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🇬🇼Amílcar Cabral, the famed revolutionary leader of the people of Guinea-Bissau & the Cape Verde Islands, lives on!
Celebrate Cabral's centenary with this extraordinary book display put together by our MPhil, Neo, on in the Library to January 17th.
Click the🔗 in bio for more!
ALT Neo, Cabral book display curator, posing with the display in the sunshine - come see it in the Library until 17th January 2025.
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🎙️NEW: Is democracy declining?
Crossing Channels guest, David Runciman, sees democracy as unravelling not collapsing. Kristin Michelitch examines challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, while Ahmed Mohamed explores cultural factors in the MENA region.
🎧 pod.fo/e/28a279
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Wohooo! Check out our conversation with @AfricainWords and learn how SCOLMA can help you broaden your network.
Thank you again to all who made the #SCOLMA2024SS a fruitful endeavour, we look forward to seeing you at our conference next year in June!
22 Nov 2024
📢New! 'Words on...Q&A' with @Scolma.
Committee members talk about the significance of conversations coming out of their 2024 seminar series 'African Studies in the Digital Age’ (ft. familiar faces!), plus their 2025 Conference CFP, & more on how to join:
africainwords.com/2024/11/22…
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Ever used a thesis or dissertation as part of your research? If not, you probably will at some point in your academic career.
We recently moved our 100 unpublished theses collection to our archive. Ask us about how they might improve your research!
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14 Nov 2024
We were pleased to welcome @moritzmihatsch and the MPhil World History cohort @CamHistory to @theUL today to view material from the World Collections Dept. Thanks to all involved!
ALT A display of books from the African Studies Library
ALT Periodicals from the African Studies Library
ALT Guandong hai fung hui lan: a compiled view of the maritime defence of Guangdong from the Wade collection
ALT Newspapers from the South Asian Studies Library
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We are so excited for this!! Come hear about what the future of African Studies can look like at Cambridge 🌍
🚨 Join us for our Keynote Lecture: African Collections Futures report launch!🥳
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏲️ 6-7pm lecture followed by drinks
🗺️ Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/ccc-keynote…
#AFRICAN #collections #research
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📚Pleased to announce we have a brand new collection available for consultation - Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière donated his Southern African Bibliographies from @WitsUniversity (Jo-burg) c. 1965-72 to us earlier this spring.
🔗Click the link in our bio to view the collection aid!
ALT 13 bibliographies spread over the main desk in the african studies library
ALT mzilikazi 1790-1868 bibliography cover
ALT race relations in south africa bibliography cover
ALT lesotho bibliography cover
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African Studies Library - Cambridge University retweeted
5 Nov 2024
'Assembling Shaolin in Zambia: African trainees programme, cultural heritage, and philanthropy'
A presentation by Hangwei Li (German Institute of Development and Sustainability)
A hybrid event by the Frontiers of Faith network on 7 November at 2pm
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/4377…
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👋 Hey Jenni!
@AfrStudiesLib's trusty captain spoke as part of the 2024 @Scolma Seminar Series this past March - watch the full video discussing dispersed African Studies collections on YouTube!
3⃣ Our 3rd Seminar from the #SCOLMA2024SS is now live on YouTube, titled "Digital (Re)Connections and Dispersed Collections".
How have you worked with dispersed collections?
🔔Remember to subscribe to our channel to be notified as soon as # 4⃣ drops!
youtu.be/qCCLKmCsq98?si=0MIj…
ALT YouTube Launch - SCOLMA Digital (Re)Connections and Dispersed Collections - Speaker images on a blue background - click the link to watch the full video and become a SCOLMA member, explore the benefits, and support our work: https://scolma.org/?p=2989
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We are deeply saddened to hear of @omotayoagunbiad's recent passing. Tayo became a SCOLMA member earlier this year and brought a refreshingly light humour when conducting historical research on West African women.
We will miss her.
bellanaija.com/2024/10/tayo-…
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2⃣ Our 2nd Seminar from the #SCOLMA2024SS is now live on YouTube, titled "Digital Resources for
African Studies: Teaching & Research"
How do you use digital resources to teach?
🔔Remember to subscribe to our channel to be notified as soon as # 3⃣ drops!
youtube.com/watch?v=4coPvnAG…
ALT YouTube Launch - SCOLMA Digital Resources for African Studies: Teaching & Research - Speaker images on a blue background - click the link to watch the full video and become a SCOLMA member, explore the benefits, and support our work: https://scolma.org/?p=2989
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It’s spooky season and the Library has some new tenants 🕸️
Come enjoy the crisp (and hopefully later sunny) air on our balcony before the weekend!
ALT Spider web covered in mist on the African Studies Library balcony
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18 Oct 2024
We’ve created a guide for new and returning @Cambridge_Uni students, including online resources, top tips, skills training, tours, collections, and what’s new this term.
lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/studen…
#Cambridge #GoingtoCambridge
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📜We’ve accepted pamphlet correspondences from HMSO with East & South Africa c. 1921-26 donated by Leo Amery & his son, Julian. Both father & son were war correspondents with Leo having covered the Boer War.
🖇️Click the link in our bio to view the list and to request a viewing!
ALT Pamphlets donated by Leo and Julian Amery sprawled out on a desk in the African Studies Library.
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African Studies Library - Cambridge University retweeted
14 Oct 2024
The Evaristo Prize for African Poetry is open to submissions till November 1st!
The prize is awarded to 10 poems by an African writers who have not yet published a full-length book of poetry.
More info here: africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/cont…
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African Studies Library - Cambridge University retweeted
CAAS Conference 2025
Theme: "Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Africa"
CFP Deadline: December 2, 2024
More info: conference.caas-acea.org/
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1⃣ Our 1st Seminar from the #SCOLMA2024SS is now available on YouTube, titled "Digital Re-Curation
& Creative Research with African Archives"
How does this relate to your work?
🔔Remember to subscribe to our channel to be notified as soon as # 2⃣ drops!
youtube.com/watch?v=jh8NoX0D…
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📢Exciting news! Our Call for Papers is now live for our 2025 Conference📢
"Through the generations: youth, ageing and African Studies collections"
30th June 2025, University of Oxford
Keynote: Dr Buhle Mbabmbo-Thata, University of Lesotho.
ℹ️ scolma.org/?p=3143
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RT @CamSociology: 📢Our departmental seminar series kicks off next Tues 15 October at 12.30 in the Sociology Seminar Room.
Join us to discu…
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Happy first day of term to our Cantabs!
The library will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday October 8th) from 12pm-2pm for our MPhil induction.
Please come see us before or after!
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