The chapter considers anti-colonial liberation to be a generative archive for African literary imaginaries, by zoning in on literary engagements with anti-colonial liberation struggles across Africa. The chapter suggests that literary texts and liberation struggles co-constitute each other in an ongoing dialogue on the meanings of freedom for post/colonial African societies. Using examples from different genres and regions, this chapter tracks the ebb and flow of key perspectives in this dialogue; and the role this archive has played in African literary thought, as a dynamic imaginative frame that poses important questions. The chapter suggests that literary engagements with anti-colonial liberation movements allow us to track shifting conceptualizations of freedom, from the optimistic cultural nationalism of the anti-colonial struggles, to the brief euphoria of flag independence, to the disillusionment that follows the betrayal of liberation struggle ideals. Secondly, the chapter reveals how these literary reflections on liberation struggles wrestle with the tensions between freedom as the pursuit of full humanity and philosophical questions posed by violence as a tool for liberation. Lastly, the chapter examines questions of memory, representation, contradictions, and the silences that haunt anti-colonial liberation movements.