Where are Cambridge's African Studies Materials?
The best place to start is by visiting the African Studies Library and speaking to one of our librarians.
There are many other print collections in Cambridge that hold relevant material to African Studies. Please check for opening hours and borrowing rights.
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Cambridge African monograph series & papers |
Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation (CRSid Login): ABRD brings together essay content from Africa Bibliography, the authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984, with the former African Research & Documentation, the journal of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) published since 1973. ABRD publishes articles and book reviews on topics relating to research, libraries, archives and publishing in and on Africa, and in African Studies.
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Routledge's Knowledge Unlatched - African Studies Collection
Here's what we have access to now:
Africa’s elite football : structure, politics, and everyday challenges / edited by Chuka Onwumechili.
Endogenous regional policy and development planning in Ghana / Sam C.M. Ofori.
Participatory theatre and the urban everyday in South Africa : place and play in Johannesburg / Alexandra Halligey.
Political protest in contemporary Kenya : change and continuities / Jacob Mwathi Mati.
Press silence in postcolonial Zimbabwe : news whiteouts, journalism and power / Zvenyika Eckson Mugari.
Rethinking African agriculture : how non-agrarian factors shape peasant livelihoods / edited by Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura and Tadasu Tsuruta.
Social licensing and mining in South Africa / Sethulego Matebesi.
Social policy in post-apartheid South Africa : social re-engineering for inclusive development / Ndangwa Noyoo.
The everyday life of the poor in Cameroon : the role of social networks in meeting needs / Nathanael Ojong.
The everyday state in Africa : governance practices and state ideas in Ethiopia / Daniel Mulugeta.
Toward an animist reading of postcolonial trauma literature : reading beyond the single subject / Jay Rajiva.
Urban issues in rapidly growing cities : planning for development in Addis Ababa / Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel.
Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora / edited by Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam, Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe, Sola Timothy Babatunde, Olutola Akindipe.
Narrating Human Rights in Africa / Eleni Coundouriotis.
Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa / Romola Adeola.
Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa :emerging trends / edited by Okon Akiba.
African Scholars & Intellectuals in North American Academies / edited by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde.
Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa / Tanja E Bosch.
Modern Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Lori Maguire, Susan Ball and Sébastien Lefait.
Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa / edited by Jacinta Mwende Maweu and Admire Mare.
Human Rights and Gendered Violence in African Literature and Film / edited by Naomi Nkealah and Obioma Nnaemeka.
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing / Minna Johanna Niemi.
Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa / edited by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Irina Turner, and Abraham Brahima.
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African Studies Collections Outside of Cambridge
Linked below are various African Studies Centres in the UK and elsewhere. If you are interested in these institutions, we may be able to arrange for you to visit and consult their collections.
Northwestern's Edward Harland Duckworth (1894 -1972) Photograph Collection from Nigeria
For a more comprehensive list of African Studies Programs, Research Centers, and Universities, see Columbia's impressively curated list.
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Advice on how to find print journals at the African Studies Library (journals are reference only).
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Please see their pages for more information regarding what is available via the ILL Department (UL).
Texts to which Cambridge libraries have access through electronic legal deposit (eLD), also known as non-print legal deposit (NPLD), can be identified in iDiscover by the appearance of the phrase
“Online access restricted to designated PCs in the UL and most Faculty and Departmental libraries”.
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