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"... the beginning of Africanisation ..." : The dawn of the missionary motive in Gold Coast education

Creator:: Bartels, Francis L.; Thompson, Thomas, 1708?-1773
Publication Date:: 1951
Publisher:: Methodist Book Depot ( Cape Coast (Ghana) )
Type:: Book
Format:: 19cm, 12p.
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Education -- Ghana -- History; Missions -- Ghana -- Educational work; Methodist Church
Language:: English

"Bosjesman" in the act of shooting at a man or a beast

Creator:: [Anonymous]
Publication Date:: [19th century]
Publisher:: painting ( S.l. )
Type:: Photograph
Format:: 1 colour painting ; 24cm x 30.5cm
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Khoikhoi (African people)
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Botswana; Africa -- South Africa
Language:: English

"Liberty!" versus liberty : some remarks on a South African petition

Creator:: Brydone, R. R.; South African Vigilance Committee
Publication Date:: 1900
Publisher:: South African Vigilance Committee ( Cape Town )
Type:: Book
Format:: 8 p. ; 21.5 cm.
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:: Transvaal (South Africa) -- Politics and government -- 1880-1910; South African War, 1899-1902; Suid-Afrikaanse Oorlog, 1899-1902; Imfazwe yaseMzantsi Afrika, 1899-1902; Transvaal (Suid-Afrika) -- Politiek en regering -- 1880-1910
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- South African Republic (1852-1902); Afrika -- Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (1852-1902); Afrika -- yaseMzantsi Afrika (1852-1902); Africa -- South Africa; Afrika -- Suid-Afrika
Language:: English

"The Healer", after Harold Copping by Tom Curr

Creator:: Curr, Tom ( Artist ); Copping, Harold, 1863-1932 ( Illustrator )
Publication Date:: [1917]
Publisher:: London Missionary Society ( London )
Type:: Photograph
Format:: 1 colour poster
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:: Medical care -- Africa; London Missionary Society
Spatial Coverage:: Africa
Language:: English

1935 floods

Creator:: Williams [Leonard Maurice?] ( Photographer )
Publication Date:: 1935
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Toamasina -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara; Afrique -- Madagascar -- Tamatave -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara; Floods; Natural disasters; Villages
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Madagascar -- Toamasina -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara
Language:: English

1935 floods

Creator:: Williams [Leonard Maurice?] ( Photographer )
Publication Date:: 1935
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Toamasina -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara; Afrique -- Madagascar -- Tamatave -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara; Floods; Natural disasters; Villages
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Madagascar -- Toamasina -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara
Language:: English

1935 floods

Creator:: Williams [Leonard Maurice?] ( Photographer )
Publication Date:: 1935
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Toamasina -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara; Afrique -- Madagascar -- Tamatave -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara; Floods; Natural disasters; Villages
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Madagascar -- Toamasina -- Alaotra-Mangoro -- Amparafaravola -- Vohitsara
Language:: English

19th - 20th Century Swahili Popular Verses (MS 47707a)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: circa 1800-1900 AD (circa 1215-1318 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Swahili songs; Oral tradition in literature; Kiswahili mashairi; Songs, Swahili
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Genre:: Songs (LCTGM); Shairi; Wimbo; Shayari; Nyimbo
Language:: Swahili

19th Century Poems from Siu (MS 380450a)

Creator:: Muhammad bin Sheikh Mataka ( Author, Primary ); Sheikh Muhyiddin bin Sheikh bin Qahtwan al-Waily ( contributor ); Umar bin Amin-Ahdali ( contributor ); Maalim Musa ( contributor ); Koti, Ali ( contributor )
Publication Date:: circa 1900 AD (circa 1318 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Religious poetry; Religious belief; Islam; Imani za kidini
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

1YM "Yerima Mustafa Qur’an"

Creator:: Borno scribes [unknown]; Scribes Borno [inconnue] ( contributor ); Borno Schriftgelehrten [unbekannt] ( contributor ); الكتبة بورنو [غير معروف] ( contributor )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:: Qur'an; القرآن الكريم; Coran; Koran; قرآن
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Nigeria -- Borno -- Maiduguri
Genre:: Qur'an
Language:: Arabic; Kanembu

20 pound carp, Panyam Fish Farm

Creator:: Godfrey, David George ( Photographer )
Publication Date:: 1960
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Special Collections
Donor:: Susan Hunt and the Estate of David George Godfrey
Subject Keyword:: Fisheries; Fisheries, Nigerian; Carp
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Nigeria -- Plateau State -- Mangu -- Panyam Fish Farm
Language:: English

29 Swahili Love Songs (MS 380546a)

Creator:: Abedi, Bakari ( Author, Primary ); Nassir, Ahmad ( contributor )
Publication Date:: circa 1966 AD (circa 1386 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Nyimbo; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

2ShK "Shetima Kawo Qur'an"

Creator:: Borno scribes [unknown]; Scribes Borno [inconnue] ( contributor ); Borno Schriftgelehrten [unbekannt] ( contributor ); الكتبة بورنو [غير معروف] ( contributor )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:: Qur'an; القرآن الكريم; Coran; Koran; قرآن
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Nigeria -- Borno -- Maiduguri
Genre:: Qur'an
Language:: Arabic

34 stanzas with notes (MS 380272b)

Creator:: Mgeni bin Faqihi ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: 1964 AD (1384 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Genre:: Poem; Utenzi; Poetry (LCTGM); Translation

4 cards from and about Khartoum

Creator:: Musa, Hassan, b.1951, contemporary visual artist; Musa, Hassan ( contributor ); Institut français (Khartoum) ( contributor ); Elmur, Salah Kamal Eldin, 1966- ( contributor ); المر، صلاح، -1966 ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 2016
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Donor:: Court, Elsbeth
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Sudan -- Khartoum -- Khartoum
Language:: English; French

4 cards from and about Khartoum ( 4 photograph sets )

41. Chief Kazembe with a female missionary [Mabel Shaw] and attendants

Creator:: [Hawkins, Francis H.] ( Photographer )
Publication Date:: c.1915
Publisher:: photograph ( Zambia )
Type:: Photograph
Format:: 1 photograph
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:: Shaw, Mabel; Mwata Kazembe XI, active 1904-1919; Shaw; Mabel (1889-1973); missionary
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Zambia -- Luapula Province -- Mbereshi; Africa -- Northern Rhodesia
Language:: English

5 p.m., the crowd collects near the scene of the finish for dancing : Photos of Baza festival left out of article for Sudan notes and records, vol. 28 (1946/1947)

Creator:: Cumming, D. C.
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: ASC
Holding Location:: This item may only be used inside SOAS. Digitised for archival reference. Users are adived that this item may not be in the public domain. While the physical original may be cited, this digital version may neither be cited nor copied/published until it has clearly and unequivocably passed into the public domain.
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Sudan -- Jibal Maydub -- North Darfur
Language:: English

5 p.m., the crowd collects near the scene of the finish for danci... ( 2 photograph sets )

6 p.m., the crowd collects near the scene of the finish for dancing : Photos of Baza festival left out of article for Sudan notes and records, vol. 28 (1946/1947)

Creator:: Cumming, D. C.
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: ASC
Holding Location:: This item may only be used inside SOAS. Digitised for archival reference. Users are adived that this item may not be in the public domain. While the physical original may be cited, this digital version may neither be cited nor copied/published until it has clearly and unequivocably passed into the public domain.
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Sudan -- Jibal Maydub -- North Darfur
Language:: English

7 p.m., the crowd collects near the scene of the finish for dancing : Photos of Baza festival left out of article for Sudan notes and records, vol. 28 (1946/1947)

Creator:: Cumming, D. C.
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Photograph
Source Institution:: ASC
Holding Location:: This item may only be used inside SOAS. Digitised for archival reference. Users are adived that this item may not be in the public domain. While the physical original may be cited, this digital version may neither be cited nor copied/published until it has clearly and unequivocably passed into the public domain.
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Sudan -- Jibal Maydub -- North Darfur
Language:: English

Abētutā

Creator:: Tašāgar Webē
Publication Date:: 1966
Type:: Book
Format:: [62]p : ;
Source Institution:: SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:: Amharic drama
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Ethiopia; አፍሪቃ -- ኢትዮጵያ
Language:: Amharic

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