📢 Our 2026 Seminar Series is here! We warmly invite you to join us and register for Seminar #1: "African Literary Accessibility through Linked Open Metadata" 📅 June 10th, 1-2pm BST 📍 Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scolma-202...

🔤 CRG seminar: The Drewes collection of Amharic books Join @ascleiden.bsky.social's CRG-ALA event, dedicated to the Drewes collection of Amharic books, which the library is in the process of cataloguing 📅 18 Jun 2026 ⏲️ 14 - 16.00 CEST 📍 Herta Mohr Building & Online ascleiden.nl/news/crg-sem...

📅 SAVE THE DATES! We are pleased to launch our Summer Seminar Series (Online), "Work in Progress". It focuses on decolonial projects in library & archive collections on Africa. Collaborative work is difficult, often raising productive but challenging conversations - our speakers will explore this!

📽️ Panel 1: Engaging Young People with African History Indulge in our next playback from our Summer 2025 Conference, including presentations on: Story Explorers Teaching transatlantic slavery Justice2History

📽️ Our 2025 Conference videos have arrived! In June we hosted the SCOLMA biennial conference in Oxford: "Through the Generations: Youth, Ageing and African Studies Collections" #KEYNOTE address by Lesotho University Librarian, Buhle Thata: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/IheAC48ooF...

"Publishing on World #Christianity depends heavily on research completed in the Global South." Ross & Crichton's new #OpenAccess article explores the disparity between publishing north to south with examples from #Africa. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Black British Voices: Black British Collections. Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme. 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025 🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY

theconversation.com/travel-as-ac... Just out in the Conversation Africa: My take on moving to be free. A study of black working women in apartheid who “travelled to gain ground for the greater cause of freedom, while discovering new versions of themselves along the way.”

Just published online, my chapter on cultural and sociopolitical developments, c1900-c1950, in the Oxford Handbook of South African History. A long journey to getting this out, but voila. Published in hardback in Apr ‘26. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Looking for your next research/work opportunity? The University of Brighton is hiring a Research Fellow in African Film and Visual History (0.5 full-time equivalent). The project is called "The Uganda Film Unit Archive: Digitisation, Research and Restitution" Good luck applying!

Our friends from the African Studies Group are calling for papers for a symposium on the theme African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Ways of Knowing – A Conversation of Traditions, Modernity, and the Future. www.africanstudiesgroup.com.au/asg-2025-sym... #UniMelb #AfricanStudies

today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata

Just out in @sajournalofscience.bsky.social: my review of Publishing from the South by Wits Press. Fascinating multi-authored read about the life and times of a distinctive university press and the broader dynamics of publishing from the global African South: sajs.co.za/article/view...

Dar es Salaam and the excellent Mashariki Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. Great to be part of the writing workshop and to reflect also on a decade (& slightly more) of the innovative journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Stimulating conversation, compassionate questions, and newfound friendships were a few intimate characteristics of our 2025 Conference! Thank you to all our speakers, chairs, and committee members for making this an unforgettable day. Presentations will be on YouTube soon!

What impact does Africa's growing youth population have on the role of archives & libraries that document the continent’s past? Come find out in Oxford next Monday June 30th! Register for SCOLMA's bi-annual conference today: t.co/LQjrV2O61O Ticket sales end this Wednesday 25th at 11pm!