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Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)

Current Projects

CAMP/Title VI African Archives Projects:

Archives des tribunaux musulmans de Saint-Louis, Senegal

CAMP will support original microfilming of 19th and 20th century colonial Islamic court records from Saint-Louis, Senegal, which were originally stored at the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation du Senegal and the Regional Court Archive of Saint-Louis.

Congo Newspapers

The collection includes over 160 titles of Zaire/D.R. Congolese newspapers collected by the Library of Congress Nairobi Office from 1985-2005. There are long runs of some titles, but the majority is short-lived titles with fewer than twenty issues having been published. Sample titles are: La Bourse, Forum des As, La Cite Africaine, Inter-Midi, La Libre Afrique, Muten, La Nation en chantier, L'Ouragan, Le Satellite, Taifa, Aurore, Liberation, and Le Lushois.
Most of these newspapers are not held by any libraries outside of the DR Congo (and probably not even in most Congolese libraries). They contain a wealth of information about Zaire/Congolese politics, society and history during turbulent times.

Cooperative African Newspapers Project

(African Newspapers Union List)  Sponsored by the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program.

Courrier d'Afrique

The current microfilming project covers Feb. 20, 1943 -Dec. 30. 1955. This newspaper is from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Eastern Nigeria Guardian

This was the first title published under the Zik Group. This critical title for scholarship is not widely held. CAMP is filming combined 1941-1948 holdings from CRL and the Library of Congress.

Liberian Newspapers

CAMP has filmed several Liberian newspapers, including issues of The News and The Inquirer from 1997 through 2004. These newspapers were both published in Monrovia, Liberia and the bulk of the collection comes from Michigan State University. In a continuation of this project, CAMP will be filming additional Liberian newspapers from MSU's collection. Titles include: Analyst (1998-2006), Heritage (1997-2004), New Democrat (1998-2006) and Patriot (1992-2002).

Malawian Newspapers

19 newspaper titles from Malawi from the years 1998-2005, collected by the Library of Congress Nairobi Field Office.

Malian Newspapers

CAMP currently receives from Northwestern University and films Les Echos [May 26, 1989-  ] and Le Républicain [March 10, 1993-  ], two titles from Bamako, Mali.

Nigerian State Documents

This project will film current documents from various state governments in Nigeria. Most of the documents come from the University of California - Berkeley and Northwestern University.

Developing Proposals

National Commission for Democracy papers (Ghana)

Zulu Mission newspapers associated with the American Board Mission.

 

Last updated 05/05/2008
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