Tab1003 SCOLMA(the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Minutes of the 53nd Annual General Meeting held in the Conference Centre, the British Library, Friday 17th July 2015 during the annual conference, ‘There came a darkness’. Present:, Sheila Allcock, Christine Anderson, Mandy Banton, Terry Barringer, Ian Cooke, Dan Gilfoyle, Pat Hewitt, Lucy McCann, Alison Metcalfe, … Read more
Two million Africans fought in World War I. These troops came from the Caribbean Islands, Africa, America and Africans in Britain. They fought gallantly and heroically as many European soldiers. This workshop is part of the Empire Needs Men Exhibition, will explore how African troops from worldwide were involved in World War I. It will … Read more
Yorkshire African Studies Network Conference 2015 Family, Community and Livelihoods: Perspectives from Africa 19 May 2015, University of Sheffield Recent years have seen impressive levels of economic growth in many parts of Africa, with a new discourse of ‘Africa Rising’ coming to displace the widespread pessimism of the late twentieth century. 2015 is also the … Read more
Mandela and more The blog ‘Africa at LSE’ has much to offer the Africanist. Regular, well-informed posts on people and issues in the news, book reviews, a list of LSE experts, video, audio and podcasts and useful links. This week of course, there is much on Mandela, also an interesting piece on Jomo Kenyatta at … Read more
AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION No. 122 2013 CONTENTS Articles Hendrik Snyders ‘Patriotic pigeons’: pigeon politics and military service in war time South Africa, c.1899 – 1945 James Lowry and David Luyomba A Regional Approach to Building Digital Archives Capacity in Uganda Steven Spencer “Our Foreign Field”: Records of the Salvation Army in Africa Lucy Hughes … Read more
Articles Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook Digitisation at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: A consideration of processes and outcomes Caroline Williamson Accessing Material from the Genocide Archive of Rwanda Hilary Sunman A Very Different Land: Echoes of Kenya in the 1930s and ‘40s John Mackenzie The Year of Livingstone … Read more
Uloma Doris Onuoha and Rosaline Oluremi Opeke Online Social Networks as Correlate of Job Performance and Career Success among Librarians in Nigerian University Libraries ‘Niran Adetoro A Comparative Study of Availability and Access to Alternative Format by Visually Impaired Adults and Students in Nigeria Book Reviews Light on Darkness? Missionary Photography of Africa … Read more
Editorial John McIlwaine SCOLMA across the Years – A Personal View John McIlwaine and Terry Barringer SCOLMA: A chronology of fifty years, 1962 to 2012 Christine Kanyengo The Digital Age and African Studies Scholarship: Promoting access and visibility of information resources. Rose T. Kgosiemang Institutional Repositories at the University of Botswana Library: Opportunities and … Read more
PRESS RELEASE A unique online database and ongoing analysis of publishing and the book sector in Sub-Saharan Africa Hans Zell Publishing continues to update the online database of their much acclaimed reference resource Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography http://www.hanszell.co.uk/pbrssa/index.shtml first published in print format in 2008, and constantly updated thereafter. … Read more