Jenni Skinner Research resources available to all online Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, many publishers and content aggregators have made extra content free online. SCOLMA has put together the collection of resources below to help researchers, academics, students and librarians navigate what’s out there. As far as we are aware, the resources below are available internationally and therefore … Read more
AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION No. 135 2019 CONTENTS Special Issue: Archives and Collections for/in Ethiopian Studies Guest Editors: Sophia Thubauville and Sayuri Yoshida Articles Sophia Thubauville and Sayuri Yoshida Introduction………………………………………… Alexandra Jones Ethiopian Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum…………………….. Sayuri Yoshida The Collections of F.J.Bieber and the Kafa Culture: Connecting Anthropological and Archival Research ……………………………………………………………………… Aneta … Read more
AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION 134 CONTENTS Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2018: Things come together? Literary archives from, in and for Africa, University of Birmingham, 10 September, 2018 Articles Kadija George The Visibility and Accessibility of Literary Archives of Writers and Publishers of African Descent in Britain………………………………………………… Kalle Laajala, Mattias Åkesson and Nicklas Hållén African Street Literature … Read more
SCOLMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2020 POSTPONEMENT Oun a ní la ? gbé l’árug? (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate): Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Postponed from: 8 June 2020 It is with great regret that SCOLMA has decided to postpone its annual conference, which was due to be held on 8 June … Read more
Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2018: Things come together? Literary archives from, in and for Africa, University of Birmingham, 10 September, 2018 Articles David C. Sutton Literary Archives in Africa: an Overview with Examples of Recent initiatives …………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Bernth Lindfors African Holdings of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin …………………………………………………………………….. … Read more
SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Minutes of the 57th Annual General Meeting held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, on Monday 10th June 2019 during the annual conference, ‘Decolonising African Studies: questions and dilemmas for libraries archives and collections. Present: Patricia Hewitt, Alison Metcalfe, Sarah Rhodes, Marion Wallace, Dawn Wright, Charles … Read more
SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2019 The 2019 AGM will be held at the University of Edinburgh at 1.00p.m. on Monday 10th June 2019 during the annual conference,’Decolonising African Studies: questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections’. AGENDA 1. Approval of the Minutes of the 56th AGM (posted … Read more
The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York holds a wide variety of archives relating to southern Africa, and relate mostly to the period following the Second World War. Zimbabwe and Zambia and certain aspects of South Africa are particularly well represented in the archives, although Botswana, Angola, Mozambique and Namibia are also … Read more
Article Hans M. Zell Publishing in African Languages: a review of the literature Obituary Alan Bell. Terry Barringer Book Review African, American: From Tarzan to Dreams From My Father – Africa in the US Imagination, by David Peterson del Mar. Terry Barringer
Articles Jody Butterworth Saving Archives Through Digitisation: Reflections on Endangered Archives Programme Projects in Africa Hanna Grayson and Paul Rukesha Digital Archives in a Changing Rwanda Tom Cunningham The Colonial Archive as Material Remains: Reflections on an “Endangered Archives Project” Samantha L. Scott, Rick Rohde and Timm Hoffman Repeat Landscape Photography, Historical Ecology and the … Read more