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LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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This is probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.

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Digital Collections

These resources provide access to collections of libraries around the world that would otherwise not be available for use or would require extensive travel to access.

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LibGuides: Primary Sources Home: Digital Collections

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Binghampton University Guide to African History

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Binghampton University Guide to African History

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This includes links to various sites with digitized sources on African history.

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Subject Guides: African History: Digital Historical Document Websites By Country

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Subject Guides: African History: Digital Historical Document Websites By Country

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Harold Scheub is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature at UW-Madison. He specializes in African oral traditions and written literatures.

South African Voices is a three-volume work that includes: A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry

From the Introduction to Volume 1, A Long Time Passed, Professor Scheub writes:

"Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s, I made a number of research trips to southern Africa, hoping to gather a representative collection of oral tales, histories, and poems from among the Nguni peoples: the Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa, the Swati in Swaziland, and the Ndebele in the southern part of Zimbabwe. I encountered a wealth of oral traditions, met hundreds of storytellers, mythmakers, poets, and historians, and was allowed by these enormously talented raconteurs and poets to tape many of these works. In the end, I had taped and filmed over 9,000 pieces of oral tradition.""Of the many artists whose productions I witnessed, one of the most brilliant and talented was Nongenile Masithathu Zenani of the Transkei. Her home was on the slope of a lazy hill some thirty miles from the Indian Ocean in Gatyana District in the Transkei; she was about fifty years old when I first met her, a member of the Gcaleka state of the Xhosa nation. She had become a traditional doctor some years ago, and she was a successful if somewhat forbidding one. She was also an expert creator of Xhosa iintsomi, fantasy stories in the oral tradition."
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Harold Scheub is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature at UW-Madison. He specializes in African oral traditions and written literatures.

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The history of imperialism is covered extensively on the world wide web. The sites listed below have been selected to demonstrate some of the high quality resources available.

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History in Focus: Empire - Web Resources

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This BBCi History website, The British Empire, provides a number of useful essays and resources on the Britain's imperial and colonial history. The focus is on a handful of topics, namely British India, aspects of Commonwealth history, and general overviews of Britain's colonial acquisitions.

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AODL is an open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, scholars, and communities around the world.

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Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience 24/7. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global Black experience through online materials at the Schomburg Center created and curated by our staff and librarians. Visitors can locate online articles, digital exhibitions, photographs, audio and…

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Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali.

Since 2011, our collaborative team of US and Malian conservators has been cleaning, scanning, cataloging, and rehousing circa 100,000 photographic negatives from the archives of Mamadou Cissé, Adama Kouyaté, Abdourahmane Sakaly, Malick Sidibé, and Tijani Sitou for long-term preservation and access.

Spanning the 1940s-90s, this collection reveals changes and continuities in political and cultural practices, social trends, and photographic production in Mali during the twentieth century.

While these materials have undergone several review processes, additional revision is expected as the collection grows and distribution images are edited to reflect the original aesthetic. Please contact us if you notice duplications, inconsistencies, or inaccuracies.

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Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali. Since 2011, our collaborative team of US and Malian conservators has been cleaning, scanning, cataloging, and rehousing circa 100,000 photographic negatives from the archives of Mamadou Cissé, Adama Kouyaté, Abdourahmane Sakaly, Malick Sidibé, and Tijani Sitou for long-term preservation and access.

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Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced.

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Testimonies of West Africans
from the Era of Slavery

Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced. This digital repository of autobiographical testimonies and biographical data establishes where people came from, why they were enslaved, whether or not they freed themselves, and what happened to them.

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Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery Freedom Narratives focuses on the enforced migration of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century. The biographical accounts included here include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in West Africa whose voices have long been silenced.

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The Library of Congress

African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress

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Islamic Manuscripts from Mali features 32 manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, both in Timbuktu, Mali. The manuscripts presented online are displayed in their entirety and are an exemplary grouping that showcase the wide variety of subjects covered by the written traditions of Timbuktu, Mali, and West Africa.

The manuscripts are written in various styles of the Arabic script. These styles were developed in Timbuktu and the surrounding regions of Mali and West Africa.

There are special presentations of maps, photographs, and other information about the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library. These presentations provide a fuller picture of the culture and society which produced and preserved these valuable artifacts of human endeavor.

Digital images of the manuscripts were donated by Abdel Kader Haidara, owner and director of the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library. The Library of Congress will include additional manuscripts in the future as new digital images are received.
The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.

The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
Special Presentations:
Traditional Landscape
Timbuktu - an Islamic Cultural Center
Timbuktu in Space and Time - Maps
Enhanced Version of the Annotated Document Sullam al-Atfal fi Buyu al-Ajal

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Islamic Manuscripts from Mali Collection: Home

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Featureing 22 manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, both in Timbuktu, Mali, the collection represents a wide variety of subjects covered by the written traditions of Timbuktu, Mali, and West Africa.

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G. I. Jones Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture

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G. I. Jones Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture

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This collection of photographs, taken by a British colonial administrator in Nigeria, documents the art and culture of various people groups in Nigeria.

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The photographs in this archive were taken in the 1930s by the late G. I. Jones. These photos are only a sample of the complete collection.

The photographs are unique for the creative brilliance of the art represented, the quality of the photography, and the cultural and historical significance of photographic records from this time period in Nigeria.

This archive was produced by John C. McCall with the cooperation of Ursula Jones. It was created as part of a project funded by The English Speaking Union and Southern Illinois University. Production facilities were generously provided by the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge.

This site is a research resource. It was designed to make these photographs available to people who have a personal or professional interest in the art of Southeastern Nigeria. The limited information provided reproduces the notes written by Jones on the photos. Jones published the some of the photographs with additional documentation. Researchers are encouraged to consult the bibliography for more information.

Jones at the Nsude pyramids (click to enlarge)

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Click on photos to enlarge. Use your browser's back-arrow to return to page. The photographs in this archive were taken in the 1930s by the late G. I. Jones. These photos are only a sample of the complete collection.

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Wilson Center Digital Archive: Horn of Africa Crisis

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Wilson Center Digital Archive: Horn of Africa Crisis

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This is a collection of primary source documents related to the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s (also known as the 1977-1978 Ogaden War or the Ethiopian-Somali Conflict).

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Conversation for the record between Zhivkov and Castro during a four-day-long state visit of the Cuban leader to Bulgaria. Among the main issues discussed was the state of economic development in both countries, their relations with Albania, China, Romania and Yugoslavia; the Cuban foreign policy in Africa and the Caribbean; the civil war in Angola; the battle for the Third World.

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The Sudan Open Archive offers free digital access to knowledge about all regions of Sudan. It is an expanding, word-searchable, full-text database of historical and contemporary books and documents. The current version, SOA 3.0, includes two new special collections: the first thirty-two volumes of Sudan Notes and Records, Sudan's flagship scholarly journal, and the collected papers of the late Sudan scholar, Richard Gray.

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DISA is a freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.

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Digital Innovation South Africa | Unlocking Resources for Research

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DISA is a freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994, providing a wealth of material on this fascinating period of the country's history.

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This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

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Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can rea…