Africa, East

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Photograph of a Greater Kudu antelope lying on the ground in the woodlands of eastern or southern Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Journal account written by Alexander Carmichael of the departure of his son Eoghan for Africa describing seeing him off at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, noting who met him in London and that he set sail on the 'SS Scot' from London, England for Chinde, East Africa [Mozambique]. Of his departure, Carmichael writes 'Poor darling boy! We shall not see him at the soonest for five years - perhaps never. God alone knows. This is the first break in the family.'

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Photograph of several Lake N'gami Bighorns resembling Ankola cattle standing in the road in front of a building in British East Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version;...

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...

Scope and Contents Press Cuttings: 1926 - 1984. 1926 Bulawyo Chronicle: 'Baptism murder trial.' 1960 Guardian: 'Mr H. Nkumbula declines Chequers party'; Scotsman: 'Africans studied in prison'. 1961 Fighting Talk: 'Central African Federation crisis'; ...

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Quote about cleaning and grinding corn as it is carried out by women, taken from '[David] Livingstone's Last Journals Ulungu country p 214.'

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Photograph of a sable [antelope] lying in the grass on the savannah in Eastern Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Photograph of a small flock of sheep grazing in a field in East Africa in the early 20th century.