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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

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

AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION    NO. 121       2013 Articles Jason M. Schultz Supporting Capacity Building for Archives in Africa: initiatives of the Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) since 1995 Rachel Playforth Unhiding African collections at the British Library for Development Studies Nichola Court When and why is a collection “hidden”? Awakening interest in the Hornung Papers … 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

Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook   Materials relating to sport in Africa in the collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: an overview Karl Magee  Boycotts and Bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council of Scotland Pascal Charitas Anglophone Africa in the Olympic Movement: the confirmation of a … Read more