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AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION No. 139 2021 CONTENTS John McIlwaine Writings on African archives (London, Zell for Scolma, 1996): supplement 10: publications of the decade 2011 to 2020 ………………………………. 3 Ayo Adeduntan Digitising an African Studies Audiovisual Archive: Moves, Setbacks, Lessons …………………………………………………………………………………….. 101 Adesanya M. Alabi The Decline of Indigenous Language in African Literature: A … Read more

AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION No. 138 2020 CONTENTS Hans Zell Digital vs Print resources at African University Institutions: A Discussion Document ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Jayne Pucknell British Empire & Commonwealth Collection: Exploring Our Online Catalogue ………………………………………………………………………………………. 17 John Pinfold Where Jules Verne and Rider Haggard Meet: The Amber City by Thomas Vetch …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 32 Obituary Abdul … Read more

AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION No. 137 2020 CONTENTS Lucy McCann How the UK’s African Studies Libraries and Archives reacted to the Coronavirus Pandemic …………………………………………………………………………. 3 Peter Davis Documenting Apartheid: a memoir of filming South Africa ……. 6 Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu A Short Report on Two Diaries in the Roman Catholic Archives in Navrongo-Ghana …………………………………………………………….. 28 … Read more

AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION   No. 136 2019 CONTENTS Correction and Apology …………………………………………………………………………….. Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2020: Decolonising African Studies: Questions and Dilemmas for Libraries, Archives and Collections, Edinburgh, 10 June 2019 Justin Cox and Stephanie Kitchen African Books Collective: African Books Published in the North ……………………………………………………………………………….. Joanne Davis Accessing UK Archival Holdings from South … 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

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

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

Articles From the Editor Hans Zell and Raphaël Thierry Book Donation Programmes for Africa: time for a reappraisal? Two perspectives. Part I: Book Donation Programmes in English-speaking Africa by Hans Zell Part II: Le don de livre, mais à quel prix, et en échange de quoi? Un regard sur le don de livre en afrique … Read more