![]() It is in this context that I would like to explore the archives of Southern Africa: archives as places of memory and archives that need preservation desperatelyAfrican archives are at a crossroads. His objective is to free the African mind from the enslavement that colonialism brought, which almost crushed the African soul and distorted, banished, and almost destroyed this memory. Mbeki also refers to the African Renaissance as a “journey of self-discovery and the restoration of our self-esteem.” Mbeki’s own definition of the African Renaissance embraces “marriage of memory and dream, of past and future”. When President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa announced his dream for Africa and called it the African Renaissance, he did not envisage a rebirth, but rather a rediscovery of what Africa once was: a people free in mind and soul, capable of original thought, confident to live and to embrace life holistically, united with itself, nature and God: “The beginning of our rebirth as a Continent must be our own rediscovery of our soul”.
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