Meg23 The ELIAS network is an informal network for librarians, archivists, documentalists and other information workers working with materials from and about Africa in institutions (libraries, archives, organisations, NGOs etc.) within Europe. This year’s ELIAS meeting will be held at the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren, Belgium on Friday 17th June 2016, with … Read more
Africa Research Institute invites you to Beyond Ebola: Economic Development in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Thursday 25th June 2015 from 6pm to 8pm Africa Research Institute, 55 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL Speakers: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey – Liberian academic, activist and author based at SOAS, University of London Biro Diallo – General Manager Operations, Rio Tinto Simandou Ade Daramy – Chair & Spokesperson for … Read more
African Studies Abstracts Online 50 (2015) has been published and is now available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32658 In 2013 Marlene van Doorn wrote about “A half century of abstracting at the African Studies Centre Leiden” (publ. in African Research and Documentation 2013, 123, http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32653): “Since 1968 the African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, The Netherlands, has published … Read more
Tuesday 14 April 2015, 18:30-20:30 Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS Join the author and the panel as they discuss this powerful book documenting the impact of the Somali civil war on one man, who having been shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human, shares his dreams and desires and a need … Read more
Two news items about the database AfricaBib: 1. As of January 2015, it is possible to search through all 213,000 records simultaneously in a one-stop search in the database AfricaBib, via http://www.africabib.org/afbib.htm (or just click on a country on the map). 2. During the last months of 2014, Google Scholar approached the African Studies … Read more
This year’s meeting of ELIAS (European Librarians in African Studies) will take place at the 7th of July 2015 in Paris, hosted by BULAC – Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations. Venue: BULAC, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris. About BULAC : http://www.bulac.fr/bulac-in-english/who-are-we Registration The meeting is open to ELIAS members and other interested … Read more
African Spiritual States: Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Monday, 23 March 2015 from 13:00 to 19:00 (GMT) How have Christianity and Islam shaped public politics in Africa’s past and how do they do so in the present? To answer these questions, this workshop brings together a … Read more
African Trajectories: Travel and the Archives: papers from the 2014 Scolma Conference Noo Saro-Wiwa Endless Possibilities: Why Africa keeps travel writing alive Gerald Brisch Tackling Africa: the resourceful Mrs J. Theodore Bent Maria Sienkiewicz and Billy Frank An Eagle Eye: Africa in the 20th Century as viewed through the archives of Barclays Bank Oliver Coates … Read more
Articles Hans Muller and Jos Damen Wikipedia for Africanists David Clover Preserving and Protecting Press Freedom – Insights from the archive of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association Gwil Colenso A Case of Painstaking Planning and Preparation: the reception of the 1907 deputation of Basuto Chiefs in Britain Conference Report Birgitte Jansen SCECSAL XXI – a brief … Read more
Articles Mandy Banton Obscured if not hidden: records relating to Africa in the National Archives of the UK (TNA) Marlene C.A. Van Dorn A Half century of abstracting at the African Studies Centre, Leiden Mathias Alubabi Fubah The Thomas Hardie Dalrymple Grassfields Photographs Collection 1937–42 (Royal Commonwealth Society Collections, University of Cambridge Library) … Read more