Proposals A-Z
Participating librarians and scholars provide information here about collections, archives and data sets of interest to area and international studies (AIS) research, propose preservation of those collections and the creation of new digital resources from data sets, and vote on the merits of those proposals. Community input provided here informs and guides the building of new AIS resources.
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African Newspapers 1992-2018 Library of Congress - Nairobi, Part 2
Library of Congress, Nairobi Office proposes for microfilming a collection of 100 African newspaper titles from 1992-2018 with an estimated 48,000 pages. Countries covered include Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Ghana, Lesotho, Mauritius, Senegal, Somalia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The collection covers varied topics including business, politics, leisure and economics news that would greatly inform the intellectual debates of the period covered.
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The Encounter: Official newspaper of the Christian League of Southern Africa and the Rhodesia Christian group
Countering the efforts of the antiapartheid community the CLSA and the RCG rallied in support of the governments apartheid policies. Both groups supported the government’s policies on religious grounds in the case of the CLSA and on anti Marxists grounds in terms of the RCG. The CLSA was criticized for brining both religious and political issues together in the same debate.
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