by the Nordic Africa Institute in Pretoria, South Africa, on 26–27 November, 2009. The workshop marked the end of the Institute’s Documentation Project on Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa. Leading scholars, researchers and others, from both the Nordic countries and southern Africa, concerned with documenting those struggles, attended the workshop. The papers included here concern both the history of those struggles and the sources for that history.

CONTENTS: PART 1. Aspects of the History of Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa -- Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society/Håkan Thörn -- Southern African Liberation Struggles and the Nordic Countries: Ideas for Research/Harri Siiskonen -- International Solidarity and Struggle Archives: Finnish Support to the Liberation Struggle in Namibia and Mozambique/Pekka Peltola -- On the Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa/Henning Melber -- Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle Recycled: Remembering the Principles of the Struggle in Political Ways/Lene Bull Christiansen -- PART 2 Sources for the History of Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa -- Issues in Writing on Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa/Chris Saunders -- Liberation Archives in South Africa: An Overview/Brown Bavusile Maaba -- Liberation Struggle Material and Digital Technologies: Opportunitiesand Obstacles/William Minter -- Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) and Digital Preservation/Pat Liebetrau -- Assessing Information in South Africa’s Department of Defence Archives/Gary Baines -- Rescuing Zimbabwe’s 'Other' Liberation Archives/Gerald Chikozho Mazarire -- Final Project Report/Proscovia Svärd