This paper explores the challenges of archiving in Africa, drawing on a case study of Liberia, a country that has just emerged from a decade-long civil war. It examines the challenges of archiving/documenting of human rights abuses during the Liberian civil war by the recently established Liberian TRC, but will also draw on experiences from the Sierra Leonean TRC. Archiving in Africa is beset by numerous problems and they include the lack of functioning national archives, competent personnel, financial resources, Internet diffusion, illiteracy, financial and human resources and the political will to make information available to the electorate. Yet archiving is key to the promotion of transparency, accountability and democratic development and therefore of importance in societies where people have been repressed and where endemic corruption and resource distribution have led to civil wars. The Liberian TRC is likely to generate compound documents, which will include audio files. For reconciliation and democratisation to take place, the records that are being generated by the TRC will need a proper strategy for preservation and dissemination, in order to effectively be used to educate the masses about the causes of conflict to avoid a recurrence. While the developed world is grappling the electronic preservation of information the developing countries in Africa and elsewhere need help in the management and establishment of information systems that will promote the freedom of information. The paper intends to come with recommendations that will be useful for the planning of proper information systems for future TRC missions.