TY - JOUR
KW - Knowledge
KW - Ndau
KW - Revitalization
KW - Tonga
KW - Tonga Language and Culture Committee (TOLACCO)
KW - Zimbabwe
KW - archival activism
KW - Borderlands
KW - Community archives
KW - ethnicity
KW - indigenous ethnic
KW - Minority groups
AU - Sindiso Bhebhe
AB - The main purpose of this article is to bring to the fore the nexus between what borderlands theory stands for and the mushrooming of community archives in these areas as a form of counter-archiving and documenting the  other . Zimbabwe s borderlands are uniquely inhabited by the marginalised ethnic indigenous groups of people. This prevalent borderland phenomenon has seen the growth of community archives which border on archival activism. Therefore, this article, through literature review interrogates further this borderland phenomenon by giving an overview picture of the nexus between community archives and Zimbabwe s borderlands. One of the findings reveals that these community archives which come in different formats such as archives, museums, trusts, oral history groups and language associations seem to be a counter move by the marginalised to tell their stories which are side-lined by those in power. It is now almost axiomatic to conclude that the stories of those in borderlands are scarcely documented in the mainstream heritage institutions in Zimbabwe. Also, one of the leitmotifs which runs through the article is how the concepts of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) are used by community archives in borderlands to further their objectives.
BT - Information Development
DA - mar
DO - 10.1177/02666669231173060
LA - English
M1 - 1
N1 - Num Pages: 14 Place: London Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd Web of Science ID: WOS:001001015900001
N2 - The main purpose of this article is to bring to the fore the nexus between what borderlands theory stands for and the mushrooming of community archives in these areas as a form of counter-archiving and documenting the  other . Zimbabwe s borderlands are uniquely inhabited by the marginalised ethnic indigenous groups of people. This prevalent borderland phenomenon has seen the growth of community archives which border on archival activism. Therefore, this article, through literature review interrogates further this borderland phenomenon by giving an overview picture of the nexus between community archives and Zimbabwe s borderlands. One of the findings reveals that these community archives which come in different formats such as archives, museums, trusts, oral history groups and language associations seem to be a counter move by the marginalised to tell their stories which are side-lined by those in power. It is now almost axiomatic to conclude that the stories of those in borderlands are scarcely documented in the mainstream heritage institutions in Zimbabwe. Also, one of the leitmotifs which runs through the article is how the concepts of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) are used by community archives in borderlands to further their objectives.
PY - 2025
SP - 106
EP - 119
T2 - Information Development
TI - Borderland s theory in indigenous ethnic community archiving
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02666669231173060
VL - 41
SN - 0266-6669, 1741-6469
ER -