SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ? gbé l’árug?[1] (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate : Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of London CALL FOR PAPERS The question of writing in African languages has frequently been a … Read more
9th January 2019 Dear Baroness Amos, Re: SOAS Library – Open Letter I am writing on behalf of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) to express our deep concerns about the proposed cuts to SOAS Library. SOAS Library holds one of the most important African Studies collections in the UK, widely … Read more
SCOLMA Annual Conference Decolonising African Studies : questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections Monday 10 June 2019 University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower 2.12, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE CALL FOR PAPERS There has been an increasing call for the decolonisation of the curriculum across the disciplines in Northern institutions and elsewhere, … Read more
The papers of Derek Ingram (1925-2018), journalist, author and authority on the Commonwealth, have been catalogued and are available to researchers at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library in Senate House, University of London. After working for the Daily Mail for seventeen years Ingram was a founder of Gemini News Service in 1967 which provided … Read more
Bookings are now open for the SCOLMA 2018 Conference which will be held at the University of Birmingham, Monday 10th September. ‘Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa’ will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall … Read more
The papers of Richard Hall (1925-1997), journalist and historian of Africa, have been catalogued and are available to researchers in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library in Senate House, University of London. Hall was editor of the Central African Mail and Times of Zambia, founded the financial and political bulletin Africa Analysis and wrote books … Read more
SCOLMA’s annual conference, ‘Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa’, will take place at the University of Birmingham on Monday 10 September 2018. This conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) … 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
A collection of African Blue Books has been digitised by Microform Academic Publishers and made available on their British Online Archives database. The collection covers 13 former colonies and protectorates, with volumes dating from 1821 to 1953. ‘Blue Book’ is the name given to the annual statistical reports which governors were required to compile. The … Read more
13th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop St Antony’s College, Oxford 3 March 2012 http://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/events/10th_researching_africa_day