Archivos negros | Black Archives
Digital edition 2026
Published by L’Internationale Online
Editor
Nick Aikens
Copy Editors
Rebecca Bligh, Hannah Gregory
Spanish / English translation (introduction, episodes I–III)
Jennie Gant
English / Spanish translation (editor’s note, foreword)
Marta Malo – Zenobia Traducciones
Graphic Design
Anja Groten & Juliette Lizotte
General Coordinator
HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg University
Project Leader
L’Internationale
Contents
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1.Foreword
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2.Editor’s Note
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3.Introduction
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7.Contributor Biographies
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8.Colophon
What does it mean to build an archive from fragments? Black Archives, a three-part series published on L’Internationale Online from February 2025 to April 2026, begins from this critical question and refuses to let it go. Written by Tania Safura Adam (curator, founder-editor of Radio Africa and conceptual architect of the research platform ‘España Negra’), the series traverses battlefields, music halls and diaspora communities, while following a single line of enquiry: How has Black life in Spain been rendered invisible, and what forms of knowledge, solidarity and political consciousness have persisted despite that invisibility?
This unprecedented research by Safura Adam delves into the history and legacy of Pan-Africanism in Spain through the twentieth century, with resonances into the present. The series emerged in dialogue with the research and exhibition project ‘Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica’ (MACBA, Barcelona, 2025–26), curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, whose foreword opens this publication. In the exhibition Safura Adam developed a substantial archival display that situated the history of Pan-Africanism within the specific context of Spain and Catalonia.