Recently added articles from African Research & Documentation:

READING AFRICA: PRESENTATION AT THE SCOLMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 7TH JUNE 2006

Oct 01, 2007; Westlake, Paul ... 1. Introduction Reading Africa began as a project to support the publicising of the list of Africa's 100 Best Books with an event held at the British Council on the 30th January 2003, generally regarded as having been very successful, which had the main aim of contributing "to raising ...

A PRELIMINARY TERRORISM READING LIST FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Oct 01, 2007; Ofcansky, Thomas P ... Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa is not a new phenomenon. In apartheid South Africa, the minority government and the African National Congress regularly accused one another of committing terrorist attacks. Some other dramatic incidents included the 31 December 1980 bombing by Palestinian ...

GHANAIAN FUNERAL BROCHURES: AN UNEXPLORED RICH SOURCE OF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Oct 01, 2007; Adjah, Olive Akpebu ... Abstract Death in the Ghanaian society is regarded as one of the rites of passage that mark the transition from the present world to the other. It is believed to extend family relationship into infinity and therefore great effort is put into organising befitting funerals. In planning the ...

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GHANAIAN CHILDREN'S STORYBOOKS IN ENGLISH

Oct 01, 2007; Komasi, Mabel Mliwomor ... Introduction Written children's literature in Ghana is fairly recent. Before the arrival of the missionaries and the colonialists who introduced formal education and literacy into Ghana, parents and grandparents drew upon the rich stock of traditional Ghanaian folklore to entertain and ...

THE NIGERIAN QUR'ANIC MANUSCRIPT PROJECT: RETRIEVING A UNIQUE RESOURCE ON THE KANURI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Oct 01, 2007; Bondarev, Dmitry ... "Many African languages have a long written tradition, e.g. Ge'ez, Kiswahili, Hausa, etc." reads the summary of panel 21 of the AEGIS conference "African Manuscripts and Museum Collections in Europe".1 The list could be extended to include other names familiar to a wider audience, e.g., Fula(ni) ...

REVIEW ARTICLE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND COLONIALISM

Oct 01, 2007; MacKenzie, John M ... REVIEW ARTICLE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND COLONIALISM Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah S. Kaspin. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2002. xvi + 380 pp.. ISBN 0-520-22949-5. £17.95 Colonialist ...

Reference guide to Africa: a bibliography of sources

Oct 01, 2007; McIlwaine, John ... Reference guide to Africa: a bibliography of sources; by Al Kagan. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 2nd edn. 2005, ix, 223pp. ISBN 0-810-85208-X U.S.$57.00. This is the new edition of Reference guide to Africa, originally compiled by Al Kagan & Yvette Scheven. (Lanham, MD, Scarecrow ...

Africa: A Guide to Reference Material

Oct 01, 2007; Westley, David ... Africa: A Guide to Reference Material, by John McHwaine. Lochcarron: Hans Zell, 2nd revised and expanded edition.2007, liv, 680pp. ISBN 978-0-9541029-2-0. Price :£130 198 Euros, $260.00. First published in 1993 this new edition is an outstanding reference source. The intention of the ...

Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements

Oct 01, 2007; McBean, Bridget ... Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements; by Ruth Rikowski. Oxford, United Kingdom: Chandos Publishing, 2005.393 pp. ISBN: (hardback) 1-83443- 092-5, paperback 1-84334-084-4 The world is full of surprises. The ...

Tip and run: the untold story of the Great War in Africa

Oct 01, 2007; Pinfold, John ... Tip and run: the untold story of the Great War in Africa, by Edward Paice. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. xxvi, 488 pp. ISBN 0-297-84709-0 . £25. In popular memory it is the trench warfare of the Western Front which defines the First World War. Yet it was truly a world war, with ...

Art and the British Empire

Oct 01, 2007; Barringer, Terry ... Art and the British Empire; edited by Timothy Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, xxi + 442 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-7392-2. £60. The essays in this volume derive from papers presented at the conference 'Art and the British Empire', ...

My journey through African Heritage

Oct 01, 2007; McBean, Bridget ... My journey through African Heritage; by Alan Donovan. Kenya, Kenway Publications, East African Educational Publishers Ltd. 2004. 400 pp. ISBN: 9966-25-3394. Sweeping scenes, sharp photography and limited text are often associated with coffee table books. My Journey through African ...

The Forger's Tale: the search for Odeziaku

Oct 01, 2007; Barringer, Terry ... The Forger's Tale: the search for Odeziaku, by Stephanie Newell. Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2006, xii +223 pp. ISBN (hardbk) 13:978-0-8224-1709-6, (pbk) 13: 978-0-8214-1710-2. $46.95, 22.95. It is an extraordinary life story. John Moray Stuart-Young known to Nigerians as ...

The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration

Oct 01, 2007; Chan, Stephen ... The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration; edited by Xolela Mangcu. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, 2006, 64 pp. ISBN 0-7969-2164-4. This is a little book of three speeches made to commemorate Nelson Mandela's 87th birthday, and they are a quirky though ...

The Invisible Woman: Zara Schmelen, African Mission Assistant at the Cape

Oct 01, 2007; Barringer, Terry ... The Invisible Woman: Zara Schmelen, African Mission Assistant at the Cape (Lives, Legacies, Legends 4); by Ursula Triiper. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2006.118 pp. ISBN 3-905141-91-4. As a schoolgirl Ursula Triiper was fascinated when she uncovered the family secret - she had an ...

Note on Registratur AA.3: Guide to the SWAPO Collection in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Oct 01, 2007; Wallace, Marion ... Note on Registratur AA.3: Guide to the SWAPO Collection in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien Giorgio Miescher (comp.) Basler Afrika Bibliographien Namibia Resource Centre and Southern Africa Library, 2006 3rd ed., revised and enlarged, 322 p. In his useful introduction to this catalogue, ...

After abolition: Britain and the slave trade since 1807

Oct 01, 2007; Pinfold, John ... After abolition: Britain and the slave trade since 1807, by Marika Sherwood. London: LB. Tauris, 2007. ix, 246pp. ISBN 1-84511-365-0. £19.50. This book is passionate, angry, provocative, stimulating and thought provoking, but also at times infuriating. It is certain to arouse strong ...

NOTES AND NEWS

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... SCOLMA NEWS SCOLMA held its annual conference and AGM at the British Library Conference Centre on 12 June 2007. The theme for this year was Slavery and Abolition: sources in UK Libraries and Archives and the following presentations were given: John Pinfold, Department of ...

EUROPEAN AFRICANA LIBRARIANS' DAY AT LEIDEN, 10 JULY 2007

Oct 01, 2007; Barringer, Terry; Spina, Barbara ... A meeting for Africana Librarians' Day was held in Leiden on 10 July 2007, the day before the opening of the AEGIS European African Studies Conference. Organised by SCOLMA and the Afrika- Studiecentrum, it attracted 42 participants from ten European countries and several American ...

GRETCHEN WALSH: A TRIBUTE

Oct 01, 2007; Westley, David; McIlwaine, John ... Gretchen Walsh, head of the African Studies Library at Boston University, died unexpectedly on June 10th 2007 at the age of 65. She was a formidable force in Africana librarianship. Her colleague David Westley provides the following tribute and John Mcllwaine adds a few lines on behalf of ...