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National Archives of Zimbabwe
Authors: Kamba Angeline S 
Published: April 2022

The National Archives of Zimbabwe came into being as a result of the passing of the Archives Act in April 1935 whose aim was: “To make provision for the preservation, custody, control and disposal of public records and judicial records of Southern Rhodesia and for matters incidental thereto.” In 1938 further legislation was passed which affected the activities of National Archives; this was the Printed Publications Act. In terms of this Act, the Archives receives a copy of every book, pamphlet, periodical, newspaper and sheet of letter press published in this country. Hence over the years a full-scale library has grown within National Archives.In 1947 the services of the Archives were extended to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and legislation in each of those countries provided that the archives office of Rhodesia should also be the official archives office for each of them.
The Mapping of Africa: A Guide to Sources
Authors: Ferro David P 
Published: April 2022

From time to time undergraduates at Edinburgh University taking a geography course in the Centre of African Studies are asked to prepare a bibliography and evaluation of maps on a particular topic for a country of their choice. The student's sequence of tasks is to select a country that has been mapped relatively well; compile a cartobibliography; locate copies of the maps; and finally, evaluate them. Such a process is also very familiar to map librarians, particularly in the course of acquisition and reference work.In attempting to ascertain what mapping is available and to evaluate it, two approaches might be adopted. The student could turn to a guide to or bibliography of Africana in the hope that this would lead directly to sources of information on cartographic publishing. Alternatively, cartographic sources could be approached first. Certainly the first approach yields some useful sources but has its limitations.
The Italian-African Institute (Instituto Italo-Africano, Iia)
Authors: Roberts Hazel 
Published: April 2022

The Italian-African Institute is the oldest Italian organisation concerned with Africa, and it is a public agency acting under the sponsorship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its headquarters are in Rome - Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 16, 00197 Rome - and it has eight regional and provincial branches, including those in Turin, Naples, Bologna, Bari and Reggio Calabria.Its beginnings were in the former ‘Italian Institute for Africa’, founded in 1906, and it carries out the same kind of work but extended and expanded. Its aims include spreading knowledge about Africa and its problems, and forming closer links and friendly cooperation between Italy and Africa.
The Africana Library at the “Stadt- Und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main”
Authors: Wolcke Irmtraud D. 
Published: April 2022

In Germany several university libraries are obliged to procure scientific African literature for lending. These are:City and University Library, Frankfurt (Subsaharan Africa)Lower Saxony State and University (Republic of Library, Göttingen South Africa)University Library, Tübingen (North Africa)University Library, Münster/Westf. (Afrikaans)Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel (Economics)These special collections came into existence about 1960 and were based on existing pre-war stocks.Even before the establishment of the special collections programme, however, there was a traditional Africa collection in Frankfurt. The roots of the Oriental and African collection in the former municipal library go back to a donation by the founder of Ethiopian studies, Job Ludolf (1624-1704), who was also one of the first to explore African linguistics, with his papers on the language of the Hottentots. A valuable collection of Ethiopian manuscripts was conveyed to the library by the scientist Eduard Rüppell (1794-1884).
Periodicals from Africa: the Next Step
Authors: Blake David 
Published: April 2022

Maurice Line, Director-General of the British Library Lending Division, has said that one can always tell where parties of librarians have been by the trail of union catalogues they leave behind them. He added that ‘there lurks an innate tendency to construct union catalogues in the same way as some species of the animal kingdom have exotic and apparently irrational habits, like the mating displays of kangaroos or the exotic nest building of some birds’.SCOLMA has been involved in constructing union catalogues for a long time. It is now twenty-three years since it began recording African periodicals — ‘somewhat lightheartedly’, according to Donald Simpson — and we have now published two lists containing almost 23,000 titles with details of library holdings for probably about 13,000. I have a file of about 3,000 extra titles, which is likely to grow considerably in the next few months.
The use of bibliographic databases in African studies
Authors: Seeley Janet 
Published: April 2022

The online searching of databases to retrieve bibliographical information is increasingly becoming common research practice in a wide range of disciplines. For the scholar of African studies there is as yet no single comprehensive database covering the literature from the continent on a multi-disciplinary basis; however there are a number of existing databases which serve as a useful and up-to-date bibliographical tool. The aim of this paper is briefly to outline those currently available databases which are of relevance to African studies and to offer some suggestions as to how this valuable service may best be utilised.Online information retrieval services first became readily available to the public in the early 1970s, chiefly in the area of science and technology.
Biographical Sources for Colonial History in Africa
Authors: Simpson D H 
Published: April 2022

Tony Kirk-Greene has described to you some of the separate biographies and autobiographies relating to Colonial Administrators in Africa, and also the Staff Lists, Blue Books and other works recording their careers. I would like to follow this by looking at the value of more general biographical reference works in this respect.The most familiar of such works are the Dictionary of National Biography and Who's Who. The DNB, originally published in 63 volumes, containing 29,000 entries, between 1882 and 1900, supplemented in three further volumes and now brought up to date with ten year supplements, the latest of which brings it to 1970, concentrates on British biographies, but has also included what was originally called “Colonial achievement”, including administrators.
The School of Oriental and African Studies Library: Africa Division
Authors: McKee M D 
Published: April 2022

The growth of the Africa Division of the Library has reflected the growth in the range of the School's activities in African studies. Before the war the emphasis was on languages, but since the war the policy has been to expand into the fields of the humanities and social sciences.Works on African languages and cultures now total about 32,000. The African languages section is very strong and the collections in the humanities and social sciences are being built up as rapidly as finances permit.
The Information Services of the Tropical Products Institute
Authors: Piper Kenneth 
Published: April 2022

The Tropical Products Institute (TPI) helps developing countries to derive greater benefit from their plant and animal resources by dealing with the scientific, technical and economic problems that arise after harvesting. This is done by the provision of an advistory and information service, the supply of experts and training facilities and by carrying out research and development studies. TPI is one of three scientific units of the Ministry of Overseas Development; the other two units are the Land Resources Division and the Centre for Overseas Pest Research. The purpose of this article is to describe the work of TPI's Information Department, particularly the services provided by its Library and Technical Index, and also to indicate the range of publications it produces.TPI has its origin in the Plant and Animal Products section of the Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial Institute which began its work in 1894.
African Studies in Australia
Authors: Higgott Richard 
Published: April 2022

It was originally intended that this article would be the result of an informal “sounding” of a few Australian academics. After several such “soundings”, it became increasingly obvious that there was sufficient interest in Africa to warrant a reasonably detailed survey of the existing situation. A short questionnaire was therefore drawn up with the hopes of obtaining the following information:(i)The names of academics and postgraduate students with a research interest in Africa.(ii)The nature of this research and any resulting publications.(iii)Courses taught in Australian universities concerning Africa, or which contained a substantial African interest, and approximate number of students involved each year.(iv)What would be the level of support for the calling of a conference/meeting of academics with an African interest?
Caribbean research in African Studies: an index to ASAWI bulletin / Caribbean journal of African studies
Authors: Rouse-Jones Margaret D. 
Published: April 2022

The African Studies Association of the West Indies (ASAWI) came into being in 1967 for the primary purpose of promoting a scholarly interest in African Studies in the Caribbean area. In the context of this region, the term “African Studies” was to be used to include elements of African culture which persisted in or had an influence on institutions in the region. ASAWI aimed at making a contribution to the body of scholarship on African topics, especially in subjects where West Indian sources and interpretations would add another dimension. ASAWI Bulletin (hereafter Bulletin) was a major forum through which the Association disseminated information to the public.Eight issues of the bulletin were published between 1967 and 1976. It began as a mimeographed item, but after three issues it appeared in printed form. By the time eight issues had appeared, the editors acknowledged that the Bulletin from its inception had “showed signs of life more akin to a journal.“
A bibliography of the published & unpublished writings of A.T. Matson
Authors: Matson A.T. , Simpson D.H. 
Published: April 2022

Albert Thomas Matson, ‘Mat’ to his many friends, was born in Sipson, Middlesex in 1915. He was educated at Southall Grammar School before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1939.1n 1944 he was seconded to the Colonial Service in Kenya as a Health Inspector. After serving in Kisii he was transferred to Nandi District in 1949, where he remained until his retirement fourteen years later.His interest in Kenyan history arose from a request from Senior Chief Elija arap Chepkwony and his colleagues of the Nandi District Council that the history of their people should be written. Matson responded to their request by undertaking research into oral history in the course of his travels as a Health Inspector and by consulting and copying a great range of archival sources, official and personal, in East Africa and in Britain.
The Study of African Languages in the United Kingdom: Part II
Authors: Dalby David 
Published: April 2022

The first part of this review covered the growth of African language studies in the United Kingdom from 1895 to 1970, by which time the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at SOAS (Department of Africa) represented the largest group of African language specialists in the world.This expansion had been due in large part to the recommendations of the Scarbrough Commission in 1947, although that same commission was also responsible for the confinement of African language studies to a single British institution. The Scarbrough request for a regular review of Oriental and African studies has been disregarded by successive governments, and even the solitary Hayter review, undertaken in 1961 by the UGC, largely ignored the field of African language studies (apart from an unfulfilled request that they be pursued at Oxford as well as at SOAS).
Postcards of Southern Africa
Authors: Atkinson A.K.W. 
Published: April 2022

The postcard is one of the latest arrivals among the “collectables”. The urge to collect postage stamps has a longer history, because adhesives arrived so much earlier. The postal historian looks back even futher in time. But the postcard was not born until 1 October, 1869, and the picture postcard did not appear until the 1870s.There was a world-wide craze for collecting postcards which began at the turn of the century and persisted until 1918. Then it came to an abrupt end, partly because of the doubling of postage on cards (from ½d to 1d for inland mail) and partly because the more general use of the telephone superseded the postcard as a medium for brief messages.In recent years there has been a revival of interest in collecting picture postcards. However the emphasis has moved away from contemporary issues (though many enthusiasts do concentrate on the “moderns”).
A guide to the post independence ministerial records in the National Archives of Ghana, 1920-1988
Authors: Akussah Harry 
Published: April 2022

Intellectual access to archival sources in the National Archives of Ghana in recent times has been the focus of many prominent historians and academics both local and foreign. Many researchers (Gareth Austin, 1986; Adam Jones, 1987) have documented the inadequacy of search tools, the lack of physical control, and the deteriorating valuable sources in this Archive which was one of the pioneering institutions in Africa. Out of desperation some have even prepared summary guides to some of the holdings they have used or are familiar with (Gareth Austin, 1986)Though the archival tradition in Ghana spans a period of five decades, there is no comprehensive guide to the total holdings of the Archives. This inadequacy has for a long time eclipsed the real value of the contents of the Archives.
The Library of the Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire
Authors: Meynard Francois 
Published: April 2022

Fondé en 1958 par un groupe d'universitaires bordelais, le Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire fonctionne dans le cadre de l'Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux. II est associé depuis 1968 à la Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques et bénéficie depuis 1967 du statut d'équipe de recherche associée au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS - ERA 70 devenue UA 977). Outre l'équipe de recherche ainsi constituée, le CEAN comprend une unité d'enseignement et un centre de documentation.Le Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire organise des études de troisième cycle aboutissant à un doctorat “ETUDES AFRICAINES” dont le Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) constitue la première année de scolarité. L'enseignement pluridisciplinaire est organisé autour de quatre enseignements principaux: science politique, économie, droit et administration publique, relations internationales.
Colonial Service biographical data: the published sources
Authors: Kirk-Greene A.H.M. 
Published: April 2022

A consistent feature of contemporary research into the colonial period is the emphasis on personalities. The modern historian is increasingly aware of how cogently he may need to identify and interpret who was who before he can start to explain why was what. In support of this human approach, one may cite the view of the most recent historian of empire. “Personality not policy”, argues Martin Daly in the first volume of his history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Empire on the Nile (1986), “determined the course of the Condominium” (p.452). The same thesis underlay my own earlier profile of Africa's administrators: “Only when we are intimately acquainted with who the imperial administrators are can we proceed to a soundly-based study of imperialism” (The Sudan Political Service, 1982, 1). Robert Collins’ interpretation of the Sudan's administration was postulated on a similar hypothesis:Without some understanding of the imperialists themselves, it is impossible to examine imperialism, to assess its impact, or to comprehend the social and political relationships, attitudes, and states of mind it created (African Affairs, 1972, 71, 293).
National Herbarium [Ethiopia]: From Where to Where?
Authors: Teferra Damtew 
Published: April 2022

Ethiopia is located in Eastern Africa and lies between 3° and 18° N and 33° and 48° E in what is usually called The Horn of Africa. It borders Sudan to the North, North West and West; Kenya to the South; Somalia to the South East and East and the Djibouti Republic and the Red Sea to the East and North East.The Country enjoys great geographical diversity ranging from high and rugged mountains, flat topped plateaus, deep gorges to river valleys and lowland plains. The vegetation is also as varied: ranging from desert, tropical forest, alpine shrub to grassland. Ethiopia has a greater diversity of climate, topography and soils than almost any other African Country.
Libraries and library automation in Zimbawbe: a brief overview
Authors: Hopkinson Alan 
Published: April 2022

Zimbabwe has a rather old-fashioned British air about it to one arriving from England. One of the most common cars is still the Ford Anglia, and Woolworths in Harare has the distinctive shop front and the island counters from behind which assistants serve their customers, so familiar to those who can remember the store in the 1950s. Many street names and the names of suburbs reflect the names of people and places with English connections, so one feels very much at home.The libraries are under-resourced and have to improvise, but they are not old-fashioned. The National Archives is the national library, having the right of copyright deposit, and the public records office as it keeps the archived records of central government, local authorities and parastatals. It also houses splendid displays of documents illustrating the history of the country and includes statues of important leaders.
The Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) on the South African Studies (SAS) CD-ROM as an example of database publishing
Authors: Kotze Antoinette 
Published: April 2022

Database publishing is an important element in the flow of information.With its introduction in 1972 (Gurnsey, 1985), online database publishing offered a technical solution to the problem of keeping up with the massive increase in literature, and of providing online access and retrieval of information for a mainly technical user market. In most developed countries, online database publishing now forms a fundamental part of the information infrastructure. Unfortunately, the lack of such infrastructure in developing countries is increasing the gap in information flow between the information rich and information poor.Today CD-ROM, with its potential for high density storage, user friendly interface and versatile application, is regarded as an appropriate solution for database publishing in support of cost-effective online access, and also for facilitating wider exposure to databases to reach an extended user market.
The Royal Geographical Society expedition to Zanzibar
Authors: Thurston Anne 
Published: April 2022

In June of this year, the Royal Geographical Society will be sending a team led by John Walford, head of modern records at the Public Record Office, to examine the condition of the Zanzibar Government Archives and to make recommendations for their future care. Mr. Walford carried out a similar UNESCO sponsored survey of the Kenya National Archives last year. This year he will be looking at documents which not only push back by several decades the period for which records are available for East Africa as a whole but which present different technical problems. The records themselves constitute a small collection, totalling about a thousand linear feet, but their size bears little relation to their importance.Zanzibar, with the rest of the East African littoral, was part of a declining Arab empire when, toward the close of the fifteenth century, the Portuguese began their conquest of the area.
Nigerian journals as major sources of information to researchers in Nigeria
Authors: Apeji E. Adeche 
Published: April 2022

Researchers are concerned with the discovery of new truths and the expansion of new frontiers of knowledge. This is in realization of the fact that development — in whatever form — invariably depends on the growth of available stock of useful information and knowledge. New information and knowledge may be disseminated through such graphic formats as monographs, journals, theses etc. This study examines the extent Nigerian researchers use journals based in Nigeria in their research efforts.Specifically, this study will try to:(1) Determine the extent to which journals are used by researchers in Nigeria.(2) Determine the extent to which journals used by Nigerian researchers are Nigerian based.(3) Identify, discuss and suggest solutions to the problems that minimise the use of Nigerian journals as sources of information by Nigerian researchers.
Writings on African Archives. London, Zell, 1996: First Supplement
Authors: McIlwaine John 
Published: April 2022

As promised in the published volume, this is the first of what it is hoped will be regular supplements, identifying material not included in the original compilation. The majority of the following items were published in the 1990s, but some earlier references, missed in the published volume, have now been identified and are included. Any additional references from readers will be very welcome.The arrangement follows that of the original work, and references are to numbered items in that work.Guides, collections and ancillary materials to African archival resources in the United States, comp. J.B. Howell & Y. Scheven, (Electronic journal of Africana bibliography, no.l). URL: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/proj/ejab/index.html. (A most important source of information on ‘guides to the archives of Africa’ (Preface) but including also guides to African-related archives in Europe.
Application of Information Technology (IT) In the Management of Court Records in the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Authors: Abioye Abiola 
Published: April 2022

AbstractInformation technology (IT) being crucial to the management of records in all sectors, the study investigated the level of awareness and application of IT to court records management in the Supreme Court of Nigeria. It examined the facilities available, use, constraints and prospects. The research instruments adopted for data collection were interview and observation. The results showed that there is high level of awareness of the importance of IT. The technology is used mainly for record creation and distribution. Constraints include poor funding and lack of well-trained staff in the use of IT for records management. The study concluded and made necessary recommendations for the improved use of IT for court record management in the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
The Royal Commonwealth Society
Authors: Barringer T.A. 
Published: April 2022

The Royal Commonwealth Society (previously known successively as the Colonial Society, the Royal Colonial Institute and the Royal Empire Society and now linked with the Victoria League in Commonwealth Trust), was founded in 1868 and from its early days has maintained a library which now consists of 250,000¢ items, classified geographically; a substantial proportion of this is concerned with Africa. The small library of the Royal African Society was embodied in it in 1949. Subjects covered include all but purely technical ones, ranging from history, geography and politics to art, literature and natural history.The literature of exploration and discovery is particualarly extensive and there are original editions of nearly all the significant books in this field. The Library is also strong in general accounts of voyages and travels, collected voyages, and the publications of the major relevant societies; much material on Africa appears in this form.