News items from SCOLMA members
Applications are invited for a University of Sheffield and British Library PhD scholarship: Freedom, Oppression and Resistance: Evolving Stories in South African Political Ephemera and Propaganda, 1948- 2004. The project will work with the British Library’s collections of political ephemera, to examine the evolving nature of political participation within contested public spheres in South Africa. … Read more
Africa Writes, the annual literary and book festival takes place from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th July 2013. This year, the Royal African Society have partnered with The British Library to bring you an exciting and wide-ranging programme that will offer something for everyone.See the lineup http://royalafricansociety.org/africawrites2013 Please note that SCOLMA is not an organiser of this event … Read more
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Archives of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum – current position Report on a visit to Bristol Record Office 12.11.12 Lucy McCann (Secretary, SCOLMA) John Pinfold (SCOLMA committee member) Marion Wallace (Chair, SCOLMA) Three members of SCOLMA visited Bristol Record Office on 12 November to discuss … Read more
The BRA conference 2012 will take place on Monday 10 December at Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH The conference will cover the archives and records of the empire and the Maurice Bond Lecture will be given by Lord Hennessey. For further details of the programme and registration information click here. For further … Read more
PRESS RELEASE A unique online database and ongoing analysis of publishing and the book sector in Sub-Saharan Africa Hans Zell Publishing continues to update the online database of their much acclaimed reference resource Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography http://www.hanszell.co.uk/pbrssa/index.shtml first published in print format in 2008, and constantly updated thereafter. … Read more
The University of Leeds, Centre for African Studies, and The African Studies Association UK (ASAUK) are delighted to host: Ngugi wa Thiong’o “Africa in the Language of Scholarship” 6th September 2012, 6:15pm Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds No need to book – free of charge, open to … Read more
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World June 26 to 28, 2013 The fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5) will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 26 to 28, 2013. It will be organized by the Centro de Estudos Africanos – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (African Studies Centre of the Lisbon University Institute) … Read more
SCOLMA Statement on the Situation in Mali SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) adds its voice to the deep concern expressed in many quarters about current events in Mali. In particular, we share the concerns raised by the International Committee of the Blue Shield and the UNESCO World Heritage Committee about the actual … Read more
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Minutes of the 50th Annual General Meeting held at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, on Tuesday 26th June 2012 Present: Sheila Allcock, Shirley Ardener, Mandy Banton, Terry Barringer, David Clover, Gwil Colenso, Ian Cooke, Maria del Rosario, David Easterbrook, Halima Egberongbe, Joseph Essel, Marilyn Glanfield, Kate Haines, … Read more
Images from the conference