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

This chapter provides case studies of indigenous archives that have been created and preserved in postcolonial contexts, such as the memorialisation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community at South Africa’s Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action Archive. In this regard, special emphasis is placed on how they used oral history to accomplish this. They are not only interested in preserving pre-apartheid historical records but they are also involved in documenting contemporary post-apartheid challenges faced by the LGBTI community. This case study provides evidence that it is possible to decolonise and (re)Africanise archives in the postcolonial era.