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Africa, West

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Grammar of the Foolah language by Robert Maxwell MacBrair

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-785
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1836-1843

Herd of Cattle in a Kraal on the Accra Plains [Africa], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1114
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

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

Typical West African Shorthorned Cows, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/780
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1870s-1930s