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Curating the Colonial Past

Name: Curating the Colonial Past
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009525411
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Contributors:

Riley Linebaugh

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History

Book Subcategory:

Africa

Series:

African Studies

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Release Date:

10/2/2025

ISBN 13:

9781009525411

Weight:

1.38 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inches

Pages:

342

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In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonies approaching independence. The Colonial Office in London arranged the deposit of these documents in high security facilities, where they remained inaccessible until 2011 following a compensation suit by Kenyan survivors of British colonial rule against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Curating the Colonial Past presents the first full length exploration of these 'migrated archives', chronicling the struggle between British attempts to conceal and Kenyan efforts to reveal evidence of the colonial past. Neither displayed nor destroyed, Riley Linebaugh explores how these records formed an archival limbo in which the British government delayed moral and legal judgement of empire. Yet, these practices did not go unchallenged. Linebaugh demonstrates how disputes over the 'migrated archives' facilitated the continuation of anticolonial sovereignty struggles beyond independence, struggles which persist into the present.

About the Author
Linebaugh, Riley: - Riley Linebaugh is a Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in British History at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where her research focuses on the history of British colonial archives. Linebaugh has also worked as an archivist at the Kabale and Jinja District Archives and High Court of Justice in Kampala, Uganda. Her work with James Lowry on the Archival Colour Line was awarded the Society of American Archivists' Archival History Award.

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