1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Contacts:

mail to: limb@msu.edu

Telephone: (517) 432-6123 ext. 239 Fax: (517) 432-3532

[Library]

Room E224B 100 Library
Michigan State University
East Lansing , MI 48824, USA

[History]
301 Morrill Hall
History Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, 48824 USA

2. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Current appointments:

Africana Bibliographer/Librarian III
Michigan State University
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

Associate Professor, Adjunct
History Department
Michigan State University

Previous appointments:

University of Western Australia 1979-2001, Librarian

Perth Central Metropolitan College, Visiting Lecturer, 1993

3. EDUCATION

1977. B.A. University of Adelaide

1978. B.A. (Hons) in History, University of Adelaide.

1981. Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science, W.A.I.T. (Curtin University)

1998. Ph.D. University of Western Australia (History-African Studies). Advisor: Prof. N.E. Etherington


SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS:

1971 Undergraduate scholarship to Australian National University (declined)

1889 University of Western Australia postgraduate travel grant

1991 University of Western Australia postgraduate travel grant

1992-94 University of Western Australia postgraduate scholarships

 

4. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Teaching, Lectureships, Instruction, Invitations/Visiting Fellowships 

Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Michigan State University, 2001-6

Associate Professor (Adjunct), Michigan State University, 2006-

Recent Teaching course examples:

Graduate:

HST830 'African Historiography' (2008);
HST 990 Diamond Mining: South African Labor & Comparative History (2007)

Undergraduate: HST 201, 364, 484. South/Southern African history:

 

Special courses taught: Conflict in Africa (2005-7); Africa in film.

Instruction to ISSR seminar graduate students, October 2001, September 2002 

Instruction to Visiting South African Literature and Linguistics Faculty, May 2001 

Compton Graduate Fellowship Colloquium, 2004

Visiting Fellow, Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, 1995

Visiting Lecturer, Perth Central Metropolitan College, TAFE, 1993, Library Studies.

Major Committees and Projects

'African e-Journals Project' (ASC MSU/MSU Libraries/MSU Press/international partners), Coordinator

African Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committee, 2008-

Africana Librarians Council Bibliography Committee 2003-2005

Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP), Elected Executive Member, 2002-3

Compton Africa Peace Fellowships Program, Committee (MSU)

Conover-Porter Award Committee 2008-

Peace and Social Justice Studies, Advisory committee (MSU)

Steering Committee (MSU Library)

Strategic Planning Research Committee (UWA)

OPAC Operations Team (UWA)

Membership of Governing Boards/ Coordinating Councils

Africana Librarians Council

Chairperson, November 2006-October 2007

Chairperson-elect (2005-6)

Chairperson of the Bibliography Committee (includes Conover-Porter Award) 2003-2005

Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP), Elected Executive Member, 2002-3

 

H-Net (H-Net is the largest scholarly body in the world involved in Humanities and Social Sciences computer networking. The Executive Council is elected by editors and H-Net staff.)

Executive Council, elected Member, 2000-2002.

Publications Committee, H-Net, Member, 2000-.

PLAN-AFRICA Coordinating Editor, nine different international scholarly online networks, 2000-2004 

Membership of  Professional Associations (past & present)

 

African Studies Association (U.S.)

African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific

Africana Librarians Council

American Historical Association

Australian Society for Labour History

Canadian Association of African Studies

Library Association of Australia/ALIA

South African Historical Association

South African Historical Society

Standing Committee on Library Materials for Africa (UK)

World History Association

 

 

Membership of Editorial Advisory Boards, and Other Advisory Boards

Print
 

Encyclopedia of Colonialism (ABC-Clio, 2000-2003)

Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities (Routledge 2000-)

Innovation (Pietermaritzburg) "Appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa." 

Historia (South African Historican Association, 2004-)

Encyclopedia of South Africa (Lynne Reinner, 2005-)

Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, 2007-

Electronic 

H-SAfrica, 1996-

H-Africa, 1995-2005

Mots pluriels (international, interdisciplinary e-journal on contemporary issues, focusing on Africa) http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP.html

Safundi : The Journal of South African & American Comparative Studies Associate Editor 2001-

Ghana Committee on Technical Connectivity Task Force on Management & Policy (honorary member)

Consultancies and Professional Services

Overseas consultancy for major African scholarly digitization project (2003-)

Referee of articles for scholarly journals: including Journal of Religious History, African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Historia, Kleio, Politikon, Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, Mots pluriels, etc.

Referee of book manuscripts for university presses (Cambridge University Press (2007), South African presses)

Supervisor of doctoral students (three currently)

Examiner (internal and external) of theses (Ph.D and Masters): history, politics, sociology

Peer review referee, National Research Foundation, South Africa, Ohio State University

In-depth consultancies on African studies to colleagues and students in many countries

Historical Consultant for American film on history of the international anti-apartheid movement

 

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MENTORED TO COMPLETION

 

Nokuthula Cele. 2006

Dawne Currey. 2006.

Editorships

Editing of Journals and Series (print and online)

·      Africa Past and Present "a podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora ... The show highlights interesting and significant people, ideas, and discussions in African Studies from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives." (with Dr. Peter Alegi) 2008-.

 

Australian Library Review special issue on "Africa and Area Studies" 1994

·     "AFRICA FORUM", 1998-2005    Editor. Series featuring essays by and interviews with notable Africanists, including Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Jan Vansina, Paul Landau, Alan Cobley, Jon Abbink, and John Edward Philips. Several reprinted with permission in scholarly jourmnals. See:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/africaforum/index.html

·         Mots pluriels no. 13 2000: "New African perspectives and challenges of the future" (co-editor)

·         Innovation (South Africa), June 2002 special issues on libraries and archives of Southern Africa

·         Safundi : The Journal of South African & American Comparative Studies Associate Editor 2001-

 

Editing of Books

Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies. forthcoming.

Selected Works of A. B. Xuma (Cape Town, forthcoming)

(compiler) International Conference on New African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End of the Twentieth  Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 
26-28 November 1999 : Conference abstracts ([Nedlands, W.A.] : The Association, 1999).

(compiler) International Conference on New African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End of the Twentieth  Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 26-28 November 1999 : Conference papers ([Nedlands, W.A.]: The Association, 2000) 4 volumes.

Editing of Online Scholarly Networks

H-Africa (moderated scholarly network on African History and Culture), 1995-2004

Online and Information editor http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/
Journals Tables of Contents Project of H-Africa, 1996-2005 (with Gretchen Walsh, Boston University)

H-SAfrica (moderated scholarly network on Southern African History and Culture), 1999-
Online Editor and Coordinating Reviews editor

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~safrica/
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/about.html#editors

email: plimb@mail.h-net.msu.edu

 

Editing of Major Online Scholarly and Reference Guides

'An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet' a regularly updated and widely-cited and used Internet guide to African studies http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html

 

 

Professional and Scholarly Travel and Involvement

Great Britain (York, London), Zambia, Zimbabwe, 1989 (research)

Melbourne, 1990 (conference)

Melbourne, 1991 (conference)

Cape Town, 1995 (fellowship, research and projects)

San Francisco, 1996 (research and networks)

Oxford, 2000 (conference, business)

Quebec, 2001 (conference)

South Africa (Johannesburg, Pretoria, Mafikeng), 2001 (conference, seminars, research, business)

Harare, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, 2001 (business, projects and book buying)

Botswana, South Africa, July 2001 (book buying, seminar, research)

Cape Town, South Africa, January 2002 (acquisitions, international conference, research)

Toronto, May 2002 (conference)

Oxford and London, June 2002 (conference, business, research)

South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Fort Hare, Durban) March 2003 (consultancy, business)

Belgium (Tervuren), September 2004 (business)

South Africa (Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Hilton) October 2004 (conference, business, research)

South Africa, France, Australia, New Zealand (research, business, May and Sept-November 2005)

Belgium, Portugal, (research, business) October 2006

Nigeria (Enugu, Nsukka, July 2007, business)

Leiden, Bruxelles July 2007 (conferences, business

Switzerland (2008, conference, business)

Select Publications

 

Books & Proceedings

 

Selected Works of A. B. Xuma (Cape Town, forthcoming, 2009)

Indigenous South(ern) African Responses to Colonialism (Leiden: Brill, 2009), with Norman Etherington and Peter Midgely (eds.)

The African National Congress : The Early Years (forthcoming, Pretorial: University of South Africa Press, 2009)

Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies (editor) (Melbourne: Monash University Press; Sydney, forthcoming, July 2008).

Nelson Mandela: A Biography (Greenwood Press: 2008)

Digital Dilemmas and Solutions (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2004)

Apartheid : [a backbone narrative] (digital, 2004: broader project online as "South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy 2007)

(compiler) International Conference on New African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End of the Twentieth  Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 26-28 November 1999 : Conference papers ([Nedlands, W.A.]: The Association, 2000) 4 volumes.

(compiler) International Conference on New African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End of the Twentieth  Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 
26-28 November 1999 : Conference abstracts ([Nedlands, W.A.] : The Association, 1999).

(with Dr Jean-Marie Volet) Bibliography of African Literatures (Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1996; The Scarecrow area bibliographies; 10) 433 pp.

Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo, Personal Papers (Bellville, South Africa: Mayibuye Centre, 1995)

The ANC and Black Workers, 1912-1992: an Annotated Bibliography (London; New Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers, 1993). 380 pp. Widely regarded as the definitive bibliography.

Articles and Chapters in Books

"The ANC and Black Workers" in Norman Etherington (ed.), Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa (Oxford: Hans Zell, 1992), pp. 284-305.

[interview with] Terence Ranger, "The State of African Studies in Britain and Zimbabwe" African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter 1993

"Trends in African Studies in Australian Libraries" in Australian Library Review special issue on Africa and Area Studies v. 11 no. 4 Nov. 1994, pp. 465-76

"Area Studies, Access to Resources and Australian Libraries" in  Australian Library Review special issue on Africa and Area Studies v. 11 no. 4 Nov. 1994, pp. 434-36.

"Black Access to Electronic Research Services in South Africa: Problems and Prospects of Real Change," AFSAAP Review, vol. 18 no. 1 1996, pp.13-17.

"Black Access to Electronic Research Services in South Africa: Problems and Prospects of Real Change," Development Bulletin   (Canberra) v. 39 Oct. 1996

"The Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle of South Africa" AFSAAP Review, vol.18 no.1 1996, pp. 49-50

"'Of Deeds Most Foul and Vile': a Short Comparative History of Robben & Rottnest Penal Islands" in African Studies Association  of Australasia & the Pacific  Review v.20 no.1 June 1998, pp.15-19

"An Australian Historian at the Dawn of Apartheid: Fred Alexander in South Africa, 1949-50" in Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History November 1999

with Jean-Marie Volet, " New African Perspectives: Editorial" Mots pluriels 13,  April 2000

"'Representing the Laboring Classes': African Workers in the African Nationalist Press, 1900-60" in Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari(eds.), South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid (Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000), pp. 79-127

"New Scenarios on Africa, African Studies, and the Internet"  Mots pluriels 18, August, 2001 

"Sol Plaatje's Attitudes to Labour, Empire, and Gender," Sociology, Rand Afrikaans University, 2001 (seminar paper published online)

"Rethinking Sol Plaatje's Attitudes to Empire, Labour and Gender" Critical Arts vol. 16 no. 1 2002

"Early ANC Leaders and the British World: Ambiguities and Identities" Historia 47 no.1 2002, pp. 56-82

"2001 Mafikeng SAHS Conference" AHA Bulletin (Australian Historical Association) no. 94, 2002

"Introduction," to Innovation (Pietermartizburg) 24 2002: pp. 1-3

"Ethical Dilemmas in Southern African Archives and Libraries" Innovation 24 2002, pp. 51-58

"Ethical Dilemmas Facing Africanist Librarians, Archivists and Scholars Today" African Research and Documentation (London) 89 2002, pp. 3-18.

"Accessing African archives, libraries and journals: Partnerships, ethics and equity in the 21st century" African Research and Documentation (London) 90 2002, pp. 29-41.

"HIV/AIDS in South Africa: A Select Bibliography," Society in Transition, 33 (3) 2002, pp. 455-469 [published in late 2003].

"Sol Plaatje Reconsidered" African Studies 62(1) 2003, pp. 33-52.

"Labor" in Melvin E. Page (ed.), Colonialism: an International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 325-328.

"Sol T. Plaatje (1876-1932)" in Melvin E. Page (ed.), Colonialism: an International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 473-474.

"'No People Can Be Expected to Be Loyal under Such Difficulties': Ambiguities and Identities among Early ANC Leaders" Social Dynamics 29(1) 2003, pp. 1-26.

"CAMP and African Newspaper Microfilm Preservation and Digitisation" in Opportunities for Newspaper Preservation and Access in South Africa: Papers Presented at the South African Newspaper Seminar 17-19 March 2003, Cape Town, National Library of South Africa, 2003.

"Recent Developments in African Scholarly e-Resources" in Focus on the Center for Research Libraries. Vol. 23 no. 4 Summer 2004, pp. 8-9

"South Africa: Mining: capitalization and unionization, 1940s-80s," in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London; New York: Routledge, 2005) vol. 2, pp. 1445-1447. 

"Trades Unionism and Nationalism," in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London; New York: Fitzroy Dearborn/Routledge, 2005), vol. 3 pp. 1578-1580. 

"Trade Unions: Postcolonial",  in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London; New York: Routledge, 2005), vol. 3 pp. 1577-1578. 

"Z. K. Matthews (1901-68)" in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London; New York:Routledge, 2005), vol. 2 pp. 955-956. 

"Ezekiel Mphahlele," in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London; New York: Fitzroy Dearborn/Routledge, 2005), vol. 2 pp. 1045-1046. 

"Partnership as a New Paradigm of Reference Librarianship in African Studies" in The Reference Librarian 87/88 2004 pp. 151-162: also published as: D. LeFond and G. Walsh (eds) Research, Reference Servide, and Resources for the Study of Africa (Haworth, 2004), pp. 151-162.

"Ken Saro-Wiwa," in Encyclopedia of the World's MInorities (London: New York: Routledge, 2005). 

"Albert Luthuli" in Encyclopedia of the World's MInorities (London: New York: Routledge, 2005).

"John Garang" in Encyclopedia of the World's MInorities (London: New York: Routledge, 2005).

"Africana Periodicals: Problems and Progress of Collection and Publication in a Globalizing Information Economy" in V. Ewalds and D. Henige (eds.) Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change (Lanhma, MD: Scarecrow Press, May 2005), pp. 125-140.

"The Digitization of Africa," Africa Today (Bloomington, Indiana University Press), Volume 52, Number 2, Winter [January] 2006, pp. 3-19.

"I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindi ezindlwini (Congress' Name is Household)": Politics and Class in the Cape Province during the 1920s," in Historia: Joernaal van die Historiese Genootskap van Suid-Afrika = Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa Volume 51, no. 1 Mei / May 2006 pp. 49-86

"A.B. Xuma," in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, revised edition, online 2006, and later print)

"African Studies Bibliography: A State-of-the-Art Review" [keynote article] Africa Bibliography 2005 (Edinburgh University Press, 2006 [Janaury 2007]), pp. vii-xv

"The anti-apartheid movements in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand" in The International Anti-Apartheid Movement (Pretoria: Unisa Press for South Africa Democracy and Education Trust, 2008), pp. 907-982

"The African National Congress" in Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs eds. Encyclopedia of South Africa (Boulder, forthcoming 2007/8)

"The International Anti-Apartheid Movement" in Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs eds. Encyclopedia of South Africa (Boulder, forthcoming 2007/8)

"Luthuli, Albert John" in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"Sachs, Albie" in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"First, Ruth" in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"Mandela, Nelson" in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"Plaatje, Sol" in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"Slovo, Joe" in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"Huddleston, Trevor", in Encyclopedia of African Thought (forthcoming, Routledge 2007/8)

"Mainstreaming African Digital Resources for Libraries and Scholars: Politics, Expropriation, and Partnership in African Digital Projects" Innovation 34 2007: special issue on 'The politics of digital initiatives concerning Africa', edited by Alfred Kagan.

"Early African Political Leaders in South Africa and the Ambiguous Legacies of British Imperialism" in Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies. (forthcoming, 2008)

Dissertations and Theses 

"The African National Congress and black workers in South Africa: continuity and change in their relationships before 1940."   Ph.D., University of Western Australia, 1997

"The Fall of the Front Populaire : An Analysis of Contemporary Interpretations." Thesis (B.A. Hons.) Department of History, University of Adelaide, 1978 

Bibliographic Columns

Southern African Review of Books (Cape Town) 1995-1996  (invited special regular column)

Edited Issues of Journals

Australian Library Review (special issue on Africa and Area Studies) v. 11 no. 4 Nov. 1994

Mots pluriels (electronic journal on contemporary issues) no.13 April 2000: "New African perspectives and challenges of the future" (with Dr. Jean-Marie Volet)

African Rural and Urban Studies: special issue on “The Internet and Africa: Rural and Urban Dimensions” (forthcoming, 2003)

Innovation (Pietermartizburg) no. 24 2002

Edited Pamphlets

Raymond Suttner, South Africa, Apartheid In Crisis (Perth: WACARE, 1990) (co-editor)

Conference and seminar papers and presentations

 

2007

Roundtable presentation on ''African Writing, African Publishing, African Repositories: Globalization & Beyond' at AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 50th ANNUAL MEETING, New York, October-2007.

Discussant, First Annual MSU African Studies Graduate Student Conference, September 28-29 2007, Panel on "Religion in Politics, Art in History, & Empire on the Periphery"

"Strategic Partnership Panel Report: Nigeria" September 27, 2007 Panel discussion with Nwando Achebe, Peter Limb, and Chidozie Amusie, MSU African Studies Center Brown Bag Series



2006

 

"Anti-Apartheid, Anti-Racist Movements in Australia & New Zealand, ca. 1930s-1994: Origins and Insights". seminar, UWA November 2006.

"Advances in the Digitization of Africa: African and American Projects" seminar to the Musee d'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, October 2006

"Politics, Expropriation, and Partnership in African Digital Projects" paper to the Workshop on "The Politics of Digital Projects in Africa" University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, August 2006.

 

2005

"I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindi ezindlwini (Congress' Name is Household)": Politics and Labor in 1920s South Africa" paper to the seminar of the African History Research Group, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, December 2005

"The Digitization of Africa, or, Reflections on African Studies in the "Belly of the Beast." seminar paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, September, 2005.

2004

"Apartheid, Solidarity, and Globalisation: Lessons from the History of the Anti-Apartheid Movements," paper to the African Studies Center Michigan State University, Brown Bag series, Oct. 2004.

"Apartheid, Solidarity, and Globalisation: Lessons from the History of the Anti-Apartheid Movements," paper to the International Conference on a Decade of Freedom and the International Anti-Apartheid Movements, Durban, South Africa,10-13 October 2004. http://www.anc.org.za/un/conference/

"Apartheid, Solidarity, & Globalisation" seminar paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, September, 2004.

2003

"Africa and World History" seminar paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, October, 2003.

"CAMP and African Newspaper Microfilm Preservation and Digitisation" paper to SA Newspaper Seminar, "Opportunities for Newspaper Preservation and Access in South Africa," National Library of South Africa, March 2003.

"Scholarly Book Reviewing: History, Electronic Developments, and the Future" paper to Panel on Making Electronic Scholarship (chair: Harold Marcus), American Historical Association annual conference, Chicago, January 2003.

2002

"The African National Congress and the Indian National Congresses: A comparative history of strategies, relationships and identities," paper to African Studies Association annual conference, Washington DC, December 2002

"'Class, Nation and Gender in South Africa'" paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia seminar, November 2002

"From the Mahatma to Mandela: a Comparison of the African National Congress and the Indian National Congress," paper to combined seminar of the South Asian Research Unit and the School of Social Sciences, Curtin University, November 2002

"'Attitudes to Class, Nation and Gender in the Early African National Congress (ANC)'" paper to 'Class, Gender, and Ideology', Twenty-Fourth Annual North American Labor History Conference Wayne State University, Detroit, October 17-19, 2002

"Accessing African Archives, Libraries, & Journals: Partnerships, Ethics and Equity in the 21st Century," paper to AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, University of Oxford, 25-26 June 2002 Conference to mark 40th anniversary of the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (SCOLMA) (invited)

"Ambiguous Loyalties and Identities among ANC Leaders," paper to the Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Canada, May 2002

"Ethical Dilemmas Facing Africanists Today: The Document Drain," paper to University of Michigan African Studies Group Workshop, Ann Arbor, February 2002

"The Ambiguities of British Empire Loyalism and Identities in the Politics and Journalism of Early ANC Leaders," paper to the 'International History Conference on the British Empire and the Creation of British Identities,' University of Cape Town, January 9-11, 2002

2001

"Identities, Empires, and Ambiguities in South Africa," paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, 5-December, 2002.

"H-Africa and Associated Networks: the Development of the Review Process, 1995-2001", (presentation) Affiliated meetings, Houston, ASA, November 2001

[with Joe Lauer] "Resources on Africa: New Developments," seminar to African Studies Center, Michigan State University, September 2001 (presentation)

"Changing Paradigms of Libraries, e-Publishing, Partnerships, and a New Role for Librarians," paper to the University of Zimbabwe Library faculty, August 2001

"Rethinking Early ANC Attitude to Workers: Sol Plaatje’s Attitudes to Labour, Empire, and Gender,” seminar paper, RAU Sociology Seminar series, Sociology Dept., Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, July 2001 

"New Perspectives an Africa's Oldest Liberation Movement: ANC Studies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," seminar paper to University of South Africa, History Department, July 2001

"African Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Net: Partner or Perish?," paper to University of Botswana faculty, July 2001

Conference Report, to the South African Historical Society Conference, Mafikeng, July 2001 (invited)

"The 'Other' Sol Plaatje: Rethinking Plaatje's Attitudes to Empire, Labor and Gender," paper to the South African Historical Society Biennial Conference, Mafikeng, South Africa, July 2001

"The Other Sol Plaatje" paper to the Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, Quebec Université, Quebec Cité, Canada, May 2001

2000

"New scenarios on Africa, African Studies, and the Net," paper to 'Africa 2000: Links, Land, and Identities' Conference of the Curtin Africa Teaching and Research Group and African Studies Centre of Western Australia, in collaboration with the John Curtin International Institute, Perth, July, 2000 

"Africa and the Net: the H-Africa Family of Scholarly Discussion Lists," paper to 'The Electronic Future: Africa on the Net' conference, 38th Annual General Meeting of the Standing Conference on Library materials on Africa (SCOLMA), Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, June 2000

"Africa and the Internet: Progress and Problems with Networking African Studies" seminar to African Studies Center, Michigan State University, June 2000

1999

"Secrecy, Solidarity, and Survival: Political Tactics and Glasnost in the Early History and Historiography of the ANC" paper to South African Historical Society biennial conference, University of the Western Cape, July 1999 (also presented at History Dept. Seminar, Rhodes University, July 1999)

"'Thrilling Stories of Bloody Encounters': Representations of Workers, and References to History, in the South African Black Press, 1897-1997" Govan Mbeki Centre Seminar, University of Fort Hare, July 1999

Pre-1999 (selected)

"Representations of Labour, and References to History, in the South African Black Press, 1897-1997" paper to AFSAAP Annual Conference, Melbourne, June 1998

"Black South Africans' Access to the Internet," African Studies Association (U.S.) Annual Conference, San Francisco, November 1996

Paper to Panel on 'Contemporary South Africa' with Joan Wardrop, Jabu Matsebula, and Tim Dauth

"Alliance Strengthened or Diminished? Relationships between Labour and African Nationalist Movements," to International Conference on Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa, University of Melbourne, 1992. Published at: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37/069.html

"Worker-Nationalists, Nationalist-Workers, or Just Plain Workers? The ANC and Black Workers" Conference on 'Making Peace in Rapidly Changing Africa' University of Western Australia, 1991

"Workers, the ANC & the Politics of Change in South Africa" AFSAAP, Deakin University, 1990

"South African Labour History: Some Historiographical Sources and   Ideological Battles" paper to African Seminar, African Research Institute, La Trobe University, 1987

Chairing of Conference Panels, Roundtables, and Meetings (selected)

Roundtable: 'African Writing, African Publishing, African Repositories: Globalization & Beyond' at AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 50th ANNUAL MEETING on '21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights', New York, October-2007, with Walter Bgoya, African Books Collective, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, U of Illinois at Chicago, Ruby Bell-Gam, U of California-Los Angeles, Peter Limb, Michigan State U, andAlfred Kagan, U of Illinois.

Panel on "Great Treks and Transformations in Southern African History" African Studies Association annual conference, New Orleans, November 2004

Roundtable panel on "African e-Publishing and Access," African Studies Association annual conference, Washington DC, December 2002

Seminar by Dr. Charles Eaton (on contract farming in Africa) to Michigan State University African Studies Center, July 2002

Seminar by Professor Thomas Turner (University of Rwanda) (on war and peace in the Great Lakes of Africa) to Michigan State University African Studies Center, August 2002

Seminar by Professor Jeremy Seeking (Cape Town), to Michigan State University African Studies Center, May 2002

H-Africa Meetings (two), African Studies Association annual conference, Houston, Texas, 2001

'Africa and the Internet: L'Afrique et l'Internet' at Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, Quebec Universite,  May 2001

Conference Report, South African Historical Society Biennial Conference, Mafikeng, July 2001 (invited)

'Southern Africa In Transition' at Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, University of Alberta, May 2000

'The Press in Africa' (panel 34) and 'ANC Biography & Iconography' (Panel 75) at International Conference on New African Perspectives, African Studies Association of Australasia, University of Western Australia, Perth, 26-28 Nov. 1999

'Gender In Southern Africa' and 'Labour in South Africa' panels at African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference (AFSAAP '98), Melbourne, Australia, June 1998

Selected Book Reviews

(i) On Africa (see also 'Southern Africa' and 'Libraries')

Bibliographic Surveys and Review Articles

"Across North-West Africa in a Dictionary": [review article of: Anthony Pazzanita, Historical Dictionary of Mauritania. 2nd ed.; Pascal James Imperato, Historical Dictionary of Mali. 3rd ed., Both: Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996 in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review 1998

"African Studies on the Net: Update" African Studies Association of Australasia and The Pacific Review and Newsletter Volume XXII Number 1 June 2000, p. 84

"African Historical Dictionaries: Quo Vadis?": Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Richard A.Lobban ...., in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter

"Condensing History" [review article of: Hector Blackhurst, East and Northeast Africa Bibliography (Scarecrow Area Bibliographies, 7), 1996; Kenneth J. Perkins, Historical dictionary of Tunisia   2nd edition, 1997; Lawrence Rupley and Daniel Miles McFarland, Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso (African Historical Dictionaries, 74) 2nd edition, 1998; Christopher Saunders  and Nicoholas Southey, Historical Dictionary of South Africa (African Historical Dictionaries, 37) , 2000 and Thomas Kerlin Park, Historical Dictionary of Morocco (African Historical Dictionaries Series, 71), 1996: all Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, in The Australasian Review of African Studies 23 1 June 2001

McIlwaine, John, Africa: a Guide to Reference Material (London: H. Zell, 1993); in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter

"New Books from West Africa": W.E.F. Ward, My Africa (Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 1991); and C. Onyeka Nwanunobi, African Social Institutions (Nsukka) in AFSAAP Review

"Recent Reference Works & Serials from Africa": Index of African Social Science Periodical Articles (CODESRIA, 1989) vol. 1,  in AFSAAP Review June 1991, pp. 33-34

Selected Individual Reviews on Africa

Arhin, Kwame(Arhin Brempong). Transformations and Traditional Rule in Ghana (1951-1996) Accra: Sedco, 2001 [2002]. African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, pp. 31-32.

Badsha, Omar ed., Guy Tillim & O. Badsha, photographs, Julia Maxted, text. Amulets & Dreams: Youth, War & Change in Africa. (Pretoria: South African History Online in cooperation with Institute for Security Studies and Unisa Press, 2002), African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, pp. 32-33.

Baker, Philip (comp.), International directory of African studies research 3rd ed (London: Zell, 1994), AFSAAP Review 1995

Brooks, Philip (director). 6000 A Day: An Account of a Catastrophe Foretold. Paris: Dominant 7/Arte in association with Steps for the Future; Brooklyn: First Run/Icarus Films, 2001. Video. Reviewed for H-SAfrica, May 2004.

Chabal, Patrick, The Post-Colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (Witwatersrand University Press, 1996), in African Book Publishing Record 1997

Chambua, Samuel E.. Democratic Participation in Tanzania: The Voices of Workers Representatives. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record 2004.

Chami, F., Pwiti, G. & Radimilahy, C., eds. Climate change, trade and modes of production in sub-Saharan Africa, in African Book Publishing Record 2005.

Chole, E., Democratisation Processes in Africa. Problems and Prospects  (CODESRIA, 1995), in African Book Publishing Record 2000

Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold [film review] (New York: First Run/Icarus Films, 1996), Published by H-AfrLitCine (February, 2000)  http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/exhibit/showrev.cgi?path=184

Collins, Robert O. The Waters of the Nile: an Annotated Bibliography  (London: Zell) in African Studies Association of Australasia & the  Pacific Review & Newsletter

Eggers, Ellen K. Historical Dictionaryof Burundi. 2nd ed. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 1997. African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter v. 20 no. 1 June 1998

Ekeh, Peter P. ed. Warri City and British Colonial Rule in Western Niger Delta. Buffalo, NY [printed Ibadan, Nigeria]: Urhobo Historical Society, 2004 [2005], inAfrican Book Publishing Record, 2006

Freeman-Grenvile, G.S.P., The New Atlas of African History (New York:  Simon & Shuster, 1991) in  African Studies Association of Australasia  & the Pacific Review & Newsletter

French, Tom, The SCOLMA Directory of Libraries and Special Collections on Africa in the United Kingdom and in Europe 5th ed.  London ; New York : Zell, 1993, in AFSAAP Review 1994

Severino Fuli Boki Tombe Ga'le. Shaping a Free Southern Sudan: Memoirs of Our Struggle 1934-1985. [Torit; Limuru (printed)]: Loa Catholic Mission Council, 2002, African Book Publishing Record, 2004

Gertzel, Cherry, Uganda: an Annotated Bibliography of Source Materials: with particular reference to the period since 1971 (London: H. Zell, 1991) in AFSAAP Review

Gordon, David M., Nachituti's gift : economy, society, and environment in central Africa Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, Choice 2006.

Hall, David E.. African Acronyms and Abbreviations: a Handbook. (London: Mansell, 1996), Australian Library Review 1996

Hasan, Yusuf and Richard Gray, Editors. Religion and conflict in Sudan: Papers from an International Conference at Yale, May 1999. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2002. (Faith in Sudan; no. 12.) African Book Publishing Record, 2004

Kessel, I. van (ed.). Merchants, missionaries & migrants : 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations. Amsterdam : KIT Publishers ; Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record vol. 29(2) 2003, p. 117.

Lems-Dworkin, Carol. African Music: a Pan-African Annotated Bibliography (London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1993) in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter

Lulat, Y. G.-M. A history of African higher education from antiquity to the present : a critical synthesis Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005., Choice April 2006.

McIlwaine, John, Africa: a Guide to Reference Material (London: Hans Zell, 1993) in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter

McIlwaine, John, Africa: A Guide to Reference Material 2nd revised and expanded edition 2007, in African Book Publishing Record forthcoming

Ama Mazama (ed.), Africa in the 21st century: toward a new future, Routledge, 2007, forthcoming

Moser, Gerald, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa (London ; New York : Hans Zell Publishers, 1993) in Australian Library Review 

Mukiibi, Joseph. Agriculture in Uganda. 4 volumes (Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2001) in African Book Publishing Record vol. 29(3) 2003, p. 233.

Nunez, Benjamin, Dictionary of Portuguese-African Civilization v.1-2  (London: Zell) in Australian Library Review.

Price, Helen, Hewson, Colin, Blake, David. Theses on Africa, 1976-88,  in Australian Library Review.

Segal, Aaron, Atlas of International Migration, (London: Hans Zell, 1993)  in Australian Library Review.

Sicherman, Carol, Ngugi wa Thion'go: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (London: Zell) in Australian Library Review.

Smyth, Annie and Adam Seftel (editors),  Tanzania. The Story of Julius Nyerere. (Kampala: Fountain Publ., 1999)  in  African Book Publishing Record 2001

Steinhart, Edward I., Conflict and Collaboration in the Kingdoms of Western Uganda.   (Kampala: Fountain Publ., 1999)  [reprint: 1st. publ. 1977]  in  African Book Publishing Record 2001

Sturges, Paul, and Neill, Richard. The Quiet Struggle: Information and Libraries for the People of Africa. 2nd ed. London: Mansell, 1998, in  Australian Library Journal May 48 (2) 1999 201-2.

Olufemi Vaughan (editor).Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa. Ibadan: Sefer, 2003, in African Book Publishing Record vol. 30 2004.

Ernest J. Wilson and Kelvin R. Wong, eds. Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion. Boulder: Lynne Rienner 2007, Canadian Journal of African Studies, forthcoming 2008

Young, Josiah U., African Theology: a Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography(Greenwood Press) in Australian Library Review.

Zegeye, A. and Ishemo S. (ed.), Forced Labour and Migration: Patterns of Movement within Africa (London: H. Zell, 1989) in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter

Zell, Hans M. (ed.), The African Studies Companion  in AFSAAP Review

(ii). Reviews on South and Southern Africa

O. Akinkugbe and Kunene, V. Education financing and budgetary reforms in Africa: The Swaziland Case Study CODESRIA, 2001, in African Book Publishing Record vol. 29(2) 2003, p. 115.

Peter Alegi Laduma! Soccer, Politics and Society in South Africa Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004, in African Book Publishing Record 2007? .

Peter Alexander, Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid: Labour and Politics in South Africa 1939-48 (Oxford: J. Currey 2000) in Journal of Southern African Studies vol.27 no.4 Dec. 2001 pp. 869-71

Simon Bekker and David Carlton, eds. Racism, Xenophobia and Ethnic Conflict. (Durban: Indicator South Africa, 1996), in African Book Publishing Record 1997.

Bergh, Johan S. & Fred Morton, "To make them serve..." The 1871 Transvaal Commission on African labour. African Book Publishing Record, 2005.

Bhana, Surendra and Goolam Vahed. The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005, forthcoming 2006.

George Bizos. No One to Blame? : In Pursuit of Justice in South Africa.  (Cape Town: David Philip; Cape Town: Mayibuye Books, 1998), in African Book Publishing Record 

Trudie Bloem, Krotoa-Eva  (Cape Town: Kwela Books,1999) in  African Book Publishing Record 2000.

Michael Bourdillon (ed.), Earning a Life: Working children in Zimbabwe Harare: Weaver Press, 2000, African Book Publishing Record 2002

Marj Brown, Justin Erasmus, Rosalie Kingwill and Monty Roodt, A Long Way Home: Land Restitution in South Africa (Cape Town: IDASA, 1998) in African Book Publishing Review.

Fran Buntman, Robben Island and prisoner resistance to apartheid. (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 31, Number 3, September 2005, pp. 666-668.

Masauko Chipembere, Hero of the Nation: Chipembere of Malawi: An Autobiography. (Blantyre: Kachere, 2002), in African Book Publishing Record 2002

Brenda Cooper and Andrew Steyn, eds. Transgressing Boundaries:   New Directions in the Study of Culture in Africa (Cape Town: UCT Press, 1996), in African Book Publishing Record 1997

Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundlingh, and Mary-Lynn Suttie. (eds.) Writing a wider war : rethinking gender, race, and identity in the South African War, 1899-1902. Athens : Ohio University Press ; Cape Town : David Philip, 2002. Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 38 no. 1 2004, pp. 168-170.

Dhupelia-Mesthrie Gandhi's prisoner? The life of Gandhi's son Manilal. in African Book Publishing Record

Allison Drew (ed.), South Africa's Radical Tradition (Cape Town: Mayibuye Books;  Buchu Books; UCT Press, 1996) in South African Historical Journal, no. 35 Nov 1996 [published June 1997], pp.237-238

Dorothy Driver [et al.], Nadine Gordimer: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (London: H. Zell) in Australian Library Review.11 (4) 1994

Robert R. Edgar and Hilary Sapire. African Apocalypse: The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet. Witwatersrand University Press, 1999 H-SAfrica (March, 2000) 
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16390953064877

Charles H. Feinstein. An Economic History of South Africa (Cambridge, 2005), African Studies Review v. 49 no. 3 December 2006, pp. 104-106.

Linda Fortune The House in Tyne Street: Childhood Memories of District Six  (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 1996) in African Book Publishing Record 1997 

Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner eds. Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1995) in African Book Publishing Record 1997

Sheila Gastrow (ed.), Who's Who in South African Politics 3rd. ed. AFSAAP Newsletter June 1991

George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba : South African National Gallery, 27.4.1996 - 28.7.1996. [Bellville]: Mayibuye Books : SANG, 1996 in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 1998

Halton Cheadle [firm]... [et al.], Current Labour Law 1995 : a Review of Recent Developments in Key Areas of Labour Law (Cape Town: Juta, 1995),in African Book Publishing Record  1997

Iris Hill and Alex Harris (eds.) Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa  (London, IDAF) in  Australian Journal of Politics and History.

Baruch Hirson, Yours for the Union: Class and Community  Struggles in South Africa, 1930-47 (London: Zed Press, 1989) in Journal of Modern African Studies v. 29 1991

Chenjerai Hove. Palaver Finish. Harare: Weaver, 2002, African Book Publishing Record

Jacqueline A. Kalley, Apartheid in South African Libraries: The Transvaal Experience. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000  MCB journals

E.F. Kotze, ed. S A Linguistiek 1995= S A Linguistics 1995 (Port Elizabeth: University of Port Elizabeth, 1996),  African Book Publishing Record 1997

Paul La Hausse. Restless identities : signatures of nationalism, Zulu ethnicity and history in the lives of Petros Lamula (c.1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936). Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, 2000. Canadian Journal of African Studies vol. 37(1) 2003, pp. 171-173.

Debbie Landmann, ed. A Select Index to South African Literature in English: 1995 (Grahamstown: National English Literary Museum, 1996), in African Book Publishing Record 1997

Richard Levin When the Sleeping Grass Awakens :  [Land and Power in Swaziland]  (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University  Press, 1997) African Book Publishing Record 1998

Tom Lodge and Bill Nasson, All, Here, and Now: Black Politics in South Africa in Journal of Modern African Studies  (Cambridge University Press) 1993

J. Loos, Echoes of slavery : voices from South Africa's past (D. Philip, 2004) in African Book Publishing Record 31(4) 2005

Gitanjali Maharaj (ed.). Between unity and diversity : essays on nation-building in post- apartheid South Africa (Cape Town : Idasa : D. Philip, 1999) in African Book Publishing Record (2001)

John Mw. Makumbe. Democracy and Development in Zimbabwe: Constraints of Decentralisation.  Harare: SAPES Books, 1998. African Book Publishing Record 2000

Isaac Maposa. Land Reform in Zimbabwe: an Inquiry into the Land   Acquisition Act (1992) (Harare: Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, 1995), African Book Publishing Record 1997

Sabine Marschall. Community Mural Art in South Africa. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2002. African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, pp. 18-19.

Sabine Marschall & Brian Kearney. Opportunities for relevance: architecture in the new South Africa. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2000. African Book Publishing Record 2004

John Mason, Social death and resurrection : slavery and emancipation in South Africa (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003) Itinerario (Leiden) vol. 29(2) 2005, pp. 112-114.

John Masson. Jacob Marengo: An Early Resistance Hero of Namibia. Windhoek: Out of Africa Publishers, 2001. African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, p. 19.

Azaria J.C. Mbatha, Within Loving Memory of the Century: An Autobiography (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005), in African Book Publishing Record 2007

Govan Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island (Cape Town, Philip) AFSAAP Review

Thabo Mbeki, Africa: the Time Has Come: Selected Speeches. Cape Town:  Tafelberg; Johannesburg: Mafube, 1998, in African Book Publishing Record  2000

Janice McLaughlin On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's  Liberation War. (Harare: Baobab Books, 1996), in African Book Publishing  Record 1998

Francis Meli, South Africa Belong to Us: a History of the ANC   (London: James Currey, 1988) in Australian Journal of Politics and History  v. 36. 1991

Greg Mills, ed.  South Africa and the Future of the Non-Aligned Movement.  Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs, 1998  in African Book Publishing Record 1999

A.S. Mlambo, E.S. Pangeti, and I. Phimister. Zimbabwe: A History of Manufacturing, 1890-1995. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000 in African Book Publishing Record 2002.

Renate Morgenstern, comp., Central Register of Theses on Namibia. National Archives of Namibia, 1999 in African Book Publishing Record 2000

Glenn Moss (ed.), South Africa: Contemporary Analysis (London: Zell, 1989),  AFSAAP Review

Fred Morton, A. Murray, and J. Ramsay. Historical Dictionary of Botswana. 3rd ed.  Scarecrow Press, 1996, in African Studies Association of Australasia   & the Pacific Review 2001.

Sam Moyo, The Land Question in Zimbabwe (Harare: Sapes, 1995), African Book Publishing Record  1997.

Bakili Muluzi, Democracy with a Price: the History of Malawi since 1900. Blantyre: Jhango Heinemann, 1999, African Book Publishing Record (2001)

Bruce Murray and Christopher Merrett. Caught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket. (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2004), in African Book Publishing Record 2007

Reuben and Naomi Musiker, Southern Africa bibliography Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1996 (Scarecrow area bibliographies ; no. 11)  in AFSAAP Review 22 no. 2 December 2000.

Namibia 1884-1984: Readings in Namibia's History and Society (London: UN Institute) in Australian Journal of Politics and History  v. 36. 1991

H. D. Namuhuja. The Ondonga Royal Kings. Windhoek: Out of Africa Publishers, 2002. African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, p. 20.

Lieb Nieuwoudt and Jan Groenewald, eds. The Challenge of Change: Agriculture, Land and the South African Economy. Scottsville: University of Natal Press, 2003, African Book Publishing Record 2007?

Tim Nuttall ... [et al.],  From Apartheid to Democracy: South Africa, 1948-1994. Shuter & Shooter, 1998 in African Book Publishing Record 2000

Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael (editors). Senses of culture : South African culture studies. Oxford University Press, 2000, in African Book Publishing Record 2002.

Nigel Penn. The forgotten frontier: colonist and Khoisan on the cape's northern frontier in the 18th century. Ohio University/Double Storey, 2006. Choice, March 2007

Karen Press, The Little Museum of Working Life University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, , in African Book Publishing Record forthcoming 2007

Brian Raftopoulos and Tsuneo Yoshikuni, eds. Sites of Struggle: Essays in Zimbabwe's Urban History.
Harare: Weaver Press, 1999, in African Book Publishing Record 2002

Randall M. Packard, White Plague, Black Labour: Tuberculosis and the Political economy of health and disease in South Africa. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989) in AFSAAP Review

Visnu Padayachee (ed) The Development Decade? Economic & Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004. HSRC, in African Book Publishing Record forthcoming 2007

Jeff Ramsay, Barry Morton and Fred Morton, Historical Dictionary of Botswana. 3rd ed. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996.  in African Studies Association of Australasia  & the Pacific Review 2000

Terence Ranger. Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe. Indiana UP, 1999 in Interventions: International Journal of  Postcolonial Studies vol. 3 no. 3 2001

J. W. F. van Rooyen Portfolio of Partnership: An Analysis of Labour Relations in a Transitional Society: Namibia. (Windhoek: Gamsberg   Macmillan, 1996) in African Book Publishing Record 1998

Fransie Rossouw, A South African Bibliography to the Year 1925 v.5 in African Book Publishing Record.

Carmel Schrire. Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press; Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record vol. 29(2) 2003, pp. 113-114.

Ben Shephard. Kitty and the Prince. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2003, APBR, 2005

Vladimir Shubin, ANC: A View from Moscow (Bellville: Mayibuye Books, 1999) in Social Dynamics vol.25 no. 2 1999, pp. 143-145.

Beth Strachan, compiler. South Africa's Second Democratic Elections 1999: An Annotated Bibliography. Auckland Park, South Africa: EISA, 2001. African Book Publishing Record 2004

Julie Strauss, ed. A Select Index to South African Literature in   English 1992.  (Grahamstown: National English Literary Museum,  1993), African Book Publishing Record 

Newell M. Stultz, South Africa as Apartheid Ends, in Australian  Library Review. 11 (4) 1994

Sampie Terreblanche. A History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2002, African Studies Quarterly (Florida) vol. 8 no. 3 2006.

They Shaped Our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Cape Town: Human and Rousseau, 1999 in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 2002

Humphrey Tyler, Life in the Time of Sharpeville: and Wayward   Seeds of a New South Africa (Cape Town: Kwela Books, 1995),  in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 1997

Agnes van Dyk A History of Nursing in Namibia. (Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, 1997), in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 1998

Johan van Wyk,, Constructs of Identity and Difference in South African Literature Durban: CSSALL (University of Durban-Westville, 1995, in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 1997

Carin Vijfhuizen 'The People You Live With': Gender identities and social practices, beliefs and power in the livelihoods of Ndau women and men in a village with an irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe Harare: Weaver Press, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) vol. 30 no. 3 2004.

Karl von Holdt Transition from Below: Forging Trade Unionism and Workplace Change. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2003, in African Book Publishing Record 2008?.

Peter Walshe Prophetic Christianity and the Liberation Movement in South Africa  (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 1995) in African Book Publishing Record 1997.

Webster, Edward and Karl von Holdt (eds.), Beyond the apartheid workplace : studies in transition (Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005), in African Book Publishing Record 2007.

Paul Weinberg. Travelling Light. (Scottsville: University of Kwazulu Natal Press, 2004), in African Book Publishing Record 2007

Sheila Willet et al. The Khoe And San. An Annotated Bibliography. Vol.1 Gaborone: Lightbooks, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record vol. 29(3) 2003, p. 233.

Mary Witoshynsky. The Water Harvester: Episodes from the Inspired Life of Zephaniah Phiri. Harare: Weaver Press, 2000, in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 2002

Volker Wild, Profit Not for Profit's Sake : Historyand Business Culture of African Entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe. Harare: Baobab Books, 1997, in African Book Publishing Record (Oxford) 1998

Lovemore M. Zinyama ed. Harare : the growth and problems of the city. Harare, Zimbabwe : University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1993, in African Book Publishing Record 1997


(iii) On Libraries and Publishing (selected)

 

Altbach, Philip G. (ed.) Publishing and Development in the Third World  (London ; New York :H. Zell, 1991) in Australian Library Review.

Altbach, Philp G. and Damtew Teferra (eds.), Publishing in African Languages: Challenges and Prospects. (Boston: Bellagio Studies in Publishing, 1999) H-AfrLitCine@h-net.msu.edu (July, 2000)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12183964642078

Amaeshi, Basil (ed.). Classical Readings in African Library Development Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003, in Online Information Review, 2004

Armstrong, C.J. and Andrew Large, Manual of Online Search Strategies. Volume 3: Humanities and Social Sciences Online in Information Review Volume 26 Number 1 2002 pp. 57-66.

Anderson, Charles R. Puzzles and Essays from the Exchange: Tricky Reference Questions. Haworth Press, 2003, Online Information Review vol. 28(5) 2004, pp. 380-381.

Bruce, Harry et al (eds.) Emerging Frameworks and Methods: CoLIS 4 : proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Seattle, WA, USA, July 21- 25, 2002. Greenwood Village, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2002. 2003, Online Information Review]

CD-ROM for African Research Needs: Guidelines for Selecting Databases edited by Lisbeth Levey, Margaret E. Ngwira and Helga Patrikios (Washington DC: Sub-Saharan Africa Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 1996) in Logos (London) v.8 no. 1 1996

Cohen, Eli (ed.). Challenges of information technology education in the 21st century. Hershey, PA : Idea Group Pub., 2002, in Online Information Review 27(5) 2003, pp. 368-369

DeWitt, Donald L. (ed.). Evaluating the Twenty-First Century Library: The Association of Research Libraries New Measures Initiative, 1997-2001. New York: Haworth Press, 2002. Also published as: Journal of Library Administration 35: 4 (2001), in Online Information Review 27(5) 2003, pp. 370-371.

Dick, Archie L. The philosophy, politics, and economics of information. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2002, African Book Publishing Record 2005.

Driscoll, Lori. Electronic Reserve: A Manual and Guide for Library Staff Members. Binghamton: Haworth Information Press, 2004. Emerald journals 2005

Fenton, Thomas P., (ed) Third World Resource Directory 1994-95 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994) Australian Library Review.11 (4) 1994

Claude Ghaoui [editor] E-Education Applications: Human Factors and Innovative Approaches (Hershey, PA; London: Information Science Publishing, 2004) Online Information Review 2005

Harum, Susan & Michael Twidale, eds. Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries (Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois, 2000) Online Information Review 25 1 2001 pp. 66-74

Ifidon, Sam E., Collection Development in African University Libraries: Challenges and Frustrations (African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1990) in Australian Library Review 1991.

Jacobson, Trudi E. and Helene C. Williams, eds. Teaching the New Library to Today's Users: Reaching International, Minority, Senior Citizens, Gay/Lesbian, First Generation, At-Risk, Graduate and Returning Students, and Distance Learners. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2000. in Library Link 2001

Kalley, Jacqueline A. Apartheid in South African Libraries: The Transvaal Experience. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000  MCB journals

Lancaster, F.W. and Amy Warner. Intelligent Technologies in Library and Information Service Applications. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2001 in The Electronic Library. (Oxford) Vol. 20, no. 6 2002. pp. 519-20

Membrey, D.J. (ed.), Nothing to Read? The Crisis of Document Provision in the Third World (Birmingham: Library Association, 1990) in Australian Library Review

Olden, Anthony, Libraries in Africa: Pioneers, Policies, Problems  (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1995) in Australian Library Review 2000

Organizational information systems in the context of globalization Kluwer Academic Publishers in Library Review.

Pace, Andrew K. The Ultimate digital library: where the new information players meet. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003, in Online Information Review, vol. 28 no. 4 2004

Quaratiello, Arlene R. The College Student's Research Companion Second Edition (Updated for 2000) (Neal-Schuman Publishers)  in Australian Library Review vol 50 issue 2 2001

Qin, J.  and J. Norton (eds.), Knowledge Discovery in Bibliographic Databases (special issue of Library Trends,  48(1) 1999) in Online Information Review Volume 24 no. 5 2000, pp. 401-411

Sherman, Chris and Gary Price. The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See Online Information Review Volume no. 3 26 2002 pp. 222-223

Sherman, Joseph (ed.) A World Too Wide: Essays on Libraries and Other Themes (Johannesburg: Wits. UP) in African Book Publishing Record 

Snyman, Retha (ed.) SCECSAL 2002: From Africa to the World: the Globalisation of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Proceedings of the 15th Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern African Library and Information Associations, 15 - 19 April 2002, Caesars Gauteng Conference Centre, South Africa. Pretoria: LIASA, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record  2002 (professional reading section)

SPEC kit / Systems and Procedures Exchange Center  (Washington), Australian Library Review.

Steele, Victoria, Stephen Elder. Becoming a fundraiser : the principles & practice of library development (Chicago: American Library Association, 2000) 2nd ed. in Australian Library Review vol 50 2 2001.

Stern, Daniel (ed.), Digitial Libraries. New York: Haworth, 1999 (also pub. as: Science and Technology Libraries 17(3/4) 1999) in Australian Library Journal vol. 49 no. 4 1999

Sturges, Paul, and Neill, Richard. The quiet struggle: information and  libraries for the people of Africa. 2nd ed. London: Mansell, 1998,  in Australian Library Journal 1998

Sturges, Paul and Diana Rosenberg (editors) Disaster and after: the practicalities of information service in times of war and other catastrophes , 1999, International Journal of Grey Literature.

Turfan, Barbara, Kathleen Ladizesky and Inese A. Smith (eds.), Emerging democracies and freedom of information (London : Library Association Pub., 1995) in Australian Library Review

Wei Wei, and Sue O'Neill Johnson and Sylvia E. A. Piggott (eds.) Leadership and Management Principles in Libraries in Developing Countries (Haworth, 2004) (published simultaneously as Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 23, Nos. 2/3.), Library Review, 2005

Wise, Michael (ed.), Survival Under Adverse Conditions: Proceedings of the African Library Science Journals Workshop. (The Hague, Netherlands : IFLA, 1994) in AFSAAP Review 1995.

Witt, Maira and Majid Ihadjadene (eds.) Archives, Libraries and Museums Covergence (Paris: Cite des sciences et de l'industrie, 2001), in Online Information Review 27(5) 2003, pp. 367-368

 

Conference & Colloquia Organizing, Seminars & Extra-Mural Education 

Organizer, "African Conflict in the Horn and Southern Africa" 1990, Perth, seminar with Professor Terence Ranger (Oxford) and Professor Samuel Makinda (Murdoch).

Coordinator and Organizer, "African Cultures, Societies and Images" Summer School Course, UWA Extension, 1998. 

Organizer, social event to celebrate the third anniversary of the W.A. African Studies Seminars, and to meet the new UWA Vice-Chancellor, Deryck Schreuder, 1998

Co-organizer, International Conference 'New African Perspectives: Africa, Australasia & the Wider World at the End of the 20th Century' of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific 1999. See: http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ASCWA/conference99/ 

Co-organizer, Conference of the Curtin Africa Teaching & Research Group and African Studies Centre  of Western Australia, in collaboration with the John Curtin International Institut, July, 2000  'Africa 2000: Links, Land, and Identities'  http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ASCWA/

Coordinator, African Studies Centre of Western Australia 1997-2000 http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ASCWA/

Co-organizer, Colloquium on "Sudan: Peace, Reconstruction and Policy," Michigan State University, 13 May 2005



Organizer/Chair of visiting scholarly speakers:

Michigan State University, African Studies Center

Peter Davis (Villon Films) on documentary film and apartheid. April 2004.

Professor Thomas Turner (University of Rwanda) August 2003, on Rwandan elections.

Professor John Daniel, Human Science Research Council, South Africa (on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) 2002

Dr. Amos Anyimadu, University of Legon, Ghana May 2002 (on informaton and citizenship in Ghana)

Professor Jeremy Seekings, Politics, University of Cape Town/Yale University, May 2002 (on social welfare in Africa)

Dr. Charles Eaton, University of Western Australia, July 2002 (on contract farming)

Professor Thomas Turner (University of Rwanda) August 2002 (on war and peace in the Great Lakes), August 2002

African Studies Centre of Western Australia

1997:

Panel on East Africa with Cherry Getrzel, Sam Makinda, and Francis Okeny Olaka

1998:

Prof. Sheridan Johns, Duke University ("Imperial Preference: The Case of the Comintern & South Africa")

Patrick Nkhoma, Notre Dame University ("The Impact of Foreign Aid on Primary Education in Influencing Poverty Reduction- A Zambian Case Study (1964 -1997)"

Saskia van Hoyweghen, Free University, Brussels ("Rwanda: issues of land reform, & refugee & exile re-integration/reconciliation")

Dr. Sam Makinda, Murdoch University and Dr. Catherine Macdonald ("Indigenous Rights in Africa")

Prof. Beverley Ormerod, UWA, "The Caribbean diaspora's view of Africa as expressed in literature"

Steve Rametse, Murdoch University "South Africa: Theories on Change and their Relevance in the Post-Apartheid Period"

1999:

Dr. Heidi HUDSON, (U. of the Orange Free State) " 'Caring' Security in Africa".

Dr. Jane CARRUTHERS, (University of South Africa) "Protected for the people or against the people? National Parks and Game Reserves in the Transvaal and Natal"

Dr. Hélène JACCOMARD, (School of European Studies, UWA), "Beur et Beurette" [Maghebian immigrants in France].

Mr. Nathan NEMBOUSSE & Ms. Francoise FALCONER (Chad Social Justice Bouladeouje) "What's happening in Chad today."

Prof. Mel PAGE, (Tennessee State University) "The Internet, Pedagogy, and Africa."

2000:

Dr Xolani H. Mkhwanazi (CEO, National Electricity Regulator South Africa) "People, Power and the Promise of a Better Life in South Africa"

Rita Pasqualini (Murdoch University) "Languages of Empire[s] in the Horn of Africa"

Dr Mia Roth (Vista University) "Winnie Mandela & the TRC"

Professor Martin Klein (University of Toronto) "The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Slavery within Africa"

Wessel Visser (Dept of History, Stellenbosch University) "White Labour Aristocracy and Black Proletariat"

Dr Jane Carruthers (History Dept., University of South Africa) "Urban land claims in South Africa: The case of Lady Selborne township, Pretoria, Gauteng"

 

Current research interests

Intellectual History and the Scholarly Process:

Digitization trends in the scholarly world (book)

The Digitization of Africa (articles)

Africana Journals (chapter)

History, Development and Future of the Book Review (paper, article)

Ethics and Archives (three articles)

Africa and the Internet (article)

 

Identities and nationalism:

 

The Indian National Congress & African National Congress: a comparative history (African nationalism and Indian nationalism compared (papers)

Sol Plaatje's attitudes to gender, class and Empire (papers , articles)

ANC history and identities/the black press (papers, articles, book)

Attitudes of African Nationalists to the British Empire (papers, articles)

The International Anti-Apartheid Movement: South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the US

 

Papers, article, chapter, book projected

Biography/Critical editions

Edited collection of primary papers; two different book proposals made on two different historical figures.

Gender, Nationalism, and Labour History:

Attitudes of African Nationalists and Labor Leaders to gender (papers, article)

Tours/Services for Professional Visitors (selected)

Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, January 2006

Ambassador of Kenya to the U.S. March 2004

Professor Andre Odendaal University of the Western Cape. 2004.

Professor Marcellina Chijoriga, University of Dar es Salaam, July 2002

Professor Fernanda Angius, Mozambique, July 2002

Mary Jay, Manager,African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford

Valmont Layne (District Six Musem, South Africa) April 2002

Dr. Graham Dominy, the National Archivist of South Africa, June, 2002

Robin Trehaeven (Deputy Librarian, University of Fort Hare, South Africa) July 2002

Abdoulaye Toure, historian and museologist, IFAN Dakar, 2001

Professional Workshops and Presentations

[with Nwando Achebe] strategic partnership meetings with faculty and librarians, over five days. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, July 2007,

[with David Wiley] 'The African e-Journals Project' presentation, to MSU African Studies Center Seminar on MSU's e-Resources on Africa: Food Security, Films & Videos, e-Journals, Languages, and More" January 19, 2006

[with David Wiley] 'The African e-Journals Project' presentation to national meeting of Project Directors, Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA),U.S. Department of Education, Duke University, March 2002.

[with David Wiley and others] "New Directions and Projects in MSU Partnerships in South Africa," African Studies Center, MSU seminar, March 2002.

Africana reference sources, presentation to MSU Library Reference faculty, February 2002.

[with Joe Lauer] "Resources on Africa: New Developments," African Studies Center, Michigan State University, September 2001

Workshop on e-Resources for seven visiting faculty, University of the North West, May 2001

Workshops on e-Resources for CASID gradiate students, University of the North West, May 2001

"Changing Paradigms of Libraries, e-Publishing, Partnerships, and a New Role for Librarians," paper to the University of Zimbabwe Library faculty, August 2001

[with Shane White) "Explaining MARC Records" UWA Library, 1997.

Humanities Computing

I have developed skills in humanities computer networking,  web programs, LISTSERV, and some experience of HTML and SGML. In 1996, I  was appointed a co-editor of H-Africa and in 1999 a co-editor of H-SAfrica. In these positions I am responsible for online management and development of scholarly lists with many hundreds of subscribers world-wide. I have been involved in planning, initiating and executing new features and networks. In 2000 I was elected to H-Net Executive Council.

Exhibitions

"Aboriginal Australia," Reid Library, 1990 (with Allison Kershaw)

African and Aboriginal Comparative Art Exbition, Perth, 1999 (consultant)

'Zulu Vistas', MSU Libraries, February-March 2006

"South African Labor History and Culture" exhibition, MSU Libraries, October-December 2006

Non-degree course work