Archive Liberia is a memory project that examines Liberia’s histories on the African continent and across the diaspora. Publicly launched in 2020, it is an ongoing effort to reconstruct personal and collective Liberian memory: an iterative practice of returning, questioning, and reordering.

Rooted in the belief that memory and lived experience alone cannot offer a complete account of our history, Archive Liberia positions study as central to how we come to know, name, and preserve our past. The project invites Liberians to not only remember, but to interrogate how empire distorts and manufactures memory in service of its own expansion.

Expanding beyond public programs, Archive Liberia is developing a digital collection—a growing repository of photographs and personal media shared by Liberians. This collection serves as a living site of ephemera, created in response to what was lost during the war, and offers a public record of Liberian life beyond institutional structures.