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Royal African Society Event

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 18:30-20:30

Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Join the author and the panel as they discuss this powerful book documenting the impact of the Somali civil war on one man, who having been shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human, shares his dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.

Speakers:

Jonny Steinberg, author & Associate Professor in African Criminology, Oxford University;  Ismail Einashe, journalist. Chaired by: Michela Wrong, writer & journalist.

To register :-

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/event/man-good-hope

Please note this is an event organised by the Royal African Society – please contact them – not Scolma – to register or with any queries or comments

Somaliland National Library in development

A project has begun to develop a National Library service for Somaliland to improve educational standards and act as a stimulus for cultural heritage in the country. The project proposes a National Library, regional libraries and a book donation scheme to establish school libraries. Both individual and institutional partners are sought and the Finnish Library Association has become the first institutional partner. Information on the project can be found at http://snllibrary.com/ .

Book – ‘The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa’

Scolma is pleased to announce that Scolma member Elizabeth Williams (Goldsmiths, London) has published a book – ‘The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-apartheid Struggle’. The book covers British black communities’ support for the Anti-apartheid movement, and how they showed solidarity with events in South Africa. Source material includes material contained in the Anti-apartheid Movement Archive, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Further information about the book is available here.