South Sudan Archivists Battle Rats, Termites, Time In a steaming hot tent in South Sudan’s capital, papers that have
survived rats, termites and almost five decades of civil war burst out
of overstuffed sacks and litter the floor between mountains of files
that contain a new nation’s entire history.
Archivist Yusef Fulgensio Onyalla heads a team tasked with turning these
documents and shards of paper into archives. They cover everything
from maps and constitutions to cases of suspected witchcraft and the
magazine subscriptions of former British rulers.