Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-jswmv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-15T20:33:52.046Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

People, Places and African Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Patricia M. Larby
Get access

Extract

This article is based on a talk given to the SCOLMA annual general meeting in 1993 and is, very largely, a personal backward look at my involvement with people, places and African studies since the late 1950s.

When I first went to Africa in the fifties long distance travel was not the commonplace it is now. Uganda, where I took up my first overseas appointment as Librarian to the Department of Agriculture, was then a twenty-four hour flight away with stops at Rome, Benghazi and Khartoum. It is difficult to recapture first impressions on setting foot on African soil but there is a confused memory of heat, blazing sun (at 8 am), and the brilliant colours of the trees, flowers and the dresses of the Baganda women as well as mild cultural shock at finding that all the men wore shorts: I was not prepared for all those hairy knees.

Information

Type
Articles
Information
African Research and Documentation , Volume 62 , 1993, pp. 17 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1993

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Library Materials on Africa, Vol. 1-Vol. 10, No. 3. SCOLMA, 1962-72.Google Scholar
Periodicals from Africa: a bibliography and union list, comp. Travis, Carole and Alman, Miriam. G.K. Hall, 1977. Supplement, 1977, comp. Travis, Carole and Blake, David.Google Scholar
UK publications and theses on Africa, 1963-1966/67. Heffer, 1966-73 5 vols.Google Scholar
SCOLMA directory of libraries and special collections on Africa in the United Kingdom and in Europe, 5th ed. comp. French, Tom. Zell, 1993.Google Scholar
Theses on Africa, 1976-1988, comp. C., Helen Price, Hewson, Colin and Blake, David. Zell, 1993.Google Scholar
African research & documentation. Vol. 1. SCOLMA, 1973.Google Scholar
The bibliography of Africa: proceedings and papers of the International Conference on African Bibliography, 1967, ed. Pearson, J.D. and Jones, Ruth. Cass, 1970.Google Scholar
Progress in African bibliography. SCOLMA, 1977.Google Scholar
New directions in African bibliography. SCOLMA, 1988.Google Scholar
African books in print. Zell, 1975.Google Scholar
African book publishing record. Zell, 1975.Google Scholar
Africa: a guide to reference material, comp. McIlwaine, J.. Zell, 1993.Google Scholar
Guide to archives and manuscripts relating to Kenya and East Africa in the United Kingdom, comp. Thurston, Anne. Zell, 1991. 2 vols.Google Scholar
International African bibliography, 1971-Mansell, 1971.Google Scholar
Africa bibliography, 1984- Edinburgh University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
United States and Africa: guide to US official documents and government sponsored publications on Africa, comp. Witherell, Julian. Library of Congress, 1978.Google Scholar
Accessions list: Eastern Africa, Vol. 1. Library of Congress, 1968.Google Scholar
Joint acquisitions list ofAfricana, 1962-, Northwestern University, 1962.Google Scholar
Bibliographies for African studies, comp. Scheven, Yvette. Zell, 1970/75.Google Scholar
US imprints on sub Scharan Africa, 1-Library of Congress, 1985.Google Scholar