Welcome to Eritrean Archives!
A community-rooted archive reclaiming the cultural memory and historical legacies of Eritrea and its global diaspora. Eritrean Archives is a collective reckoning with our pasts, an advocate for historical continuity, experimentation, and reimaginings. As a people’s archive, we invite community members, storytellers, dreamers, and knowledge-seekers to help collect our heritage, decentralize memory, and liberate our histories.
Our oral traditions and historical lineages are continuously at risk of erasure, fragmentation, and distortion by colonial systems. As members of a Black African diasporic community, Eritrean Archives intends to disassemble these exclusionary frameworks by championing communal collaboration.
Our history and our memories serve as the pulse to our collective identity, a guide toward our future. When our memories are lost, our narratives become fractured and skewed. We must honor our historical imprint and cultural legacies by nurturing our own ideas for cultural preservation and archival-hood.
Through Substack, we publish essays, meditations, and memory callings, we interrogate how Eritrean histories live across generations, reexamining what and how we choose to remember. Here, every musing is a reverberating conversation between ancestral wisdom and contemporary pulse.
Why Subscribe?
Eritrean Archives is a living chorus of memory, held together by those invested in liberating Eritrean history from silence and fragmentation. Each subscription helps sustain this evolving movement committed to community-rooted preservation, decolonial reflection, and collective storytelling.
Free subscribers receive select access to archival mediations and occasional essays analyzing the dynamics of culture, memory, absence, and knowledge production.
Paid Subscribers ensure the longevity and visibility of our work. Your support directly funds:
The growth and future of community-driven projects to restore the presence and access of Eritrean history
In-depth essays interrogating colonial paradigms, archival silences, and cultural recovery systems
Founding members gain full access to the Quarterly Eritrean Archive Zine series with toolkits and special features.
By subscribing, you join a collective refusal of historical silence.
By supporting, you help ensure this archive remains intact, safeguarding a future where Eritrean stories are preserved, studied, and celebrated on our terms.
Join us as we restore our role as ancestral keepers, revitalizing our pledge towards a mosaic future of memory, justice, and cultural honoring.
Eritrean Archives is a self-funded project, incubated at The Diaspora Academy.
