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

The SIS African Studies is organising a workshop about research data management at the VAD Conference “Africa Challenges” 2021.

This week we recommend the online exhibtion “Ovizire. Somgu: From Where Do We Speak?”, a German-Namibian art and history exhibition project.

This week at the African Studies Toolbox, we’d like to share this call for help retrieving rare documents for the African Studies Library at the University of Cape Town.

The Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) organises every two years an international and interdisciplinary conference. The conference “African Challenges”, originally planned for September 2020, will be organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies at Goethe University and will take place mainly in virtual space due to the still difficult corona cicumstances.   Decision is still pending if there

We recommend the page on digital resources on lusophone African countries by the Specialised Information Service (SIS) for Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies.

This freely accessible resource was developed by the International African Institute (IAI) in association with the African Books Collective.

This lecture, Fieldwork in Violent and Dangerous Places by Morten Bøås, was published by the Social Science Research Council in March 2021.

This flyer answers essential questions regarding Creative Commons licences.

On Monday, 23rd November 2020, protagonists from around 30 cultural and academic institutions and working groups launched a cooperation for the establishment of sustainable research structures for handling collections and holdings from colonial contexts. The DFG round table was organized by the Working Group Colonial Provenances, part of the Research Association for Provenance Research, the