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Method and Purpose in Africana Bibliography
Authors: Harris Gordon 
Published: April 2022

Why produce bibliographical tools which deal solely with Africa? Some might say that it is passe, or even absurd, to separate Africa from the rest of the world in this way.But there are several reasons why such bibliographical activity should continue. Firstly, Africana bibliography caters directly for the large community all over the world which studies Africa, namely the Africanist community. Secondly, if a bibliography is confined to Africa, it can afford to be a bibliography in depth. It can afford its own structure and its own classification scheme. A general bibliography or general index can never give the depth or sensitivity that is possible with a completely Africanist bibliography or index. General indexes are bound to be subject-orientated, but an Africanist index provides a list of interdisciplinary references if it has a geographical layout—so important in these days of area studies.
Arabic Documentation in Darfur
Authors: O'Fahey R. S. 
Published: April 2022

One major obstacle to the study of Sudanese history before the Mahdist period (1885—1898) has been the seeming lack of any substantial documentation of local origin; nowhere was this more so than in Darfur. But it is now becoming apparent that, contrary to previous assumptions, Darfur and probably also Kordofan are very rich in Arabic documents, preserved as family archives, dating from the pre-Mahdist period.As part of a continuing programme of research on the history of the Darfur Sultanate (c. 1650—1916), I recently visited Darfur on a trip financed by the Norwegian Research Council and sponsored by the Central Records Office (CRO), Khartoum, who kindly arranged for Sayyid Ahmad Ibrahim Uthman of the CRO to accompany me.During a period of six weeks spent in the Al-Fashir region i.e. around the province capital, a total of over 200 documents from the Darfur Sultans and their officials, and some from Mahdist officials, were located and photographed.
Cataloguing Policies and Problems in Kenyan Libraries
Authors: Thairu R.W. 
Published: April 2022

What is presented here is not based on field research as would ideally have been the case but is based on personal observations supplemented with what is in the literature.Discussion will be related to the basic role of library and information services for national development in recognition of the fact that these services are central to national development, particularly in the non-industrialised countries otherwise generally referred to as developing countries. This was the central theme of the 1984 IFLA Conference in Nairobi The paper discusses two aspects of a practice in library and information services, a practice that enhances the effectiveness of the services in question. In the context of this paper, cataloguing is described as the process through which sources of information in a collection are described in order to facilitate their recall.
Computerized datasearching for the African scholar
Authors: Shayne Mette 
Published: April 2022

This article will give some insight into problems and advantages of computerized literature searches for the African scholar. I should point out that there are two types of databases, the reference databases which point users to another source, i.e., give the user bibliographic information. Those are the ones I will deal with here. The source databases contain original information or manipulated statistics prepared for specific purposes. I intend to point out areas where a computerized literature search is useful, and areas where there are pitfalls. My experience is that graduate students rarely are familiar with the bibliographic or data sources available to them.Two different methodologies have been described in the professional literature oh determining the value of certain databases.
Sir Roy Welensky and his archives (Part 2)
Authors: Hargrave J.F. 
Published: April 2022

So to the catalogue in detail. It is divided into seven parts, topped and tailed by 25pp. of introductory matter and 107pp. of index of personal names and principal subjects.Part 1 contains the bulk of the pre-Federation material. It runs to 103 boxes of which the first nine cover Welensky as Director of Manpower, the Northern Rhodesian Executive Council (mainly commuting death sentences imposed on murderers - or not), the Legislative Council and its committees and the Unofficial Members’ Association and the Liaison Office. Twenty boxes house material relating to boards and committees with which Welensky was involved: Rhodesia Railways (the Board and the Higher Authority), Chilanga Cement Works (a project of the Northern Rhodesian authorities in conjunction with the Colonial Development Corporation; references to a cement pool seem to be to collusive marketing arrangements rather than swimming or the mafia) and the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (1953) at Bulawayo.
“Sorry: no free reading’
Authors: Staunton Irene 
Published: April 2022

Following Zimbabwe's Independence in 1980, the Government immediately set about rectifying the inherited inequities in the education system. Free access was given to primary education, and enrolment rose from 820,000 to 2.3 million a decade later. Advances at secondary level were even more dramatic: enrolment increased more than tenfold, to over 700,000 in 1990.There were many logistical problems to be overcome in order to cater for this huge increase in the number of students: buildings, trained teachers, equipment, books and, of course, the financing of this expansion. I shall only focus on books since it is these which we are discussing today.
Documentation on women: possible strategies for networking in Lesotho
Authors: Chadzingwa M.M. Tsidi 
Published: April 2022

The objective of this paper is to survey what type of information and documentation on women exists in Lesotho; to examine where and how it is accumulated, disseminated and used; to assess the strengths and weaknesses of those methods in practise, and then to determine strategies on how an adequate documentation system may be developed and be fitted into the existing national, regional and international documentation infrastructure.It will be noted that the beginning of the UN Decade for Women in 1975 marks the point of departure for this survey. The period is so marked because it prominently opened a debate on women issues; it stimulated research and gave birth to various associations/organisations, all of which generated massive literature as well as introducing vigorous communication on the subject.
A Literature review of written materials on legal deposit laws for Nigerian libraries since 1950
Authors: Erinle E.K. 
Published: April 2022

In this paper the author has attempted a review of related literature in three main areas, namely, the importance of legal deposit laws for Nigerian libraries; legal deposit as a special means for collection development for depository libraries and collection strategy problems in depository libraries.Much has been written about Nigerian library laws since the first legislation was enacted in 1950. “By virtue of Section 3(1) of the publication ordinance 1950, the University of Ibadan Library became one of the two legal depositories for Nigerian publications”. The second depository library at the time was the Secretariat Office, Lagos. The legal force behind deposit was defined by Agidee in his important 1970 article on Library Laws 1948-68: “Laws or legislations are rules made by a state or community for establishment and operation of an institution and that such rules or regulations become binding on the members of the state or community”.
African Studies in Schools - Can the Universities Help?
Authors: Rogers Peter 
Published: April 2022

Interaction between University African Studies Departments and African Studies in schools has never been more necessary than at the present time. The current standing of African Studies in the UK is largely a1 monument to the enterprising young academics of the 1950s and 60s who, fired with an enthusiasm born in the heady days of African Independence Movements and decolonisation, risked their academic careers on Africa. They challenged the academic establishments of universities in this country, and to an amazing extent secured funding to establish specialist centres which then proceeded to justify themselves by an explosion of new ideas about Africa.But the passage of time takes its toll and at the last ASAUK conference I was very conscious of this.
African Studies and the Education of the Public
Authors: Bown Lalage 
Published: April 2022

If anyone asks us why we believe more citizens of Britain should have their awareness of Africa increased, what do we answer? Or do we simply say that African Studies is a good intellectual discipline, with no more immediate practical relevance than Latin or Astronomy?My own belief is that we need a rationale if we are to move into greater activity in the dissemination of knowledge about Africa among the community, and that there are valid rationales to hand. For one, Britain has important economic relationships with various parts of the African continent (Nigeria now being a major trading partner of this country, for instance). For another, even if we don't see Brandt as a full or satisfactory statement, its analysis does underline the complex inter-relationship between us and the Third World. For a third, “what do tney know of England who only England know?” - i.e. it's necessary to understand other cultures in order to become conscious of one's own. For a fourth, the study of Africa is exciting in itself.
African Documentation in the Netherlands, and Possibilities for European Cooperation: The Library and Documentation Department of the Africa-Studiecentrum, Leiden
Authors: van Doorn Marlene C.A. 
Published: April 2022

This article will provide brief background information about the Afrika-Studiecentrum, its origins, aims, organisational structure and research activities, followed by a more detailed description of the library and documentation department The origins, contents, arrangement, coverage and distribution of the quarterly abstracts journal, Documentatieblad are explained, and are followed by a look at possibilities for European cooperation.The Afrika-Studiecentrum began as the Leiden branch of the Rotterdam-based Afrika-Instituut, a commercially-oriented institute formally established in 1946 with the aim of promoting Dutch trade with Africa. In 1957 it split off from the parent institution and became an independent foundation, the present Afrika-Studiecentrum. Since then, it has grown from a relatively small documentation centre with a staff barely exceeding 10, to a relatively large interuniversity institute with a staff of around 40.
The Documentation of African Research
Authors: Binns Margaret 
Published: April 2022

The role of the International African Institute is to facilitate and promote communication between African scholars working within Africa and between these scholars and Africanists outside the continentOne of the major problems facing African scholars is their lack of access to current books and journals published outside the continent (or even in an African country other than their own). Increasingly they feel they are being marginalised from the mainstream of current debate, unable to participate effectively in international conferences and seminars, reluctant to submit articles for publication in international journals. The Institute has been active in initiating and promoting schemes which attempt to address this problem.
The challenges of African film bibliography: content and audience
Authors: Schmidt Nancy J. 
Published: April 2022

The focus of my discussion will be on Sub-Saharan Africa, since this has been the scope of my work. I will discuss issues related to compiling bibliographies and filrhographies in the past and present – from the 1960s to 1990s. The focus will be on a few of the major challenges which I often think about, but do not know how to resolve.What is a Sub-Saharan African film, and who is a Sub-Saharan African filmmaker? There is no more agreement on a definition of African film than of a definition of African literature. However, there is much less discussion of definitions of African film than of African literature.Bibliographies and filmographies are compiled and many generalizations are made about African film without definitions being provided. Compilers and authors seem to assume that others understand their point of reference.
Mammals of Africa: 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 was concerned with sources relating to the birds of Africa (see ARD, 75, 1997, 12-38); the present article covers African mammals.In the zoological context, ‘reference material’ is defined as works which can be used to identify mammal species and their distribution within Africa, and to find information on their habits and behaviour. The major categories are: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.).
The Inter-Agency Material Production Committee (IAMPC), Botswana
Authors: Dintwe Motumi M. , Badisang Bobana E. 
Published: April 2022

This paper will focus on the development of the Inter-Agency Material Production Committee, its objectives, terms of reference and their evolution. An assessment on whether the Committee has achieved what it initially set out to achieve will be made.The idea of forming the IAMPC was conceived at a conference on Libraries and Literacy held in Kanye in 1985. The actual launching of the Committee was done three years later in 1988. The Committee, a joint venture between the Botswana National Library Service (BNLS) and the Department of Non-Formal Education (DNFE) comprised officers of the two departments and other extension departments and NGOs. 30 institutions were represented initially.The two departments, BNLS and DNFE, were already cooperating in the provision of the Village Reading Rooms Service (VRRs), another joint venture which has been operational since 1986. These are cultural centres set up in primary school classrooms for local rural communities in smaller and remote villages where there are no library facilities.
The location of Colonial Staff and Civil Service Lists in British libraries: a preliminary checklist
Authors: Kirk-Greene A.H.M. 
Published: April 2022

In an extensive survey of the published sources available for research into the biographical data of members of the British Colonial Service and its successor (1954), HM Overseas Civil Service (‘Colonial Service biographical data: the published sources’, ARD 46, 1988, 1-16), I identified five principal serial publications beyond such general but limited reference works as Who was who. Dictionary of national biography, The Times and Daily Telegraph obituaries, and my Biographical dictionary of the British colonial governor: 1, Africa (1980). These were:i.The Colonial Office Lists, 1862-1966ii.The Colonial Service Lists, 1933-1939iii.Territorial Staff Listsiv.Territorial Civil Service Listsv.Colonial Blue Books
The experience of the Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho in publishing, marketing and distributing internationally
Authors: Nyeko Janet A. 
Published: April 2022

How does an academic publisher identify and reach its intended market? This is especially important when, because of the nature of the publications and a small national market (one university), most of the publications are sold to or exchanged with institutions in northern Europe and America. Also, most of the research, out of which the publications originate, is funded by donor agencies in those countries. The aim of this paper is to discuss how the Institute of Southern African Studies (ISAS) markets and distributes its publications, especially to the developed North. To do so it is necessary to describe briefly how ISAS operates, its publications’ objectives and the clienteles it aims to serve. It is also necessary to assess the marketing strategy.The Institute of Southern African Studies was established in 1979 to be the research centre of the National University of Lesotho. Its main aim is to promote and coordinate. research on a variety of issues. However, the emphasis is on policy-related and development-oriented research on Southern Africa, and Lesotho in particular.
Africa in the Public Records
Authors: Banton Mandy 
Published: April 2022

To attempt a discussion of ‘sources for African history in the Public Record Office’ immediately raises the question, ‘are there such sources?’. Or are there only sources for the history of the British encounter with Africa, or, indeed, as some would claim, the English encounter with Africa?The editor and compilers of the 1971Guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to Africamay have such questions in mind when they chose to use the title ‘documentsrelatingto Africa’ rather than perhaps, ‘sources for the history of Africa’. In this volume you will find, in the section devoted to the Public Record Office, twenty-two closely printed pages listing in the region of one thousand record classes.
The Special Collection on Publishing in Africa at Oxford Brookes University, Part 2
Authors: Cole Geoff 
Published: April 2022

In a previous issue ofARDmy colleague Paul Richardson provided an introduction to the establishment of The Paul Hamlyn Foundation/Code Europe Special Collection on Publishing in Africa in the Library at Oxford Brookes University. Paul writes from the perspective of an academic and a publisher and brings these particular insights to the collection. I write as a librarian and would like to discuss the establishment of the collection from that perspective.Several events during the last year have given me an insight into the potential of a collection like this.At the London International Book Fair in March 1998 the Southern African Book Development Education Trust organised a series of seminars under the title of ‘Publishing for Children in Africa’. Speaker after speaker spoke about the potential for development and the urgent need for support of the publishing industry in that continent.
Accidental Archives: Tracing Africa in the India Office Private Papers in the British Library
Authors: Wallace Marion 
Published: April 2022

This article deals with the British Library's collections on Africa, and especially with its collection of private papers of India Office officials (with a particular focus on the twentieth century). The choice of India-related collections may seem surprising, but in fact these records contain much that is relevant to African history.In this article I am concerned not only to describe what is held at the British Library, but to discuss the historical construction of these collections. That is, how factors that might be thought mundane and pedestrian - decisions about the selection or destruction of records, and their preservation and arrangement - affect both the nature of archival holdings and the scholarship built upon them.
The Archives of the Royal Geographical Society
Authors: Kelly C. 
Published: April 2022

The archives of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) can be of use to anyone interested in European travellers in Nigeria. The quantity of records is small and there are no large deposits of the papers of important political figures, yet almost all the well known travellers of the 19th and early 20th century are represented there in some way. From its foundation in 1830 the RGS has generated records and correspondence through its own activities and those of its Fellows. In addition the Society has been the recipient of manuscripts, letters, diaries and field notes of those who have felt the RGS to be a suitable home for records of their independent travel or geographical enquiry.Documents of the 19th century relating to Nigeria reflect, at first, the enthusiasm felt by the government and by the RGS to see the course of the river Niger and its tributaries accurately mapped.
Nigerian and other African archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Authors: Hepper F. Nigel 
Published: April 2022

Most people know Kew only as a public garden with very special greenhouses and other buildings. Few visitors realise that it is a scientific institution with research laboratories, a great herbarium and archives of all descriptions. In the context of this symposium the living collections in the Gardens are unlikely to be applicable as an archive, although there are many specimens of great historical interest, including the world's oldest greenhouse plant (Encephalartos Iongifolius) which is an African species brought from Natal by Mason in the 1770s.Over five million dried specimens are housed here in systematic order. They have been received from collectors all over the world during the last two centuries. The Herbarium is especially rich in tropical African collections, including Nigerian. For example those from Theodor Vogel's Niger Expedition of 1841 formed the basis of Hooker's Niger Flora (1849).
Nigeriana in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library
Authors: Cousins M. 
Published: April 2022

“God did not make Nigeria. The British did” is a remark attributed to a principal chief of Lagos, of the Royal House of Addo. Whether the attribution is correct I cannot say, but the political and geographical entity that we now know as Nigeria was most certainly a creation of the European scramble for Africa in the nineteenth century, and it was indeed the British who coined the name Nigeria itself.As the Secretary of State for the Colonies was the Minister charged with the duty of advice to the Crown on matters relating to Britain's overseas dependencies, the library of the Colonial Office (CO) naturally reflected these wideranging official concerns and developed into what Sir Charles Jeffries described as “a unique and comprehensive collection… an institution of which the Office is justly proud”.
National Bibliography in Ghana
Authors: Sam Joel 
Published: April 2022

Various governments of Ghana have, at least on paper, shown recognition of the need for a national library, which will undertake as one of its principal responsibilities the preparation of the national bibliography. In January 1963, for example, the Ministry of Education set up a Technical Advisory Committee to advise on the need for a national library. The Committee had several sittings and it did succeed in submitting proposals to obtain some financial support if not for the building of a national library then, at least, for developing some of its functions, including the publication of retrospective and current national bibliographies.Earlier in 1961, the George Padmore Research Library on African Affairs (GPRLAA) had been established by Dr Kwame Nkrumah, former President of Ghana, in memory of his friend, the late George Padmore, with the objective of providing a centre for the study of African affairs in Ghana.