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1997
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2018
Book chapter
Digital sources in Europe for African history
There are copious resources for the study of African history on the internet. They include manuscripts and documentary archives, maps, museum collections, newspapers, printed books, picture collections, and sound and moving images. The websites of European institutions provide a good proportion of this content, reflecting the long, entangled, and troubled... -
2016
Book
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
This bold, challenging and celebratory new book accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library the first in the UK to explore in such detail the vibrant cultural history of this complex and compelling region. The authors explain how West Africans have profoundly shaped their own histories, focusing in particular...Casely-Hayford, Gus ; Topp Fargion, Janet ; Wallace, Marion
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2015
Journal article
Personal circuits: official tours and South Africa’s colony
This paper focuses on the visits of Sydney Buxton, Governor-General of South Africa, and his party to South West Africa (SWA, now Namibia) in 1915 and 1919. These, I argue, formed part of a broader economy of what might be called ‘personal circuits’ – journeys and visits by important personages...Wallace, Marion
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2014
Book
African Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects?
African Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects? seeks to understand the complex changes brought about by the digital revolution. The editors, Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace, have brought together librarians, archivists, researchers and academics from three continents to analyse the creation and use of digital research resources and archives in...Barringer, Terry ; Wallace, Marion
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2011
Book
A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990
In 1990 Namibia gained its independence after a decades-long struggle against South African rule - and, before that, against German colonialism. This book, the first new scholarly general history of Namibia in two decades, provides a fresh synthesis of these events, and of the much longer pre-colonial period. A History...Wallace, Marion
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2008
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2015
Interactive resource
How word, symbol and song shaped history
Gus Casely-Hayford (SOAS and King’s College London), Janet Topp Fargion (British Library) and Marion Wallace (British Library) introduce the cultural dynamism and creativity of West Africa, and explain how word, symbol and song have shaped a thousand years of history.Casely-Hayford, Augustus ; Topp Fargion, Janet ; Wallace, Marion
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