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

Africa Today

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 55-77

  Isaacman, Allen ^a   Lalu, Premesh ^b   Nygren, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c Aluka

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICAL CHANGE; POST-COLONIALISM;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33846494073     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/aft.2005.52.2.54     Document Type: Article

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