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Mandela and more

Mandela and more

The blog ‘Africa at LSE’ has much to offer the Africanist. Regular, well-informed posts on people and issues in the news, book reviews, a list of LSE experts, video, audio and podcasts and useful links. This week of course, there is much on Mandela, also an interesting piece on Jomo Kenyatta at LSE.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/

Stephen Ellis writes about Mandela on the website of the African Studies Centre Leiden

http://www.ascleiden.nl/?q=news/memoriam-nelson-mandela-18-july-1918-5-december-2013

A tribute in posters from SAHA collections

A tribute in posters from SAHA collections

As the world mourns the loss of a renowned icon, Nelson Mandela, SAHA has pulled out some of the best Madiba posters from its archive to say “siyabulela Tata, ulale ngoxolo!” (thank you father, may you rest in peace’ – translated from his native language, isiXhosa).
> See the gallery

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.”

-Nelson Mandela

CAMP microfilming of Liberian newspapers

CAMP has microfilmed issues of seven Liberian newspaper titles from the holdings of Michigan State University.  Michigan State has been committed to acquiring Liberian newspapers for many years, and CAMP has allocated funding on several occasions for the preservation of batches of newspapers from this collection.  CAMP efforts have resulted in a collection that is unique in North America and will now be available on microfilm to CAMP and CRL members.

The newspapers microfilmed by CAMP cover this turbulent time in Liberia from a variety of perspectives:

Daily Times  (January 1997 – February 2001)

Front Page  (November 2009 – December 2011)

In Profile  (November 2008 – December 2011)

Insight  (June 2010 – December 2011)

New Dawn  (January 2010 – December 2011)

New Republic  (July 2009 – December 2011)

New Vision  (April 2005 – December 2011)

This set of titles was approved in November 2012 by CAMP members.  At its November 2013 meeting in Baltimore, CAMP members voted to fund the microfilming of 13 additional Liberian newspaper titles collected by Michigan State.