Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

This is the Time: Interview with Two Namibian Women This is the Time: Interview with Two Namibian Women
Publisher: Chicago Committee for African LiberationDate: 8/26/1977Volume Number: 26-AugFormat: MonographCollection: SWAPO- Namibia
Monograph containing two interviews with Namibian women.
National Democratic Programme of the Eritean People\'s Liberation Front National Democratic Programme of the Eritean People\'s Liberation Front
Publisher: Eritrean People\'s Liberation FrontDate: 1/31/1977Volume Number: 31-JanFormat: MonographCollection: Eritrea
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1977Volume Number: No. 6 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
In this Issue: Soweto: Era of Mass Struggles Begin; Soweto and the South African Economy; Southern African Liberation Movements Must Take a Stand Against Soviet Social Imperialism; The National Question in Azania: The Native Versus the National Question; The Falsified History of African Dispossession of Their Land and Country in Azania; Why the Soviet Union is an Imperialist Country; Aspects of Social Imperialism in Africa; Who are the Katangese Gendarmes; Labour Laws in Angola; more
IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis IKWEZI: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis
Year: 1977Volume Number: No. 7 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: IKWEZI
This issue dedicated to Steve Biko, symbol of the Militant Resistance of Azanian Youth and masses led by BPC. In this Issue: Steve Biko Speaks; PAC Argues Colonial Nature of South Africa at UN; Settler Colonialism in South Africa and Israel; Letter of Comintern to SACP; Bias of Anti-Apartheid Movement; Trotskyite Distortions of the National Question in Azania; Social Imperialism Interference in Namibia; The National Question and Political Development of African States; Culture and Colonialism in Black Africa; Education in South Africa; more