This drawing traces the thousands of documents that we consulted across various Imperial repositories that have attempted to lay claim over the Basin, extract its solid and liquid fluidities, and arrest its multiplicty of life-worlds over centuries.
Archives Consulted
RTP Aquivos, L'INA éclaire l'actu, Arquivo Lúcio Lara, New York Times: Times Machine, African Activist Archive, the British Library, Fundação Mário Soares e Maria Barroso (Casa Comum), Africa Today (Indiana University Press), Library of Congress, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Linnaean Society of London, Black Cultural Archives, Merseyside Maritime Museum (Museum of Slavery), British Geological Survey Archives, Royal Society, British Geological Survey Archives, Natural History Museum (UK), CIA Reading room, United Nations PeaceKeeper Website, Kew Gardens Archive, Geocatalogue of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, An online Repository of Petroleum & Mining Contracts, Royal Geographical Society Archives, RGS Stanley Collection, Science Museum London, The Geological Society, British Film Institute Reuben Archive, British Pathé, Institut Francais de Lubumbashi, Wageningen University Archives, Bibliothèque du Département de Géologie, Cellule Technique de Coordination et de Planification Minière Archives, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Instituto Superior de Agronomia arquivos, Section de Géologie Générale, Bibliotheque de Lecture (Université de Lumumbashi), The David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University Library, Natural History Museum Archives (UK), Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences Digital Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK National Archives, Florida State University Law Libray Digital Collections, Florida State University Law Libray Digital Collections.