Presentation of the interviewers

Bertil Högberg is an activist for the liberation and development of Southern Africa since the early 1970s. Chairperson and board member of the Africa Groups of Sweden, the Bread and Fishes and The Isolate South Africa committee, ISAK in several periods in the 1970s and 1980s. He worked as a co-ordinator for the Africa Groups of Sweden in Namibia 1990-1992 and in South Africa 2001. He is working freelance with various projects relating to southern Africa College teacher by profession with focus on leadership training, international relations, particularly southern Africa and Fair Trade.
Read Madi Gray's interview with Bertil Högberg.

Madi Gray was born in Cape Town. A critic of apartheid since her student days, she left South Africa and moved to Sweden where she joined the ANC of South Africa and the solidarity movement, the Africa Groups of Sweden, in the same year. Madi worked as a freelance journalist and editor and contributed to the anti-apartheid struggle in various ways, particularly through writing articles and appearing on public platforms, speaking to a variety of audiences including preschool children, trade unionists and peace activists. Currently she works as a tourist guide and enjoys showing her guests how the problems in South Africa are being resolved.
Read Bertil Högberg's interview with Madi Gray.

Tor Sellström based at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden between 1994 and 2001, co-ordinated the project 'National Liberation in Southern Africa: The Role of the Nordic Countries'.
He is a political scientist with a first degree from the University of Stockholm and post-graduate studies at the Institute for Political Studies, University of Paris. He has been employed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Angola and by the Swedish International Development Authority, SIDA, holding various positions in Southern Africa and Sweden. Before joining the Nordic Africa Institute he served as Deputy Director of the Namibian Economic Polity Research Unit. Currently he holds a position as Senior Advisor at ACCORD, South Africa.

Lennart Wohlgemuth has been guest professor at the Centre for African Studies at Gothenburg University since 2006. Before that he was the Director of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala 1993-2005. Prior to this he worked for many years for the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sida), most recently as Assistant Director General and Head of the Sectoral Department. He has done research on higher education in Africa, on the Great Lakes region of Africa and on issues regarding international development cooperation and has published extensively.

Proscovia Svärd was the Project Co-ordinator for the Nordic Documentation Project on the Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa from February, 2008 to December 2009. She carried out the interviews on Iceland in order to capture the Icelandic people's memory on their involvement in the Southern African liberation struggles. There are no assembled archives on Iceland, like the case is in the rest Nordic countries. She has a BA and MA in Archives and Information Science and a B Sc in Media and Information Science. Her research interests are; Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and their documentation processes, the role of archives in enhancing accountability and transparency, information access and the link to democracy and development, long-term preservation of electronic information and its management. She has left the institute to pursue her  Ph D studies, at the Institute for Information Techonology and Media, Mid-Sweden University, Härnösand, Sweden.