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@article{Byala2010TheMB,
  title={The museum becomes archive: reassessing Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica},
  author={Sara G. Byala},
  journal={Social Dynamics},
  year={2010},
  volume={36},
  pages={11 - 23},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145123795}
}

This article charts the history of MuseumAfrica (formerly the Africana Museum) from its founding vision to the present. Taking the museum’s current abysmal reputation as its starting point, it seeks to fill the void in academic and popular thought that encompasses the institution. Sketching the original mandate under which it was created before focusing on the museum’s work from 1935 to the near present, it explores the ways in which the museum interacted with and impacted the world outside its…