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SCOLMA/IAI journal ABRD wins the Conover-Porter Award!!

We are so pleased to announce that Africa Bibliography, Research & Documentation (edited by Terry Barringer) has been awarded the African Studies Association’s 2024 Conover-Porter Award for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work!!  Congratulations to the Editorial Team consisting of Terry Barringer, Stephanie Kitchen, Barbara Spina, Richard Bartholomew and Ben Carson, for their excellent work and contributions to the journal.  Also IAI and Cambridge University Press for all of their support.

“The Conover-Porter Award was established in honor of two pioneers in African studies bibliography: Helen F. Conover and Dorothy B. Porter Wesley. The Award is selected every two years by the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in Africana bibliography and reference tools among works published in the preceding two years.”

The Award will be presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Chicago, Illinois in December this year.

Please see the official press release for more winners in the ASA prize-winning categories!

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