Another Hero: The Archive in Subversion is a participatory digital archiving project that investigates the forms of care, friction, and futurity that emerge in the gaps, silences, and transitional zones of the postcolonial archive and library. Drawing on decolonial archival theory (Muchefa, 2020; Dike, 1962) and African diaspora historiography (Konadu, 2010), the project reimagines the archive as a living, contested space in which user-contributed narratives—oral histories, visual artifacts, audio recordings, and textual testimonies—can both unsettle and extend official records. Organized through an open tagging and color-coding system, Another Hero connects disparate cultural materials from exhibitions, festivals, and public programs across Africa and its diaspora, creating networks of meaning that thrive in spaces where institutional documentation is absent or incomplete. These interconnections foreground practices of care through community-led preservation, reveal productive frictions between institutional and personal memory, and imagine futures shaped by polyvocal, transnational storytelling (June Givanni Pan-AfricanCinema Archive, 2020; Diasporic Literary Archives Network, 2015).

The conceptualization phase of the Archive is kindly funded by Cultuurloket DigitALL

ANOTHER HERO is an institution in becoming.