A Message From The Archive's Storage Room
Coming Soon...First Edition of Eritrean Archives' Zine Series
As July concludes and August begins, we’d like to announce the upcoming First Edition of Eritrean Archives’ Zine Series (Releasing September 2025).
Honoring the radical tradition of Zines, we examine the grammar of the Archives and embrace institutional unorthodoxies while interrogating the ideologies that shape our contemporary world. Deploying critical analysis and decolonial methodology, our first Zine invites us to reshape how we contemplate and understand our ownership of fractured histories, unknown narratives, and frail memories. From sharing personal journeys of tracing and identifying Eritrean lineages whose stories were initially lost to the ruptures of displacement and colonial violence, we aim to illuminate the distinct and interpersonal ways in which memory, knowledge, identity, and history are embroidered.
Rather than accepting our stories as permanently fractured or lost, we challenge ourselves to critique through whose lens do we interpret loss and recovery. Likewise, we actively urge ourselves to trace the cursors of historical gaps and intergenerational silences. What practices will reposition the unknown and faceless from cultural fringes into our collective foreground?
Share Your Story: Join Our Living Archives
A people’s archive cannot exist without the people. With every Zine publication, we honor the community with a dedicated spotlight of personal submissions, deepening our understanding of Eritrean identities. Your submissions can be about anything that helps capture the richness of Eritrean culture, memories, oral traditions, and community. We welcome all forms of self and cultural expression. From family photos and personal memorabilia to storytelling, experimental pieces, and visual works, every form of expression has a place in our cultural archives!
Submissions can be made using this form.
Note: Submissions to our Zines are exclusively open to our paid members. If you’d like to be part of this issue, consider becoming a paid member to support our work.
General submissions for all will open at a later date.
A Special Thank You
Eritrean Archives exists because of the generosity, trust, and love of our community. To every contributor, supporter, and friend, thank you for your warm encouragement and for helping us preserve Eritrean cultural memories.
An extreme heartfelt thank you to our paying and founding members, whose commitment makes this work possible. Your support preserves our heritage, fuels our growth, and inspires us tremendously. We are endlessly grateful for your patience and belief in this vision.
Thank you for being a part of this living archive.
Awet N’Hafash
Victory To The Masses