From Africa to Patagonia

Here you will find documents on the Language, Culture, and History of the Boer community in Patagonia, Argentina. Researchers can find historical letters, official documents, images, and periodicals in Spanish, English, Afrikaans, and Dutch that date from the Boers’ arrival in Argentina in 1902 to the 1980s.  
  
This digital archive was assembled by the members of the Humanities Collaboratory project From Africa to Patagonia: Voices of Displacement at the University of Michigan. This project is led by an interdisciplinary research team investigating the unique linguistic and cultural contact between spanish and Afrikaans in Patagonia, Argentina.