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A library of Eritrean records and voices

Read historical accounts, reports and records in English and Tigrinya. Explore a subject, follow a short reading collection, or find a document.

2,090 documents 6 subjects Original sources retained

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640 documents
Prison, detention and disappearance
Prison accounts, arrests, torture, disappearances and records of people held or killed in custody.
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339 documents
Refuge, migration and trafficking
Accounts and reporting on flight, asylum, refugee life, migration routes, trafficking and deportation.
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566 documents
History, conflict and political movements
Historical studies, liberation-era records, political movements, leadership disputes and accounts of conflict and violence.
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396 documents
Education, youth and national service
Education and university life, students and young people, conscription, military training and national service.
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827 documents
Rights, freedoms and civic action
Human rights reporting and advocacy, journalism and expression, religious freedom, justice and public campaigns.
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125 documents
Lives, memory and culture
Biographies, personal recollections, memorials, cultural writing and accounts of community life.
Explore subject: Lives, memory and culture

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Editorial reading collection · 5 sources
Reading prison accounts and records
How do personal accounts, reporting and compiled references document detention differently?
Open reading collection: Reading prison accounts and records
Editorial reading collection · 5 sources
Education: institutions and experience
What changes when an institution describes its work, a journalist reports a dispute, or a compiler looks back?
Open reading collection: Education: institutions and experience
Editorial reading collection · 5 sources
Lives remembered in different forms
How do personal connection and literary form shape a remembered life?
Open reading collection: Lives remembered in different forms