Global Utilities

African Studies Resources
at the Reid Library,
University of Western Australia

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1. The following African Studies web site is maintained and updated bi-annually:

An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet compiled by Peter Limb

2. The Reid Library holds a considerable number of core Africanist monographs and journals, and select archival documents, chiefly in microform. These resources include dissertations, annual reports and other government documents, and collections of private and organizational papers, including:

Microfilm

 

African Newspapers and Journals

 Manuscript Material


Microfilms relating to

South Africa

Kenya

Tanganyika

United States and Africa

Colin Legum clipping collection

Immanuel Wallerstein collection of liberation movement ephemera


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South African microfilms

Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union [microform] : records 1925-1947 11 microfiche. Archive nos. A923 and A924.

Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa, yase Natal [microform] : records, 1925-1943 6 microfilm reels

Kadalie, Clements, 1896-1951. My life and the I.C.U [microform] : papers relating to the book 2 microfiche.

Carter-Karis collection [microform] 23 microfilm reels.

Luthuli, A. J. (Albert John), 1898-1967. [Papers, letters etc., 1948-67] [microform] 2 microfilm reels

Selected pamphlets, handbooks, congress and other reports relating to South Africa [microform] 1 microfilm reel.

South Africa [microform] : a collection of miscellaneous documents, 1902-1963] 16 microfilm reels. A collection of newspapers, journals and documents from the Hoover Institution, covering the period 1902-1963 in South Africa.

South Africa. Natives Representative Council. [Verbatim reports of the proceedings of the Natives Representative Council, 1937-1946 [microform] 5 microfilm reels

South Africa, the war of 1899-1902 and the Chinese labour question [microform] / editor, Baruch Hirson. 10 microfilm reels

South African Institute of Race Relations. [Records, 1908-1962] [microform] : Wits Univ Library JBH RSA : AD 843, B Box records 33 microfilm reels

[South African miscellaneous manuscripts, 1911-1953] [microform] 1 reel

South African Native Affairs Commission. Report of the Commission with annexures and appendices [microform] 1904-05. 2 microfilm reels

[South African Police and Justice Department files [microform]] 6 microfilm reels.

Xuma, A. B. (Alfred Bitini), ca.1893-1962. Personal papers of Dr. A.B. Xuma [microform] 10 microfilm reels

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Kenya and East African High Commission

Kenya. Annual departmental reports relating to Kenya and the East Africa High Commission 1903/4-1963 [microform] 112 microfilm reels

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Tanganyika

Tanganyika. Government publications relating to Tanganyika 1919-1961 [microform] 78 reels.

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United States

John F. Kennedy national security files [microform]. Africa : national security files, 1961-1963. 12 microfilm reels

United States. Africa [microform] : special studies 1962-1980 7 microfilm reels

United States. Africa 1941-1961 [microform] / [edited by Paul Kesaris] Washington : University Publications of America, [1980] 11 microfilm reels

United States. CIA research reports Africa, 1946-1976 3 microfilm reels

United States. Confidential U.S. State Department central files. South Africa, 1945-1949, and 1950-1954 14 and 23 microfilm reels

United States. South Africa [microform] : the making of U.S. policy, 1962-1989. Alexandria, Va : Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. 439 microfiches + 2 v. printed guide and index.

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Colin Legum Clipping Collection

Legum, Colin. Colin Legum's press cuttings volumes 1936-1986 [and] Writings from the 1940's to the 1980's [microform] 10 microfilm reels, 40 microfiches

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Immanuel Wallerstein collection of liberation movement ephemera

Select documents from the Immanuel Wallerstein collection of political ephemera of the liberation movements of Anglophone southern Africa, 1958-1975. 4 microfilm reels.

Select documents from the Immanuel Wallerstein collection of political ephemera of the liberation movements of Lusophone Africa, 1954-74 [microform] 5 microfilm reels

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Various African journals and newspapers are also held on microform, including:

Cape Times 1918-1922

Fighting talk, 1954-1962, Johannesburg

Guardian/New Age

Imvo zabantsundu

Inkululeko (Freedom), 1939-1945, Johannesburg.

Inkundla ya bantu 1944-1951

Liberation, 1953-1959

Negro worker.1931-1937.

New times and Ethiopa news, 1936-1956

Passive resister, 1946-1948, Johannesburg

Umsebenzi : The South African worker.

Umvikeli-Thebe : The African defender]

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The Reid Library also holds some original collections, including

Coutts, W. F. (Walter F.), Sir. Letters from Africa [sound recording] 4 sound cassettes.

[Ghana politics and economy, 1950's-1980s : publications] 8 box files. Collected by Robert E. Dowse.

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