Afrosoul:Catalysts Of Knowledge Creation For Transformation
Welcome to Afroprojects, incorporating our non-profit work and our documentary company. Afroprojects comprises two connected entities:
Afrosoul Productions – a documentary studio creating films and other story-based media.
Afrosoul Centre for Memory and Transformation – a public scholarship initiative that works through archives, oral history, exhibitions, dialogue, research and community collaboration.
Our Mission
Afrosoul Centre for Memory and Transformation (ACMT) and Afrosoul Productions, facilitate collective reflection, steward historical memory and activate public dialogue and learning through research, creative practice and public scholarship.
We utilise memory as a medium to better understand the past, navigate the present and to shed light as we imagine more just futures. Our methodology is based on these 3 principles:
Intellectual Depth
Our work is rigorously grounded in research, ensuring that the stories we tell are informed, meaningful, and resonate with authenticity and respect.
Collaborative Spirit
We believe in the power of collaboration, working alongside communities or individuals to capture and share their narratives in a way that honors their experiences and histories.
Ethical Engagement
We operate with a commitment to ethical practices, ensuring that our engagement with partners is respectful, transparent, and beneficial.
Selected Afroprojects
Coming Soon: The Benny Gool Archive
As part of our commitment to memory as a catalyst for transformation, ACMT is embarking on a journey to explore the archive of acclaimed South African photojournalist Benny Gool. We see archives as living resources that invite new questions, perspectives and conversations. Through this project, we hope to activate Gool's extraordinary body of work in ways that enrich public memory and inspire fresh ways of seeing our shared history.
Defying Gravity
In Postproduction: Icons of Khoe History
As part of our commitment to memory as a catalyst for transformation, ACMT is embarking on a journey to explore the archive of acclaimed South African photojournalist Benny Gool. We see archives as living resources that invite new questions, perspectives and conversations. Through this project, we hope to activate Gool's extraordinary body of work in ways that enrich public memory and inspire fresh ways of seeing our shared history.
About Us
Our approach is grounded in the principles of dignity, agency and respectful listening. We are a small like-minded collective offering a safe, intimate space for storytellers to narrate.
We believe that knowledge is not simply discovered in archives or produced in universities. It also emerges through dialogue, lived experience, creative practice and collective reflection.
Our role is to design the conditions in which that knowledge can be recognised, stewarded and shared for the public good.
Foundational principles:
- We begin with people, not collections.
- We treat process as intellectually significant, not merely administrative.
- We see meaning-making as a collective endeavour.
- We insist that memory should serve the present and the future, not only preserve the past.
Some of society’s most valuable insights are not in formal archives but can be found within lived experience, cultural traditions, community practice and insittutional memory.
Our Practice
Our practice brings together documentary filmmaking, research, facilitation, oral history and archival work to create thoughtful, collaborative forms of public engagement. It helps create the conditions in which new understanding emerges.
ACMT and Afrosoul Productions explore history as a resource for reparative justice, civic participation, and social transformation.
We believe that memory is one of society's most underutilised public resources. When thoughtfully engaged, it enables people to understand how history has shaped the present, recognise the knowledge embedded within lived experience, strengthen intergenerational dialogue and imagine more just and inclusive futures.
Our Afroprojects help to unlock this public value.
