🔴🟡🟢 Amílcar Cabral, the famed revolutionary leader of the people of Guinea-Bissau & the Cape Verde Islands, lives on! Celebrate Cabral's centenary with this extraordinary book display put together by our MPhil, Neo, on in the Library to January 17th. Click the 🔗 in our bio to read more!

Ever used a thesis or dissertation as part of your research? If not, you probably will at some point in your academic career. We recently moved our 100+ unpublished theses collection to our archive. Ask us about how they might improve your research!

📜We’ve accepted pamphlet correspondences from HMSO with East & South Africa c. 1921-26, donated by Leo Amery & his son, Julian. Both father & son were war correspondents with Leo having covered the Boer War. Click the link our bio to view the full list and to request a viewing!

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth2024 - the Olusoga trio have brought us a treat just in time. This anthology of Black history facts would look great on your shelves! You can borrow it from us today 📚

Have you seen 'The Man Died' yet? Wole Soyinka's prison memoirs have been made into a film - read his thoughts on it and its context: edition.cnn.com/world/africa...

If you know a "Global South" scholar, activist, member of NGO, journalist, etc who needs invite codes to bluesky, please ask them fill in this form: forms.gle/Sti3aVg3C7ZZ...

Open Cambridge is fully under way here - the Wren Library is open at the usual times (from 12pm to 2pm) today and tomorrow, but also on *Saturday from 10am to 4pm*. Join the queue as early as possible and enjoy a visit to our beautiful building and stunning collections!

🎺New Collection Alert 🎺 The Swahili Reference Collection, containing 25 items books and pamphlets of Poetry, Proverbs, Plays, Prose, Riddles, Fiction, and Superstitions c. 1952-1991 is now available for viewing. Access the blog & full collection aid: asclibraryblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/s...

📣 New digitised collection! "Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections" at @theul.bsky.social is complete! 7000+ images have been added to the collection page, selected from 23 archive collections & more than 40 print items. 🔗 in bio for more!

Calling Caribbean literature fans! Did you know our English Faculty Library's "Tasker Collection" comprises over 100 Caribbean literature titles? The EFL is just across the path from the Centre of African Studies - drop them an email at [email protected] for questions.

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📘📗📕 Our April book display is up! "Disability Studies and People with Disabilities in Africa & the Diaspora" is a curated selection of mostly eBooks you can access via searching iDiscover or by scanning the QR codes from the display. Come borrow and scan!

A new exhibition has landed in our Centre & Library! Explore these brilliant collages of photo-copied Zambian archival material from the Royal Commonwealth Society Collection held at @theul.bsky.social Full walkthrough video and info: www.instagram.com/p/C5TSQUKIebe/ 🔗 in bio for more!

Seminar 3 has opened for registration & our very own Jenni Skinner is chairing! Come see what we're all about. Digital (Re)Connections & Dispersed Collections brings into conversation researchers working with material that has been dispersed by colonial violence. Register at the link in our bio!

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The 2024 SCOLMA Seminar Series continues! 📅 Feb. 14 - 13:00-14:00 GMT, Online Seminar 2, Digital Resources for African Studies: Teaching & Research, hosts impressive speakers and will be as lively as our first Seminar! Register now at the link in our bio. #afripolsky

💻 Pleased to circulate the new blog detailing the African Collections Future project, run by our very own Cantab, Dr. Eva Namusoke. 🌍 Eva seeks to develop a better sense of where Africa-related objects and materials are across the University of Cambridge. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/introdu...

📅 January 31, 1-2pm GMT - online Digital Re-Curation & Creative Research with African Archives: SCOLMA Seminar Series #1 Registration is open for the 1st of 5 FREE seminars in our 2024 series "African Studies in the Digital Age" Register and find more info at the link in our bio!

"Alternative Ways of Knowing (in) Africa" Consider Africa’s ‘lived realities’ and the new ways of knowing that these realities engender. Sound like your research? Submit your abstract! We'll be drip-feeding the ASAUK streams over the next month to hype you up! #asauk2024 #afripolsky

ASAUK 2024 is happening August 29-31 at Oxford Brookes University. There are 30+ topics within the theme "Generation and Regeneration" that you can submit an abstract for - deadline is April 20th! Click the link to find out more. #afrpolsky

⛪️ Calling all studying missions! - African Missions of the United Presbyterian Church, National Library of Scotland - The SUM in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, & other Territories - Papers of Bishop Ridsdale (1916-2000), Missionary to the Eastern Congo, from the Cambridge CCW #afripolsky

The Cambridge University African Studies Library is open for 2024! Get in touch with us for any enquiries or come say hello - Ben and Jenni will be happy to help you find what you need. Wishing everybody a happy new year!