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Title: | Africa, sport and the archive: the SCOLMA conference 2011 |
Editor: | Pinfold, John |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | African Research and Documentation (ISSN 0305-862X) |
Issue: | 116 |
Pages: | 117 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Liberia Kenya South Africa Zimbabwe Scotland United States |
Subjects: | sports archives football newspapers cricket |
Abstract: | The papers in this special issue were presented at the 2011 SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) conference on 'Africa, sport and the archive'. The papers are: Materials relating to sport in Africa in the collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: an overview (Michelle Guittar & David L. Easterbrook); Boycotts and bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council of Scotland (Karl Magee); Anglophone Africa in the Olympic movement: the confirmation of a British wager? (1948-1962) (Pascal Charitas); A game for the good? Football, youths and the Liberian civil conflict (Holly Collison); 'The Standard': a repository of African sports history (Michelle Sikes); South African sports history and the archive (Dean Allen); Cricket and war in early Rhodesia, 1890-99 (Jonty Winch). [ASC Leiden abstract] |