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“Online engagement, African archives & digital public history” – SCOLMA 2024 Online Seminar Series

Join us ONLINE for the last of five seminars in “African Studies in the Digital Age” – SCOLMA’s 2024 Seminar Series

Poster with details of Apr 24th seminar

About the seminar: Online engagement, African archives & digital public history

Wednesday April 24th Online from 13:00-14:00 BST. Register now!

If you’ve enjoyed our past seminars, conferences, or simply would like to support SCOLMA, please consider donating any amount you can when you get your free ticket to this seminar.

“The exponential development of digital tools and platforms from Whatsapp to Digital Humanities have radically shifted opportunities for public history – new opportunities for collective sense-making and narrating the past. This final round table in the SCOLMA seminar season addresses the work involved in engaging discussion around African collections through these platforms, re-mixing and connecting collections, short-circuiting colonial logics.

In very diverse ways our three panellists have developed projects that have brought together transnational audiences and African collections: Érika Melek Delgado (King’s College, London) co-director of the Freedom Narratives Database, JC Niala (History of Science Museum, Oxford) who has led UK discussion on transforming community access to African collections, and Anne Samson (independent historian) founder of the online Great War in Africa Association. We’ll hear from them about the successes and difficulties of virtual collaboration, in creating and sustaining online audiences and projects, and what they have learned through their processes about the needs and interests of online audiences for UK African collections.”

About the series: This seminar has been added to a series page where you’re able to see all past events in the series. The recordings of all 5 seminars will be posted to the SCOLMA YouTube channel in due time following our last seminar.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the SCOLMA committee had to change the final seminar date from April 17th to April 24th. We look forward to having you join us on Wednesday April 24th at 13:00 BST, and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

 

Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation: Volume 2 – November 2023

Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation
Volume 2 – November 2023

A ‘legacy of suspicion’: the UK National Archives, the ‘migrated archives’ and the insecticide debacle of 2022
Mandy Banton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 1-11

What we lost in the Jagger Library fire
Clive Kirkwood, Mandy Noble, Michal Singer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 12-29

After the fire: SCOLMA assists the Jagger Library
Lucy McCann, Sarah Rhodes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 30-31

Africa and African languages in the SOAS Library’s Special Collections
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 32-49

‘Mutuality in mission’: studying the scholarly ideals and practices of Frans J. Verstraelen and Gerdien Verstraelen-Gilhuis (1942–89)
Sjoerd Kompier
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 50-57

A biblio-historiographical study of doctoral theses in history at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1961–21
Saheed Balogun Amusa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 58-82

Chilembwe in Trafalgar Square – an appraisal
David T. Stuart-Mogg
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 83-93

Displaced and disputed archives: the international debate continues
Mandy Banton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 94-100

Book Reviews

Kwesi Yankah, Beyond the Political Spider: critical issues in African humanities. Makhanda South Africa: NISC on behalf of the African Humanities Association (pb £47 – 978 1 920 03380 4). 2021, xiv + 325 pp
Joanne Ruth Davis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 101-103

Eyitope O. Ogunbodede and Olusanjo M. A. Daramola, Great Ife at 60: advancing the frontiers of knowledge and culture (1961–2021), Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile-Ife (price unknown, 978 978 136 092 3). 2022 376 pp
Saheed Balogun Amusa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 103-105

Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu and Grant Parker (eds), (u)Mzantzi Classics: dialogues in decolonisation from Southern Africa. Cape Town: African Minds and Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, (pb R300 – 978 192 8 50230 2, (ePDF) 978 192 8 50231 9). 2022, vi + 274 pp.
Terry Barringer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023, pp. 105-107

Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation: Volume 1 – November 2022

Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation
Volume 1 – November 2022

Editorial
Terry A. Barringer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 1-2

Empowering African languages through publishing: whose responsibility?
Munyao Kilolo
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 3-11

Nigerian university presses: a bleak picture
Hans M. Zell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 12-30

The British Library’s collections of African-language publishing
Marion Wallace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 31-46

An overview of the British Library Yorùbá language collection
Kólá Túbòsún
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 47-62

International library standards for low-resource countries: the example of Rwanda
Erica von Flüe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 63-69

Misanthropology: the makers of Siliva the Zulu
Peter Davis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 70-84

A Note on the Making of Siliva the Zulu
Heather Hughes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2022, pp. 85-87