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West African archives at the Main Library, University of Birmingham
Authors: French T. 
Published: April 2022

Collections of African material at the University of Birmingham in part reflect links with Cadbury's whose gifts of land helped to establish the University on its Edgbaston site, and whose involvement in the early West African cocoa track is well-known; the Library's collections of Africana have however been particularly developed over the last thirty years or so, since the establishment of the Centre of West African Studies here in 1963. All relevant library and archive materials are kept in the Main Library not at the Centre.The most notable archive is that of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which is on deposit at the University Library. This archive is in three sections: early papers up to 1880; 1881-1934; and 1935-49. Later material has been retained at CMS. The archives cover many African countries, including Nigeria, and all other countries in which the CMS has worked.
Nigerian Natural History Archives, Linnean Society of London
Authors: Douglas G. 
Published: April 2022

The Society's manuscript holdings date back to those of Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) and among those of his pupils, Thunberg, Sparrman, Solander, and Osbeck all travelled down the West Coast of Africa en route to India, the Far East and Australia. Afzelius was the only one to explore the natural history of West Africa, landing in Sierra Leone, but there is no known material recorded from Guinea. The only specific reference in the Linnaean archives is an undated hand-written note with a description of a monkey “…ex Costa Guinea”.The Society was founded in 1788 and holds the papers of its precursor: the Society for the promotion of Natural History. These include an account of the Harmattan by Henry Smeathmam. His account of the Tarantula is among the Linnean Society papers, but both probably refer to Sierra Leone where Smeathmam collected.
Birds of Africa: A Guide to Reference Material
Authors: McIlwaine John 
Published: April 2022

In my Africa: a guide to reference material (London, Hans Zell, 1993), works relating to the biological sciences were deliberately excluded. In order to fill a part of this gap, I am hoping to produce a series of lists of major reference sources relating to African flora and fauna. The first listing is concerned with sources relating to the ornithology of Africa.In the ornithological context, ‘reference material’ has been deemed to comprise the following major categories:taxonomic checklists which attempt to establish complete listings of scientific and popular names for all species known to have occurred within a particular region (zoogeographical, regional, national, a particular game park, etc.). These need to be updated regularly both as knowledge of bird distribution increases, and as taxonomists make new decisions regarding bird relationships, with consequent changes in scientific names. Local decisions in the latter area naturally reflect world decisions, and so some of the standard world lists are also cited. Standard lists of popular names in English, other European languages and African languages are also required.
Imaginative Knowledge: Scottish Readers and Nigerian Fictions
Authors: Smith Andrew 
Published: April 2022

I must admit that my initial reaction on seeing the book was a sinking feeling. I felt that of all the books chosen that was the one I really had no inclination whatsoever to read. It may sound insular, but I am not interested in Africa.This paper is based upon the responses of a group of Scottish readers to Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart (1958). For almost all of the readers this represented their first encounter with African fiction. As the preceding quotation makes clear, it was not one that they had solicited and for some at least, it was not one that they relished.The encounter came about as part of a pre-access course taught under the auspices of the Adult Education Department of Glasgow University. The course ran on two occasions in Stranraer and on one occasion in the Gorbals, a residential area on the south side of the Clyde.
National Libraries in Africa: Roles and Challenges
Authors: Alemna Anaba 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThis paper attempts to discuss the concept of national libraries and the state-of-the-art in Africa. The role of national libraries and the challenges facing them are also analysed. It has been found out for example, that a majority of national libraries in Africa are found in the French-speaking countries. Other libraries such as public and university libraries are performing this role in the English-speaking countries. It is argued that although there is no alternative to a national library, African countries should make adaptations to suit their circumstances.
Travels with Helen
Authors: Helly Dorothy O. 
Published: April 2022

When Helen Callaway and I began our travels in search of Flora Shaw, our very first encounter was with a man who threatened to set his dogs on us. We carried on, however, for our model was Flora Shaw, herself an adventurous traveller as well as the highly influential Colonial Editor for The Times in the 1890s. Like Flora Shaw, Helen was also a widely travelled woman of high spirits.Before I talk about my “Travels with Helen,” I want to thank Maria Jaschok, director of the International Gender Studies Centre (aka Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women) for inviting me to give this talk and to thank all the members of the Centre for their warm hospitality to me for over twenty years. This has been my Oxford “home.”
Viewing Cotonou From a Helicopter
Authors: McBean Bridget 
Published: April 2022

Finding the most worthwhile information for one's purpose today is no easy task. An array of information providers has exploded. The Internet, twentyfour hour television channels, numerous magazines and journals provide facts and opinion. But which source is more credible? How can one formulate one's own opinion or position, especially when working with nuanced or topical subjects? It is believed that specialised research requires a different approach to accurate information gathering.The role of information managers and providers is paramount. They have the ability to search and structure interesting resources for use of a range of users. This paper maps some of the principle sources of information about the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, including the core texts such as the Agreement, and also sources supplying analysis; facts and comments on the content, process and progress of the Agreement.
Book Aid International: 50 Years of Sharing Information (1954-2004)
Authors: Temu Williams Nelly , Coll Sandrine 
Published: April 2022

2004 marks the 50th anniversary of Book Aid International (BAI), the major UK support for libraries in sub-Saharan Africa.Since 1954, BAI has reached out to readers in some of the world's poorest countries, creating learning opportunities for millions of adults and children. Book Aid International's work demonstrates the power of books in making a significant practical difference to improve people's lives. The charity provides short-term solutions to crisis situations - sending out English language books to help fight illiteracy. Book Aid International is equally committed to longer-term, sustainable solutions and works with communities worldwide to build up local publishing and bookselling projects.One of the biggest challenges facing BAI now is ensuring that adequate resources are supplied to keep up with the huge expansion in education that is taking place around the world.
African studies in Russia (with special reference to the Institute of African Studies, Moscow)
Authors: Shubin Vladimir 
Published: April 2022

The history of African Studies in Russia goes back to the 19th century. Traditionally two fields were most developed - Egyptology and Ethiopian Studies. Several Russian explorers travelled to East Africa and the Horn of Africa at the end of that century. After the 1917 revolution, more attention was paid to the anti-colonial struggle of the African peoples and the workers’ movement.The first centres of African Studies were created in the early 1930s in Moscow as an African cabinet in the short-lived Scientific Research Association for the Study of National and Colonial Problems and die African Section of the so-called Communist University of the Toiling Peoples of the East. In 1945 the Department of African Languages was founded at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University, followed by the African Section in the Institute of Ethnography and the African Department in the Institute for Oriental Studies.
British influence on the education of librarians in Anglophone Africa
Authors: Aina L.O. , Serema B.C. 
Published: April 2022

Librarianship is a relatively new profession in Africa. It is certainly less than 100 years old. Most of the countries in Africa, having being colonised by the British and the French, imported librarianship into the continent wholesale from their colonial masters. For Anglophone Africans, their first contact with librarianship was when British officials set up libraries in the various colonies. To a large, extent, librarianship, can be said to be alien to the culture of Anglophone Africans. However, the role of a library in the development of a nation was quickly, recognised by the peoples of Anglophone Africa and libraries were warmly received when they were established.As early as 1908, a medical library was established in the then Gold Coast, now Ghana, and a geology library was set up in Nigeria in 1919 (Akinyotu, 1972). According to Ogunsheye (1970) the Tom Jones library in Nigeria was founded between 1910 and 1920.
The Long Garden Master: Charles Lynn, Agricultural Officer in the Gold Coast
Authors: Lynn-Meaden Sylvia 
Published: April 2022

In 1968, while redecorating my grandmother's flat, I came across an old battered brown suitcase containing the letters my father had written to her from the Gold Coast. I had lived in Tamale as a three year old child, and our closest family friends were from that period of my father's life. So I grew up with the stories and affection for Tamale - my first home - and a place called Zuarungu. In later life I encouraged my father to write his memoirs, reminding him of half remembered stories and encouraging him to dig deep into his memory. We discussed shaping these memoirs into book form, but he died in 1985 leaving me to finish the task.My somewhat unorthodox idea was to make it an edited autobiography of his early life, by integrating interesting letters into the text, and further illuminate it with detailed footnotes added by myself.
A Guide to Africanist Research in the Archive of the American Baptist Historical Society
Authors: Covington-Ward Yolanda 
Published: April 2022

Africanist scholars seeking archives on Africa and Africans often travel back to the continent to conduct research, or more commonly, to the various repositories of former colonial powers in Western Europe to find their information. However, there are some archives located in the United States that, although they are not dedicated exclusively to Africanist materials, contain an array of resources relevant to Africanist research. One such archive is that of the American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS).The American Baptist Historical Society was founded in 1853, and, according to a conversation with Communications and Reading Specialist Betsy Dunbar, contains many records “by, about, for, and against Baptists.”
A Half Century of Abstracting at the African Studies Centre Leiden
Authors: van Doom Marlene C.A. 
Published: April 2022

Since 1968 the African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, The Netherlands, has published an abstracts journal, first under the titleDocumentatieblad(1968-1993), subsequently renamedAfrican Studies Abstracts.In 2003African Studies Abstractswent online. RenamedAfrican Studies Abstracts Online,it also appeared in a limited print edition, principally for distribution in Africa where Internet connectivity was often problematic. However as the ICT infrastructure in African countries developed, the print edition was increasingly seen as having outlived its usefulness. The last paper copy ofAfrican Studies Abstracts Online,number 37, appeared in February 2012.In the years since 1968 the abstracts journal has undergone a number of changes, not only in name and appearance, but also in frequency of publication and coverage, number of abstracts and types of indexes, and price. More fundamental changes are expected in the near future.
De L’Edition Camerounaise Au Marche International Du Livre
Authors: Thierry Raphaël 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThis article considers the challenges and opportunities for African publishing in an age of ‘book globalisation’, dominated by large multinational firms based in Europe and North America since the 1980s. ‘Bibliodiversity’ is desirable. Different kinds of networks have been structured for the African book market to sustain diffusion and distribution. It is important to take account of the institutions, economic factors and authors’ strategies which lie behind a given book. The first part of this article considers the relations between African literary production and the global book market. The second considers the Cameroonian book market and globalisation.
Management Perceptions of Internet-Based Banking Services in Nigerian Commercial Banks
Authors: Popoola S.O. , Haliso Yacob 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThis study investigates management perceptions of internet-based banking services with special references to commercial banks in Nigeria. There was a significant difference between male and female management perceptions of internet-based banking services; management had significant positive rather than negative perception of Internet-based banking services; there was a significant difference between strategic and tactical management perceptions of Internet-based banking services. Gender age, work experience, management cadre and computer experience/training strongly influenced the management perceptions of Internet-based banking services in the Nigerian commercial banking system. Suggestions are proffered on how to further enhance management's positive perceptions of the Internet-based banking services in Nigerian commercial banks.
Perceived influence of academic qualifications, gender, religious affiliation and ethnic sentiment on mentoring practices in selected University Libraries in Nigeria
Authors: Haliso Yacob , Onuoha Uloma Doris 
Published: April 2022

Mentoring as a concept has been in existence throughout the centuries. For instance, Socrates mentored Plato, Plato mentored Aristotle, and Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great. The Holy Bible is also full of information about mentoring practices. For example, Elijah mentored Elisha; Jesus Christ mentored His disciples and Paul did the same to Timothy. Mentoring is a sustained relationship between a youth (one who is professionally young) and an adult (experienced professional). This is achieved through a sustained involvement. In this case a more advanced and experienced librarian offers support, guidance, and assistance as the younger professional (librarian), goes through a difficult time, faces new challenges or works to correct earlier problems.Nigeria with an estimated population of over 140 million is a vast country and the giant of Africa. There are three major ethnic groups (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) and over 250 minor ethnic groups.
Building a web based Agricultural Information Gateway using a participatory approach – a case study from Zambia and Zimbabwe
Authors: Chivhanga Batsirai Mike 
Published: April 2022

AbstractThis paper will look at how ICTs, in particular Internet technologies, can be used to contribute to change in Africa with a focus on developments in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The article will look at the role of Internet and wireless technologies to solve some of Africa's information and communication problems. A case study is cited that looks at building a gateway to Web based agricultural information in the COMESA (Common Market for East and Southern Africa) and SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) Sub-Regions.
Free Access to Scientific Publications for Developing Countries: the Research Archive of the French National Research Institute For Sustainable Development (IRD)
Authors: Rossi Pier Liugi 
Published: April 2022

The IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) is a French research institute serving the Mediterranean and intertropical countries that make science and innovation one of the first levers of their development. It is a French public science and technology establishment (EPST) which is under the dual supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.The Decree of 1 December 1955 (ORSTOM 1955) organising the services of the Office for Scientific and Technical Research Overseas, published in the Official Journal of the French Republic of 21 December 1955, defines the existence of a documentation centre under the direction of the Institute. Article 6 of the decree states that “le Centre de documentation est charge1 d'assurer le depouillement, la conservation et la diffusion de la documentation scientifique et technique se rapportant aux activitfe de 1'O.R.S.T.O.M.”.
South African Literary Archives after the ‘Archival Turn’: a Case Study of the Guy Butler collection at the National English Literary Museum
Authors: Wyrill Beth 
Published: April 2022

This article seeks to investigate the largest collection of literary artefacts in South Africa, housed at the National English Literary Museum, and particularly the relationship between the founder of the museum and archive, Guy Butler, and how NELM has come to operate in the South African literary landscape in a post-colonial and post-apartheid moment. It is necessary to invoke the post-colonial moment from the outset in order to explore the question of post-colonial archives from a critical perspective.This research is informed by what has come to be known as the ‘archival turn,’ which considers the ‘meta-text’ of archival formation. The work investigates the locations of power and regularities of logic that have informed the collection of certain items and histories, and the neglect of others.
Part II: Le Don de Livre, Mais À Quel Prix, et en Échange de Quoi? un Regard Sur le Don de Livre en Afrique Francophone
Authors: Thierry Raphaël 
Published: April 2022

La diversité éditoriale se conçoit parfois de façon binaire: d'un côté, les pays qui ont les moyens de produire des ouvrages, de l'autre ceux qui en manquent. On pourrait presque reformuler cette phrase par ‘les pays qui sont en mesure de donner des livres à ceux qui en demandent’. Mais ceci concerne la surface, la partie émergée d'un iceberg éditorial, en quelque sorte. Derrière l'image de pays en déficit de ressources éditées, il y a une infinité de fils, une vaste ramification de problématiques qui concernent l'imbrication de champs symboliques, économiques et politiques. Et au croisement de tous ces fils, il y a le livre, gratuit ou non.Pour rappel, dans un marché international du livre de plus en plus globalisé il est commun de prendre les statistiques comme témoins des réalités. Ceci en facilite la compréhension. Prenons par exemple la Francophonie: à elle seule, la France y représente une production moyenne d'environ 70 000 nouveaux titres par an.
Some highlights of Jewish Africana
Authors: Musiker Reuben 
Published: April 2022

AbstractAlthough the Jewish Community in South Africa has always been a small but nevertheless significant minority, it has featured prominently in the country's history. This paper sets out to highlight some of the most important events and developments in the community's local history, culturally, historically and politically. The various events and perspectives are mirrored through the vital documentation of the time, including the following premier examples: the struggle to obtain recognition for Yiddish as a language, the fight against anti-Semitism in the 1930s (the Grey Shirt movement and apartheid in more recent times), hurdles in regard to the immigration of Jews from Europe (especially refugees), the contribution of Jews to the development of the South African economy, commerce, law, literature and medicine.
"There Came A Darkness": Keynote Address
Authors: Paice Edward 
Published: April 2022

I am honoured to have been asked to give the keynote speech at this year's SCOLMA conference, especially so for two reasons. Firstly, Terry Barringer, John Pinfold, Mandy Banton, Lucy McCann and others connected with SCOLMA were an invaluable source of assistance and advice when I was researching Tip & Run - The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa. Secondly, if I am honest I feel like a bit of a ‘has been’: Tip & Run was published almost a decade ago and since then scholarship in the field has flourished. The evidence is before us today, with papers on a wide range of new topics to do with World War 1 in Africa.Since the millennium interest in the Africa campaigns has grown exponentially across a broad front. Knowledge has been advanced by academic and popular historians, medal collectors, descendants of combatants, military associations.
Duty to Empire? South Africa's Invasion of German South West Africa, 1914-1918
Authors: Samson Anne 
Published: April 2022

Before war broke out in August 1914, the Union of South Africa had determined to include the German colony of South West Africa in the Union fold if ever an opportunity arose. So, when Britain went to war on 4 August 1914, the British War Cabinet request that South Africa put the German wireless stations in the South West African territory out of action was likely to be met with favourable response. It was, but not by all as this paper will set out.In 1914, South Africa as a country was only four years old and was still trying to heal the wounds caused by the Anglo-Boer or South African War of 1899-1902. The Union Defence Force (UDF) was even younger, having been approved in 1912. Where the Union had already had a number of years to develop, the UDF was in effect starting from zero.
African Studies in the UK: measuring what we have achieved in the past 50 years
Authors: Kirk-Greene Anthony 
Published: April 2022

This article does not attempt to give a full answer to the question of what has been achieved in African Studies. It does attempt to give a preliminary checklist of measurement indices which might be helpful especially as the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) approaches its half century in 2013.ASAUK was founded in 1963, on the initiative of Professors Roland Oliver and John Fage, who went on to organise its first conference in 1964. Appropriately this was held at the University of Birmingham, where Fage had been appointed to direct a new (1962) Centre of West African Studies. Identifying Birmingham as the first Africa-dedicated centre in the UK must not be allowed to mask the pioneering role of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) which however, though founded in 1916, did not add Africa to its title until 1938.