Africa, West

Scope and Contents Family correspondence (110 letters), 1762-1807. Letters mainly about Prof. Andrew Dalzel [also known as Dalzell, or Dalziel] and Archibald Dalzel. Includes an index in the box. 96 letters of Archibald Dalzel to his brother Andrew Dalzel; 2 letters Archibald Dalzel to his brother William Dalzel; 1 letter Archibald Dalzel to his sister Elizabeth; 3 letters...

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Autograph manuscript of MacBrair's 'sketch' of the grammar of the Foolah (or Foulah) language spoken by the pastoral Foulahs (or Fulani), the Teucorlars (or Tukulors) and the Laubies of the interior of Western Africa, bound together.

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Photograph of a herd of Fulani cattle in a kraal on the Accra plains near the Department of Animal Health Livestock Farm in the early/mid 20th century. The text beneath the image notes the unsanitary conditions of the kraal and the high mortality rate of the calves.

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...

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Photograph of several typical West African Shorthorned cows in a paddock in the 20th century.