My project examines the emergence of grassroots archival initiatives on Instagram and explores the manifold ways diasporic identities are being mediated and negotiated through cyberspatial publics. I track how users activate independent archives on social media networks such as Instagram to forge an Eritrean national imagination. Eritreans in the diaspora are using the photo-sharing platform to their advantage, transforming themselves from passive consumers of archival activity into active agents behind public history-making through participatory archives. Grounded in an emic approach, I use @Eri.treanArchives an Eritrean-based independent archive as a field site in which I conduct virtual ethnographic work. I analyze posts and responses to them, explore concepts of extraterritorialism, and identify collaborative approaches and effective uses of submissions. In so doing, I examine how collective memory is built and the nostalgia for an imagined past, that both constitute or produce an Eritrean diasporic identity, but also reveal political tensions. In addition, I observe how Eritrean national identity is articulated through various postings that highlight anti-colonial confrontation, the steadfastness of the Eritrean people, and a multicultural heritage. Eritrean national identity, as formulated by the E.P.L.F. is a multiethnic, multifaith African political community founded upon globalist humanist understanding and shared opposition to imperialism (Serequeberhan 1989). Through investigation of archival spaces such as @Eri.treanArchives, I identify how values and ideals within the independence struggle are reproduced through the content of the account, and how @Eri.treanArchives attempts to make unity in political and ethnic diversity.