Libraries Speaker Series: Bekezela Mguni
Channel: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Date: 04/03/2021

Reclaiming Cultural Stewardship and Decolonizing the Archives.

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Speaker Series was honored to welcome Bekezela Mguni of The Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. 

What does it mean to approach the practice of archiving through a justice-centered lens? Archivists play a critical role in the preservation of our history, how we interpret the current moment, and what evidence is left behind in order to help us understand and shape our future.  Whose story is deemed valuable? Whose life is seen as important enough to be remembered?  What cultural lenses will we use to look at our experiences? In this talk, Bekezela Mguni examines how archives can be both sites of powerful memory keeping as well as oppression and violence.

This event took place on February 25, 2021, 7:00 p.m.