DECOLONISING MAASAI HISTORY 🗣️ How do you approach decolonial research? Join us for the final seminar in our "Work in Progress" series - this coming Wednesday July 8th, 1pm BST online. Secure your spot while there's still space 🔻 www.eventbrite.com/e/scolma-202...

Translating literary classics isn't just about finding the right words. It's also about expanding whose languages, cultures and readers are part of the global conversation. theconversation.com/ulysses-in-i... #ArtsCultureAndSociety

📜 How do you approach using archives of Africa? Come find out this Wednesday - sign up via Eventbrite using the link in our post below 🔻

SCOLMA@scolma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our 2nd seminar is on its way! We warmly invite you to join us and register for: "A Toolkit for Working in Archives of Africa & Its Diaspora", hosted by colleagues from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 📅 June 24th, 1-2pm BST 📍 Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scolma-202...

💻 Join the @scolma.bsky.social webinar and find out more about Archives in Action – The Three As, a toolkit designed for public archives, community organisations and individual researchers interested in Africa and the African diaspora. 📅 24 June, 13:00-14:00 📍 Online 🔗 Register 🔽

SCOLMA 2026 SS: A Toolkit for Working in Archives of Africa & Its Diaspora

Join us to discuss Archives in Action - The Three A's; a toolkit designed by King's College London for parties interested in Africa.

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Our 2nd seminar is on its way! We warmly invite you to join us and register for: "A Toolkit for Working in Archives of Africa & Its Diaspora", hosted by colleagues from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 📅 June 24th, 1-2pm BST 📍 Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scolma-202...

🔤Are you an expert speaker of an African language and feel frustrated at the dominance of English in global knowledge production about Africa and its varied forms of cultural expression? The ALMEDA project is tackling this issue TOMORROW in our first of three online seminars over the next month. 🔻

SCOLMA@scolma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 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...

Don't miss out on a spot to our first seminar in this series!

SCOLMA@scolma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 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...

📢 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

Panel 1 | Engaging young people with African history | SCOLMA 2025 Conference

YouTube video by SCOLMA

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📽️ 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....

Publishing World Christianity Locally and Globally: Opportunities and Ethics | Studies in World Christianity

Publishing on World Christianity depends heavily on research completed in the Global South. Yet making the fruits of such research available to Global South communities through accessible publications...

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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

Black British Voices: Black British Collections

Join a community panel to shape Cambridge University Library's 2027 public exhibition and programme

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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.”

Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa

The stories of six South African women who travelled to fight for workers and for women’s rights, and risked it all.

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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...

“New African” Culture and Black Sociopolitical Life in Early to Mid-Twentieth-Century South Africa

AbstractThis chapter explores the contours and complexities of “New African” ideas, culture, society, and politics in twentieth-century South Africa. It wa

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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!

Job Vacancy at the University of Brighton: Research Fellow in African Film and Visual History (0.5 full-time equivalent)

Join an international collaborative project researching film and visual history in UgandaWe’re looking for a Research Fellow in African Film and Visual History to join the international team responsib...

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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!