In Africa, digitisation should be seen within a postcolonial context where the geographical overlap between ‘nation’ and ‘state’ that many assume in Europe, is absent. In this respect, Kahn and Tanner have pointed to the complex interplay between digitisation and (post-colonial) nation-building and national identity in postcolonial (South)Africa and plead for “build[ing] digital collections that reflect an indigenous African identity, not an imagined Westernised one” (Tanner and Kahn 2014: 125). They follow Premesh Lalu, who earlier argued forecefully for a “politics of digitisation that will expand what can be said about the history of liberation struggles in Southern Africa” (Lalu 2007: 42). The latter points to the much broader context in which digitisation in and within Africa should be situated: North/South relations, the involvement of public and private parties, questions of access, privilege, ownership mix in complex ways which have created distinct concerns that have variously been described as ‘digital imperialism’ (2000s), the ‘complex of the digital savior’ (2010s) and appropriation of the discourse on ‘endangered archives’ (Chamelot, Hiribarren and Rodet 2020).