Social Dynamics, Volume 50, Issue 1 (2024)

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After the fire: loss, archive and African studies

Editorial

Editorial
After the fire: loss, archive and African studies
Duane Jethro & Alírio Karina
Pages: 1-15
Published online: 15 May 2024
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Research Article

Article
Record-keeping and political advocacy in late colonial Uganda: the case of Abataka Abasoga, Busoga, 1940 to 1950
William Musamba
Pages: 16-25
Published online: 07 Apr 2024
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Out of the ashes: rethinking loss in the African archive
Edwina D. Ashie-Nikoi
Pages: 26-42
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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The dysfunctional copy: “Mali Magic,” loss and the digital remake of the Timbuktu archive
Susana Molins Lliteras
Pages: 43-59
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Audiovisual artefacts: the African politics of moving image loss
Jennifer Blaylock
Pages: 60-75
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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Interview

Discussion
A kind of horror of the archive: a conversation between Onyeka Igwe and Litheko Modisane
Onyeka Igwe & Litheko Modisane
Pages: 76-82
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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Roundtable

Reflections on fire as postcolonial metaphor of rupture
Litheko Modisane
Pages: 83-86
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Archive history in Zambia as a history of loss
Duncan Money & Miyanda Simabwachi
Pages: 87-91
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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“All who care to look”: loss and renewal in the wake of the Jagger library fire
Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk & Martha Evans
Pages: 92-96
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Mixed memories: rethinking the loss and transformation of the colonial heritage archive in the aftermath of the Jagger Library inferno and Rhodes Must Fall Movement
Robert T. Nyamushosho & Njabulo Chipangura
Pages: 97-101
Published online: 28 Feb 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Ghosts of archive: deconstructive intersectionality and praxis
by Verne Harris, London, Routledge, 2020, x + 155 pp., £38.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0367681142
Carine Zaayman
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Book review

Book Review
“Little research value”: African Estate records and colonial gaps in a post-colonial national archive
by Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2017, xiii + 262 pp., CHF32.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3905758788
Nashilongweshipwe Sakaria
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 10 Mar 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
(W)archives: archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art
edited by Daniela Agostinho, Solveig Gade, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and Kristin Veel, Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2020, xxxv + 416 pp., €24.00 (softcover), ISBN 978-3-95679-456-8
Himal Ramji
Pages: 107-108
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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General Papers

Article
Johannesburg’s shitty little river: faecal discourse and discontent regarding the Jukskei
Jessica Webster & Mehita Iqani
Pages: 109-127
Published online: 10 Mar 2024
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