'I barely found anything' — Seizing the Means of Archival Production in the Aftermath of Atrocity

A public lecture co-hosted by McGregor Museum.

Date: Tuesday, 15 April
Time: 18:00
Venue: McGregor Museum, 7-11 Atlas Street, Kimberley
Cost: No charge
Speaker: Dr Richard Raber

About the Lecture:
The lecture is about an individual and his archival practice – an archaeology of knowledge. It traces the story of Dino Estevao. Separated from his family in southern Angola during a 1980 SADF attack, he was raised at the base of the very unit who committed the attack. In 1995, after learning that his parents were indeed alive, Dino returned to Angola where he “re-lived” the atrocity with his family. This led him to search for answers. As a vernacular survivor-historian, he has independently produced an extensive regional archive, framed by the presenter as offering a counter-knowledge to dominate narratives of the Border War.

Bio:
Richard Levi Raber holds a PhD in African History from Indiana University and is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter, where he leads the Southern African and Angolan case study on ‘Children of War: evolving local and global understandings of child soldiering in Africa, c 1940-2000’.