Seminar: The African Archive Experience; Challenges in Archival Curation and Archival-Based Research Work in West Africa
THE AFRICAN ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE
CHALLENGES IN ARCHIVAL CURATION AND ARCHIVAL-BASED RESEARCH WORK IN WEST AFRICA
12.30pm Tuesday 11th July 2023
Room G.04 Liverpool School of Architecture Building, Abercromby Square, Liverpool
Zoom Link: Contact ijackson@liverpool.ac.uk for the link
Abstract:
We are delighted to be able to host Professor Ayo Olukoju (Institute of African and Diaspora studies, University of Lagos) and Professor Sam Ntewusu (Institute of African Studies University of Ghana) who are visiting the University of Liverpool and also the Unilever Archives to explore the possibilities of future collaborative research and teaching activities across our institutions and others in NW England.
Both Professors are historians who have worked with archival sources in their research in West Africa. They have generously agreed to share, through this seminar, the challenges and issues with working with archival material and sources from a West African perspective and also some of the hopes they have for future collaborations.
Do join us to hear their views and also join the conversation – how do we make the most of archives in the 21st century in different locations and places? Importantly do we need to decolonise the archive, and if so how?
All Welcome:
A sandwich lunch will be provided at Room G.04
Professor Ola Uduku
Co-director AHUWA Research Centre
Hosted by the AHUWA Research centre in association with Unilever Archives, School of History and Institutes of African Studies and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Ghana, and the University of Lagos
Transnational Architecture Group 