News items from SCOLMA members
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
A workshop on the Global History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement will take place in Oxford on 11-12 March 2016, jointly hosted by the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and Maison Française d’Oxford. Saul Dubow of the University of London will give the key-note address, speaking on ‘Apartheid, anti-apartheid and anti-anti-apartheid’, and panels will consider the globalisation of … Read more
Film Africa 2015, the fifth festival showcasing the new features, documentaries and short films emerging from Africa, opens on 30 October and runs until 8 November 2015. 60 films from 28 African countries will be screened at venues across London and the programme includes several London, UK, European and World premieres. There is a strand … Read more
The Africa Utopia Festival takes place at the Southbank Centre, London, from Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th September 2015. The Festival, now in its third year, celebrates Africa’s arts and culture and features a range of musicians, a new play about migrants, talks, debates and workshops, a marketplace and African street food. Further information can … Read more
The annual meeting of ELIAS (European Librarians in African Studies) took place on Tuesday 7th July at the Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations, Paris. Thirty-three librarians from eight countries gathered for a tour of BULAC, two keynote addresses, short thematic contributions on the theme of Special Collections and country presentations. The 2016 annual meeting will take place in Tervuren, … 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
An exhibition of photographs of colourful wall paintings in Northern Ethiopian churches is on display in the African Studies Centre Library, Leiden, until 1st July 2015. The photographs were taken by Pieter de Kleer and the paintings, which are several hundred years old, show scenes from the Old and New Testaments and from the history … 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
A project has begun to develop a National Library service for Somaliland to improve educational standards and act as a stimulus for cultural heritage in the country. The project proposes a National Library, regional libraries and a book donation scheme to establish school libraries. Both individual and institutional partners are sought and the Finnish Library Association … Read more