This panel discussion was hosted with the Global Cultures Institute and the Department of English at King’s. Featuring Professor Kate Skinner (Professor of African History, University of Bristol), Professor Erica Carter (Professor of German and Film, KCL) and Mrs Judith Opoku-Boateng (Senior Archivist, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives, Univ. of Ghana), it reflected on the richness, complexities and challenges of archival research in West Africa, and on the institutional and disciplinary differences in perspective and approach to archival research.