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NEWSLETTER Association for the Publication of African Historical Sources History Department, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Issue No. 15, November 2002 Note from David Robinson, Michigan State University, November, 2002 <robins22@msu.edu> This will be a very short newsletter, which is not an indication of the level of activity in editing, translating and publishing critical editions, but perhaps the lateness of my solicitation of contributions. I've also had computer problems, and the newsletter which I intended to send out is unfortunately locked up in another computer which is not cooperating. So I've reconstructed this from the contributions that came in, or in some cases from memory and what I've been able to cobble together. Sorry about that. APAHS will have is business meeting on Friday morning, Dec 6, from 7 to 8:15. It will also have its roundtable chaired by Sydney Kanya-Forstner, is also on Friday, 1 to 3 (Panel V-P4). It has the title, "Keeping momentum through technological strategies," and features David Conrad, Rahmatou Kane, Beverly Mack and DDW van der Bersselaar. Please consult the ASA program on arrival for venues for both events. Many groups will be meeting in the same slot on Friday morning, such as the African Islamic Studies Association. John Hunwick won the Text Prize for his new critical edition and translation of the Tarikh al-Soudan last year (for books published in 1999 and 2000). The title is TIMBUKTU AND THE SONGHAY EMPIRE: AL-SA'DI'S TA'RIKH ALL-SUDAN DOWN TO 1613 AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS, Leiden: Brill 1999. The runner up was Selena Axelrod Winsnes for a new edition of Ludewig Ferdinand Romer's A RELIABLE ACCOUNT OF THE COAST OF GUINEA (1760), London: Oxford, 2000. Again, like the earlier volume of Boyd and Mack on Nana Asma'u, richly deserved. We hope that the ASA Board has appointed a committee to look at works published in 2001 and 2002, for an award to be given next year. Emmanuel Akyeampong was on sabbatical in Ghana last year and was able to attend some of the meetings of the Fontes Historiae Africanae. I hope he can be present for one of our meetings in Washington to give us some feedback on FHA. A report on the meeting, held in Accra Jan 28-31, 2002, is given in the Saharan Studies Association Newsletter, vol X, number 2 for November 2002. For the newsletter, see http://www.ssa.sri.com/news/newsletters/v10n2.pdf An interesting visual document has recently come to my attention, put together by Adama Aly Pam, an archivist at the Senegalese National Archives and graduate of EBAD, the archive-library-documentalist school at the university in Dakar. He has put together a CD-ROM of old post cards from French West Africa. I will let him speak for himself in what follows, in French: "Je suis historien de formation et archiviste paléographe. J'enseigne à l'Ecole des Bibliothécaires Archivistes et Documentalistes de l'Université de Dakar. Je suis Conservateur aux Archives Nationales du Sénégal...et je viens de publier un CD Rom sur la carte postale ancienne sur l'AOF intitulée "Images et Colonies 1900-1960". Il s'agit d'un CD contenant 1515 cartes postales anciennes. Le CD contient contient un catalogue HTML et une base de données classées selon différentes rubriques "Arts et métiers, architecture civile et militaire, lieux de culte, personnages etc". Je l'ai édité personnellement avec les moyens du bords. Ce produit intéresse énormément de monde et je voudrais pouvoir trouver un éditeur et un distributeur en Amérique du Nord. Merci de m'informer sur les possibilités. www.ebad.ucad.sn/pages/pam M.Adama Aly PAM Tl. (221).552.58.68 email : adamapam@hotmail.com Special message from David Henige <dhenige@library.wisc.edu> (reconstructed from DR's memory): The ASA Secretariat has not been efficient about getting HISTORY IN AFRICA out in the last few years. Please send me information about whether or not you have received your copies from 1999 to the present. Now, news from contributors: David Conrad <basitigi@earthlink.net> I've gotten momentarily side-tracked putting together a textbook on the Mande Epic for Hackett Publishers, which I expect to have done in another month or so. Then I'm going full-time on the Introduction to ALMAMI SAMORI: A NINETEENTH-CENTURY WEST AFRICAN CONQUEROR IN MANDE EPIC TRADITION for the U. of Wisconsin African Studies list as a sort of companion volume to Epic Ancestors of the Sunjata Era. Brill has expressed interest in publishing SAFIYATU AND LAJI UMARU: MARITAL DRAMA AND ISLAMIC HEROISM IN MANDE EPIC TRADITION. This is ready to go with its English translation and Maninka language text, but like the Samori book it still lacks its introduction. Robin Law <r.c.c.law@stir.ac.uk> Please note forthcoming publications in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series of the British Academy (both probably to appear in early 2003): 1. 'The History of the Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself' and other writings of Agyeman Prempeh. Edited by E. Akyeampong, A. Adu Boahen, N. Lawler, T.C. McCaskie & I. Wilks. New Series No.6. ISBN 0-19-726261-9 2. Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from the Republic of Mali: Epigraphy, Chronicles and Songhay-Tuareg History. Edited by P.F. de Moraes Farias. New Series No.4. ISBN 0-19-726222-8. Paul Lovejoy <plovejoy@yorku.ca> Unfortunately Paul's message is on the other computer. But here is the web page for the Harriet Tubman Resource Center on the African Diaspora, which describes the many projects in which he is engaged as well as links to similar efforts as well as a link to the Tubman center Newsletter: http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/ David Robinson <robins22@msu.edu> Scott Pennington and I will be giving an update of AODL, www.aodl.org , the West African or now more properly African Online Digital Library, at the Matrix panel scheduled for 9 am on Saturday at the ASA. Scott has been preparing new galleries on some of Boubacar Barry's material on Futa Jalon (through the scanning done at WARC in Dakar) and some of Charles Becker's material on medicine and particularly AIDS. We also have a new gallery on the Murids of Senegal and especially Dakar, thanks to Al Roberts: "Passport to Paradise." A number of other things are in the works, including development of Pulaar language materials. Michael Twaddle <Michael.Twaddle@sas.ac.uk> (actually material sent in at the end of 2001) John Rowe and I hope to finalize the manuscript of our Luganda anthology very shortly and iun fact I hope to visit John In Colorado en route to a conference in February 2002; I also discussed it with a Ugandan publisher - Justus Mugajju - when I was in Uganda in July this.
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