Monthly Archives: April 2016
Papa Wemba’s popularity
Here’s a link to an excellent background story from “the Beeb” on legendary Congolese musician Papa Wemba’s central role in the African music and culture scenes through six decades. I was not aware that he led the Sape movement, which has gotten some recent popular attention in the media over the last few years. He became […]
Biodiversity Fellowships
UF Biodiversity Institute Graduate Student Fellowships, 2016-17 Call for applications These 9-month Fellowships are geared toward mid-PhD students whose dissertation projects could particularly benefit from interdisciplinary opportunities with faculty, post-docs, and students outside their departments or programs. The UFBI also anticipates funding Summer Fellowships, beginning Summer, 2017; further information about this program will be available […]
Indigenous publishing in Africa
Hans Zell’s “Indigenous publishing in Africa – the need for research, documentation, and collaboration” is available as a pre-print at Academia.edu. This contribution to the collection, Coming of Age. Strides in African Publishing. Essays in Honour of Dr. Henry Chakava @ 70, is to be published by East African Educational Publishers Ltd, Nairobi, later this month. The book will […]
Librarians of Timbuktu
Joshua Hammer’s The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (2016 Simon & Schuster) is reviewed by Tom Glenn in the Washington Independent Review of Books: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu provides irrefutable evidence that culture and learning in Africa were far more advanced than in Europe by the 16th century when Timbuktu flourished as […]
African Studies library 