News items from SCOLMA members
Bookings are now being taken for SCOLMA’s annual conference which will take place at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh on Monday 11th September 2017. The theme is ‘Document to Digital: how does digitisation aid African research?’ and speakers from Africa, Europe, the USA and the UK will consider projects which have digitised archives, … Read more
No. 127 of SCOLMA’s journal African Research and Documentation has been published and contains a major article by Hans Zell and Raphaël Thierry on book donation programmes in anglophone and francophone Africa. The authors examine current book donation practices, profiling leading book donation organisations in the UK, the Netherlands, the USA and South Africa, and … Read more
SCOLMA’s annual conference will take place on Monday 11 September 2017 at the National Library of Scotland and have the theme ‘Document to Digital: How does Digitisation Aid African Research?’. The Call for Papers can be seen at http://scolma.org/event/scolma-annual-conference-2017-document-to-digital-how-does-digitisation-aid-african-research-call-for-papers/ and abstracts are invited by 24 April 2017.
Melanie Bunce, senior lecturer in Journalism at City University and co-editor of Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century, will be speaking on “Reporting Africa: New storytellers, new stories?” on Wednesday 15th February. The seminar, organised by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Jounalism at the University of Oxford, will be held in the … Read more
The University of Stirling Archives has launched its first crowdfunding campaign to open up the Peter Mackay Archive. Mackay (1926-2013) was a tireless campaigner for African liberation, becoming politically active shortly after emigrating to Rhodesia in 1948. Following his death in Zimbabwe in 2013 the archive was carefully packed up by his family and shipped … Read more
Senate House Library, University of London, has created a new subject guide to its archive collections relating to apartheid which can be found at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/special-collections/archives-manuscripts/subject-guides-to-archives/apartheid . The Library holds a number of important collections including the papers of journalist and political activist Ruth First (some of whose papers have been digitised) and of civil rights … Read more
On 10 November 2016 Dr Marion Wallace, Curator of African Collections at the British Library and former Chair of SCOLMA, will be giving a seminar at the African Studies Centre Leiden on the experience of curating the West Africa exhibition, ‘West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song’, which was held at the British Library from October 2015 … Read more
Bristol Record Office is undertaking a project to audit the photographic and film collections which it received from the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum and to catalogue a selection of them. A number of collections, covering over 6,500 photographs and 70 films and including material on Africa, are now available for research. The catalogue … Read more
16th June 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the uprising by Soweto school students which inspired an international movement against apartheid. ‘Remember Soweto’ is a symposium being held at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedord Way, London WC1, 5-8pm on 16th June, where former student activists, historians and journalists will reflect on the domestic and … Read more
The Britain Zimbabwe Society will be holding its annual Research Day on Saturday 18 June 2016 at St Antony’s College, Oxford. The theme is ‘Health and Politics in Zimbabwe and the Diasporas’ and the keynote address will be given by Dr Portia Manangazira, Director of Disease Control in the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health. Panels will … Read more