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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.
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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.

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Oshewa Kudze: SF Medical Center Oshewa Kudze: SF Medical Center
Date: 5/18/1978Call Number: PM 263AFormat: Cass ACollection: African liberation movements
The commander of medical care in Mozambique's refugee camps explains the problems of displaced refugees. Because of the heightened political turmoil, refugee camps in surrounding areas such as Rhodesia, Zimbabwe are being overpopulated. The commander explains that Mozambique's numbers in camps are rapidly increasing due to displaced people joining their camps. Population is passing 150,000 and people in crowded camps make medical care difficult. Threats of an epidemic such as typhoid can create a massive danger and vaccines are not being provided efficiently. Along with this current struggle, the commander explains the past injustices the Rhodesian army was doing to innocent refugees. Injustices like US supplied napalm, infecting drinking water and just providing the vaccination to white Africans, killing 700 in one camp, and poisoning crops.
Our Women are Women of Action Our Women are Women of Action
Author: ZIMBABWE NEWSPublisher: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee / John Brown Book ClubYear: 1978Format: PamphletCollection: Zimbabwe
Four Articles from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) on the role of women in the national liberation struggle. Cover includes photo fo an armed woman soldier. Back cover includes a plea to support the ZANU mobile clinic project.
Our Women are Women of Action Our Women are Women of Action
Author: ZIMBABWE NEWSPublisher: Zimbabwe newsYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-1 and 10-2Format: PamphletCollection: Zimbabwe
Four Articles from the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) on the role of women in the national liberation struggle.
Zimbabwe: The Final Advance Zimbabwe: The Final Advance
Authors: Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Eddison ZvobgoPublisher: Liberation Support Movement (LSM) Information CenterYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Zimbabwe
Documents On The Zimbabwe Liberation Movement
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-1 January-FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"1978: The Year of the People"
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-2 March-AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"Chimurenga Day: The Sinoia Tradition 1978"
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-2 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
ZANU and History: Armed Struggle Until Victory
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-4 July-AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
Chimurenga is now liberating our country
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-6 November-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"1978- Milestone on the way to victory"
"American Foreign Policy: We See Africa As An Open Field For Maneuver!" "American Foreign Policy: We See Africa As An Open Field For Maneuver!"
Author: T. LockwoodPublisher: Zimbabwe NewsDate: 6/1978Volume Number: JuneFormat: ArticleCollection: Zimbabwe
Reproduction. In "National Enemies" edition