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In Conversation With Razia Saleh – Head of Archives & Research

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All of these conversations — the praise, the criticism, the questions — they all come back to one thing: how we remember.
Because history is not just about what happened — it’s about what we choose to preserve, what we highlight, and sometimes… what we leave out.
At the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, that responsibility sits at the heart of their work — making sure that the full story, in all its complexity, is accessible to the public.
We’re now joined by Razia Saleh to talk about archives, memory, and who really controls the narrative.
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