This project focuses on the digitisation and dissemination of Bouba Touré’s archive, spanning over five decades of photographic, filmic, and written material. Comprising around 80,000 negatives, manuscripts, and videotapes, the archive documents migrant worker movements and the Sans-Papiers struggle, as well as the West African – particularly Malian – diaspora in France. It also traces rural life along the Senegal River and the history of the Somankidi Coura cooperative, which was co-founded by Touré in 1977 and offers a long-term perspective on self-organised agricultural and political practices.
The Bouba Touré Archive is a collaborative network working on the preservation and circulation of Bouba Touré’s photographic and textual archive.
