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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

“Publishing, Platforms, & African Literature in the Digital Age” – SCOLMA 2024 Online Seminar Series

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

About the Seminar: Publishing, Platforms, & African Literature in the Digital Age

Wednesday March 13th Online from 13:00-14:00 GMT. Register now!

“In the last decade social media, ebooks, and other digital platforms have been transforming how and where writers are read. This seminar explores the ways in which these changes have affected the production, circulation and collecting of literature from the African continent.

Chaired by Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol), this session brings together Professor Ainehi Edoro-Glines (UW-Madison, Brittle Paper) and Julian Russ (Baobab e-Book Services). Each panellist, in very different ways, brings a career-long perspective on promoting African writing and exploring the technical, economic, social and cultural implications of digital platforms for authors, for publishers and for reading publics. In this roundtable we will explore the implications of their work for those who manage library and archive collections.”

About the Series:

This FREE and ONLINE series of 5 seminars returns to the theme of a SCOLMA publication from 2014, ‘African Studies in the Digital Age’. Through a programme of discussion events we will be exploring some key ways in which this field has changed over that decade.

The season will address a variety of topics including digital repatriation projects, new modes of sharing, researching and teaching with digital collections, collecting born digital records, and the creative re-use and curation of digital heritage.

Each event in the season is intended to be structured as a conversation or round table, and the season will include collection holders, researchers, digital experts and artists from the UK, the African continent and beyond.

The focus, given our key audience, will in large part be on the practicalities and challenges of doing this kind of work. Our aim is to share knowledge, stimulate discussion on best practice, and identify key opportunities in the field.

Seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 13:00-13:55 GMT:

January 31st
February 14th
February 28th
March 13th
April 17th

The topics, speakers, and registration information will be posted ahead of the respective seminar.

Support SCOLMA

UK Library & Archives Group on Africa (SCOLMA) is a registered charity (No. 325086). As a non-profit organisation, we would love your help in continuing our mission to provide the best possible service for academics, students and other researchers working in African studies. We publish a journal, Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation, run a directory of African Studies libraries, organise conferences and seminars, and network with other librarians, archivists and researchers, in the UK, Europe, Africa and the US. We also act as an expert body providing specialist advice.

Please consider donating any amount you can when you get your free ticket.