News items from SCOLMA members
Film Africa 2014, the Royal African Society’s annual festival celebrating the best of African cinema, begins on 31 October and runs until 9 November. 85 films from 23 African countries will be screened at venues in central London, including thrillers, historical dramas, documentaries and short films, with particular strands marking the 20th anniversary of democracy … Read more
SCOLMA Annual Conference “There came a darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I 17 July 2015 The British Library CALL FOR PAPERS The first shot fired for Britain in the First World War was from the rifle of an African soldier in West Africa. The last German troops to surrender did so on African … Read more
SCOLMA’s edited volume, ‘African Studies in the Digital Age. Disconnects?’, was launched on Tuesday 9th September 2014 at the biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the UK at the University of Sussex. Drawing on papers presented at SCOLMA’s 50th anniversary conference the publication explores the opportunities and problems brought about by the digital … Read more
The first three catalogues resulting from the cataloguing of the Oxfam archive at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, are now available online. 850 boxes of archive material and almost 500 posters are now open to researchers, much of the material relating to Oxfam’s development and humanitarian work in Africa. The catalogues cover the records … Read more
A call has gone out for workshops for the ‘Africa Works! Creating New Partnerships’ International Conference which will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, on 16 and 17 October 2014. Organised by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, and the Netherlands African Business Council, the conference aims to explore the challenges and opportunities which Africa poses … Read more
Registration is open for the 2014 SCOLMA annual conference which will be taking place on Wednesday 2 July at the University of Birmingham. The theme is ‘African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive’ and Noo Saro-Wiwa, author of ‘Looking for Transwonderland: travels in Nigeria’ will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers will consider travel writing in … Read more
Comfort Ero , Programme Director, International Crisis Group Monday, Monday, 28th April, 3PM Royal African Society, Lower Meeting Room, 36 Gordon Square, London, London WC1H 0PD In their latest report in the Curbing Violence in Nigeria series, International Crisis Group looks at the Boko Haram insurgency.In the past 4 years the Boko Haram (real name: Jama’atu Ahlis … Read more
Submissions are invited from final year Masters students at universities in Africa and the Netherlands for the Africa Thesis Award. This annual award, offered by the African Studies Centre in Leiden, encourages research and writing on sub-Saharan Africa and on African cultures and societies. The winner will receive 1,000 Euros and their thesis will be published … Read more
A new website drawing on the Anti-Apartheid Movement archive at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, has been launched at a reception at South Africa House, London, on 20th March. ‘Forward to Freedom: the history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959-1994’ (http://www.aamarchives.org) features video, documents, posters, photographs, badges and other items and interviews with 30 … Read more
An exhibition of photographs from Rwanda has opened at Kings College London. The photographs have resulted from a workshop organised by international photographers Andrew Esiebo and Brendan Bannon, which asked people in Rwanda to take photographs representing their lives, and to present images of Rwanda to an international audience. The images show economic change in … Read more