Digital Black European Archive

The digital archive project addresses the challenges posed by the transnational and multilingual formation of the African diaspora in Europe (and elsewhere) on the one hand and by the marginalizing of Black knowledge production in European societies, including institutions like museums and universities, on the other. The archive will both facilitate the digitization of physical documents and allow for a mapping of sites of knowledge production and archiving across Europe.

Link to our digitizing manual

Digitization has revolutionized archival research by making resources in local archives globally accessible, allowing for new levels of engagement that are both broader, granting access to those who cannot physically visit the archives, and deeper, since digital copies are far less fragile than the originals. Digitization can also revolutionize what gets archived and by whom.

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Afrogerman Magazine Afrekete (1988-1990)