Preface / Pal Aluwalia -- Introduction: Politics of African anticolonial archive / Isaac A. Kamola and Shiera S. el-Malik -- Archiving the universal: commonwealth, truth and pluralism in international law / Siba Grovogui -- Curating and politics: searching for coherency in archives / Shiera S. el-Malik -- Comradeship, committed and conscious: the anticolonial archive speaks to our times / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Realism without abstraction: Amílcar Cabral and a politics of the world / Isaac Kamola -- Inviting Marianne to dance: Congolese rumba Lingala as an archive against monument / Míde Ní Shúilleabháin -- Recollections of past events of British colonial rule in northern Ghana, 1900-1956 / Christopher Azaare Anabila -- The skin and the stool: re-crafting histories of belonging in northern Ghana / Anatoli Ignatov -- "But for God's sake, let's decolonize!": self-determination and sovereignty and/as the limits of anticolonial archive / Timothy Vasko -- The hip-hop DJ as black archaeologist: Madlib's Beat Konducta in Africa and the politics of memory / Seth M. Markle -- Archiving Thomas Sankara's presence: metamorphoses of memory and revolution in Burkina Faso / Allen Stack -- Afterword: Archives, life, and counter-archives / Sam Opondo. |