Archive

The archive consists of interviews, texts, images, sound and video clips. Eventually, you will also be able to find selections from our physical collections here.

Open call

Black Archives Sweden is now accepting submissions from the public to our ongoing project on family archives.

Sarah Tawiah

Dad and I on a sailing vacation at Lake Mälaren, around 1983. We sailed every summer in Sweden between 1983-1986.…

Dad and I on a sailing vacation at…

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Mia Bonhomme

Grandbee. Photographer: family member. Mommy, Grandbee & Big Bee in the sky. Photographer: family member. Merry Chrimmuh. Photographer: family member.…

Grandbee. Photographer: family member. Mommy, Grandbee & Big…

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Melat Zeine

Title: Adey Selas. This is a picture of my grandmother's mother, my great-grandmother. Her name was Selas, but everyone in…

Title: Adey Selas. This is a picture of…

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Safiya Ahmed

Me (Safiya Ahmed), my brother (Shamdusiin Ahmed), my mother (Fawsiya Omar), my father (Ahmed Shil Mohamed) are in the local newspaper…

Me (Safiya Ahmed), my brother (Shamdusiin Ahmed), my mother…

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Madubuko Diakité

Contribution to The Interview Series in the form of a life story. Family photo, Enugu. Photographer: unknown. Historical Background I…

Contribution to The Interview Series in the form…

Interview

Herbert “Wash” Washington

Circa 1964. A family photo without me, which includes Donald’s (my brother's) wife, Marybelle, sitting to the right and in…

Circa 1964. A family photo without me, which…

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Marieme Niang Ndiaye

Cake break Östersund 1986, Tore (grandfather), Mame Abdoulaye Niang (father). Photographer: unknown Ataya ceremony (Tea time) Dakar 1988, Mame Abdoulaye…

Cake break Östersund 1986, Tore (grandfather), Mame Abdoulaye…

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Jeffrey Casely-Hayford

Min bror och syster ca 1995. Fotograf: Min pappa Adormey. My parents arrived in Sweden in June 1986. One of…

Min bror och syster ca 1995. Fotograf: Min…

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Mam-Yandeh Gaye

The people in the photo are Mam-Yandeh Gaye and Tamesha Utbult Norville. The photo was taken in Ödsmål outside of…

The people in the photo are Mam-Yandeh Gaye…

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Ismaila Jallow

The mosque in Banjul. From the left in blue; Abdoulie, Alpha Jallow, Ismaila Jallow, Saine Jallow. Photographer: unknown. From the…

The mosque in Banjul. From the left in…

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Rotimi Odetunde

Me and my daughters Temitayo and Tittilayo. Gothenburg, Sweden 1995. Photographer: Apiradee Odetunde (Mother) Me and my daughter Tittilayo at…

Me and my daughters Temitayo and Tittilayo. Gothenburg,…

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Sofia Efia Abu

James Abu with family, wife Helina, daughter Vanessa, son Edward and grandchild Naima, at home in Malmö 2023–04. Photographer: unknown.…

James Abu with family, wife Helina, daughter Vanessa,…

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Anders Neergaard

Posing at my aunt's place in cool clothes (in my opinion). Photographer: unknown. Posing at my aunt's place in my…

Posing at my aunt's place in cool clothes…

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Joanna Johnson

The year is 1981. I'm 1 years old sitting in my mother Karin’s lap. Next to us is my sister…

The year is 1981. I'm 1 years old…

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James Abu

James Abu & Helina Antwi with children Maxwell, Edward, Vanessa 2018, Malmö. Photographer: unknown. James Abu 1986, newly arrived in…

James Abu & Helina Antwi with children Maxwell,…

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Gabriel Francois

Gabriel, Öland 1984. Photographer: Agneta Karlsson. Gabriel, Öland 1984. Photographer: Agneta Karlsson. Gabriel, Öland, 1981. Photographer: Agneta Karlsson. Gabriel, graduation,…

Gabriel, Öland 1984. Photographer: Agneta Karlsson. Gabriel, Öland…

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Sarah Nakiito

Circa 1996. We had been in Sweden for 2-3 years when this photo was taken. This was at my foster…

Circa 1996. We had been in Sweden for…

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Marcus McKinley

The McKinleys, Smygehamn 1981. My parents Barbro and Shirley McKinley decided to settle in the small Scanian fishing village to…

The McKinleys, Smygehamn 1981. My parents Barbro and…

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Alicia Samson

What is your relationship to your family archive: photographs, films, sound collections, memories, oral histories? CLAY HOLDS MEMORY Photographer: Alicia…

What is your relationship to your family archive:…

Interview

Silke Henriksson

With mommy and daddy in Gambia. Around 1996. Photographer: Unknown/family. With grandma in Bakau - 96.Photographer: Unknown/family. On Brännö with…

With mommy and daddy in Gambia. Around 1996.…

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Aron Zahran

Wedding picture of Salim and Samia Zahran. Husby, 24/5- 97. Photographer: Anna Svensson. Derek [with] Mohammed and son Aron. 1995.…

Wedding picture of Salim and Samia Zahran. Husby,…

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A picture of Black couple posing for a portrait. The woman holds a baby on her lap

Marcia Harvey Isaksson

What is your relationship to your family archive: photographs, films, sound collections, memories, oral histories? Due to my role as…

What is your relationship to your family archive:…

Interview

A grey poster with the text archival frequencies and decolonising the archive on. The text is written in black

Archival Frequencies: Decolonising the Archive

What does it mean to decolonise the archive and is it possible? What do we do with our past and…

What does it mean to decolonise the archive…

Interview

An image of a black dad and his newborn baby

Agnese Noah

Dad and I resting by the water after the long journey here. Taken in the summer of 1991. Photographer: Mum…

Dad and I resting by the water after…

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Bild på 3 mixade barn- 2 flickor och en pojke.

Lovisa Fahlgren

In this picture I am on the right and my brother, on the left. We are sitting in our maternal…

In this picture I am on the right…

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A grey poster with the text Archival Frequency Episode 2 Lynnée Denise on. There is also the logos of the funders of the episode and Black Archives Sweden.

Archival Frequencies: DJ Lynnée Denise

Do we ever think of sampling as an act of archiving? What is Black music? What happens when we migrate…

Do we ever think of sampling as an…

Sound

Jasmine Sjöberg Sidibe

On the first photo you see me and my mum. Date: 1995-07-19. Photographer: Grandmother. On the second photo you see…

On the first photo you see me and…

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Archival Frequencies: Arkivet för Rosa Brus

Is there space for noise in our archives? Are there queer wavelengths? What acoustic feedback do we hear in our…

Is there space for noise in our archives?…

Sound

Nemma Sayed Abdu

Photo taken by Mum Rahma. Year 1998. A photo of my little brother who had recently been born. Which was…

Photo taken by Mum Rahma. Year 1998. A…

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Ellen Aduofua Bernadsson

Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson on her first bike. 3-4 years old. In front of family friends Anita and Olle's house. Location:…

Ellen Aduofua Bernardsson on her first bike. 3-4…

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Mariama Jobe

1996. Mariama Jobe and her mother. Fatou Ann appears to be at a baptism. It is probably Mariama's own baptism…

1996. Mariama Jobe and her mother. Fatou Ann…

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A picture of three black people sitting together with microphones in their hands in front of a small crowd

Spatial considerations: Archiving Black queer life

Talk

Hawa Sanneh

My little brother, my mother’s friend and I in our old living room. Date: 1997-08-13. Photographer: Unknown My mother gets…

My little brother, my mother’s friend and I…

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Kayo Mpoyi

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive: photographs, films, audio collections, memories, oral histories? For me it is a…

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive:…

Interview

Stevie Nii-Adu Mensah

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive: photographs, films, audio collections, memories, oral histories? I see the archives as…

How do you relate to your family/kinship archive:…

Interview

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole about her work and relation to family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole...

Interview

Meditations of the Black Archive: Methods and Praxis

Talk

Online release: Black Space

Talk

Michael McEachrane

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to Michael McEachrane about his family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to Michael McEachrane about his...

Interview

Public Archives and Colonial Traces

Talk

Bild från utställningen The Weight of Silence.

Artist talk with Ina Nian and Samuel Girma

Talk

The Possibilities of the Black Archive

Talk

Francine Agbodjalou

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Francine Agbodjalou about her work and relation to family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the artist Francine Agbodjalou...

Interview

Michael Barrett

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the curator Michael Barrett about his work and relation to family archives.

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the curator Michael Barrett...

Interview

Theresa Traore Dahlberg

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the visual artist and filmmaker, Theresa Traore Dahlberg about her work and relation to...

Black Archives Sweden has spoken to the visual artist and...

Interview