Africa
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Locator = 31.791702;-7.092620,Other = My Geo Position,Created For = Africa
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Our Guide, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/14
Scope and Contents
Portrait of a man who was a guide in Africa for the scientists. 'Our guide was a Somali of the Herti tribe; notice the fringe to his "Tobe," which was striped yellow and white, and the broad-bladed thrusting spear"; in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-490
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers, articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, audio-visual material, and artefacts of Professor George "Sam" Shepperson, a prominent scholar of African and American African history, and Malawi specialist. This includes, among other things, papers and correspondence relating to central and eastern Africa with special reference to Malawi and Tanzania (including correspondence of Julius Nyerere); papers on nationalism in Nyasaland (Malawi), including...
Dates:
late 19th-century - late 20th century
Papers of Adrian Hastings (1929-2001)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 36
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material relating to: Hastings' study of and book on Christian marriage in Africa (1951-1974); the use of catechists in Africa by the Catholic church (1967-1970); the Catholic Institute of International Relations, including publications, papers, minutes and reports (1971-1982); the diploma of religious studies at Makere University, Uganda (1968-1972); seminars in Africa including a seminar for young Catholic men at Lubushi, Zambia (1962), and seminars on the church...
Dates:
1935-1982
Papers of Colin Legum
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-693
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1970s
Papers of Joseph H. Oldham (1874-1969) and Betty D. Gibson (1889-1973)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 2
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: correspondence and reports relating to the difficulties faced by German and German speaking missionaries after the war (1914-c 1923); reports on the history and activities of German missions, in particular the Basel Mission (1912-1951); correspondence between Oldham and Gibson about Gibson's visit to Africa and Oldham's IMC work (1933); and papers and correspondence collected by Gibson on missions and churches (including some German missions) in Congo, Rwanda,...
Dates:
1912-1975
Papers of Kenneth Little
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-718
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Kenneth Little's research and other academic work, including:
Research notes
Personal financial and other papers.
Research papers, reports etc.
Research papers, funding applications, reports etc. on race relations matters (some confidential)
Booklets and reports relating to Ghana and Sierra Leone
Staff...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1979
Papers of Ralph Ibbott relating to Ruvuma Development Association
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1827
Content Description
These papers consist of correspondence, publications, articles, pamphlets, reports and newsletters relating to the Ruvuma Development Association (RDA) of Tanzania in the 1960s. There are a small number of letters to and from Julius Nyerere himself, as well as correspondence with other key actors in the history of the RDA. Also included is some research material related to Ralph Ibboott's subsequent publications on the subject.
...
Dates:
1963-2015
Papers relating to Francis Fraser Darling
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1141
Content Description
Papers relating to Sir Frank Fraser Darling (1903-1979), ecologist and lecturer in ecology and conservation at the University of Edinburgh. This collection includes black-and-white research photographs of landscapes and animals, correspondence, African ecological reports and minutes of meetings, publications, handwritten notes, and tapes.
Dates:
1930s-1970s
People at an Outdoor Market in Africa, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2191
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a group of people at a market in Africa in the early/mid 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
People Eating in an American-British Dining Hall in Africa, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2234
Scope and Contents
Photograph of men and boys sitting at long dining tables with a group of men and women standing in the background in a dining hall in the early 20th century Africa. There are both the American and British flags on display on the wall.
Dates:
1870s-1930s