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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.

African Research and Documentation 140 – 2021, Contents

AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION

No. 140 2021

CONTENTS

Muchefa, L. (2021). An Appraisal of Zimbabwe’s response to COVID-19, with a Special Focus on the Heritage Sector………. 3–9.

Sambrook, K., & Priest, C. (2021). Voyage to Madagascar: the making of an online exhibition……………….10–17.

Athol Fugard interviewed by Peter Davis. (2021)……………………18–34.

Obituaries

Muchefa, L. (2021). Archiving to the last breath: a tribute to Ivan Munhamu Murambiwa……………………….35–39.

Lowry, J. (2021). Ivan Murambiwa and the international archival community……………………………….. 40–41.

Acton, M. M. (2021). Andrew Finlay Walls and Libraries…………………………………………… 42–45.

Book Reviews

McCann, L. (2021). Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, by Kevin Shillington. Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2020. xxii, 354 pp. ISBN 978-1-77614-604-8. US$30.00………………………………. 46–48.

Barringer, T. (2021). Archie L. Dick, Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850s-1920s (Cambridge Elements in Publishing and Book Culture), Cambridge University Press, 2020, viii + 93 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-81470-6, £9.99…………………………….48–49.

Chouchene, A. M. (2021). Sarah Lefanu Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and Anglo Boer War, London, Hurst, 2020, xiii + 381, ISBN 978-1787-38309-8, £25………………………………………49–51.

Alabi, A. M. (2021). Rebecca Jones At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019, 312 pp. ISBN 978-1787-4459-18, £60………………………………….. 51–54.

Barringer, T. (2021). The Roots of Social Change: Life in Britain and the Empire 1815-1939, by Stuart Sherring, Poole, Ideas Cafe Publishing, 2021, ii + 399 pp. [No ISBN. Produced in a limited edition of 200 copies and sold through three specified charities at £21.99. A copy has been deposited at the British Library]……………………. 54–55.