Ecuador - Fondo Documental Afro-andino de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Afro-andean Documentary Fund of the Simón Bolívar Andean University)

This collection is the largest repository in the country and the region of oral, visual and written materials regarding the afro Andean peoples. It was established in 2002 through an agreement between the Simón Bolívar Andean University (Ecuador) and the Process of Black Communities of Ecuador, which preserves an extensive oral and visual archive in afro Ecuadorian communities of more than forty years. It also has documents and other materials of historic and up dated value regarding the peoples of the Black Diaspora. .

The materials of the Fondo are grouped in four collections:  

The sound collection, with more than 3.000 hours of recordings and 1.333 archives, divided into two categories: 
Oral tradition, including interviews, testimonials, life stories, knowledge, stories, and chants, among others, of the communities of Esmeraldas, Imbabura and Carchi.  
Processes, including the minutes of assemblies, workshops, and meetings of communities and grass-roots organizations.

The photography collection, with approx. 10.000 photographs, divided into two categories:   
From 1970 to 2002. 
From 2002 up to the present. 

The audio-visual collection, divided into two categories:  
Audio-visual materials produced in afro Ecuadorian communities. 
Audio-visual productions from and about the African imprint in Andean and Latin America.

The written collection, digital and printed, divided into three categories: 
Historical documents. 
Contemporary documents, including a specific collection of the works of Juan Garcia Salazar, including publications about his works.   
Texts published in Ecuador, Andean and the rest of the Americas about the African imprint.