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The bulk of the materials in this collection were gathered by Darren Kew during his time as a member of the Carter Center-National Democratic Institute observation delegation sent to Nigeria…
Dissertation Research on Hausa and Dagamba recorded in Sokoto, Nigeria; Kano, Nigeria ; Legon, Ghana ; Los Angeles, California ; Kaduna, Nigeria ; Yendi, Ghana ; etc. Non-dissertation related research…
The papers of George D. Jenkins include speeches and writings, correspondence, the original draft of a book, The Price of Liberty, written by Jenkins with Kenneth W. J. Post, ordinances,…
Autobiography, correspondence, documents, maps, reports, black/white photographs and photograph albums, several thousand color slides, and artifacts of a Swiss-born mining geologist who visited or worked in many countries from the…
Many of the pamphlets assembled by Ottenberg are known collectively as Onitsha Market Literature. Often written in pidgin English or Creole, these booklets were popular literature and have become an…
Ephemeral publications of private governmental organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development, the government of the Republic of Biafra, and the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;…
Regulations, statutes, instructions, reports, maps, writings, letters, manifestos, pamphlets, and election campaign literature, relating to political parties in Nigeria and other African countries, and especially to the elections of 1980…
Includes photographs, oral history transcripts, printed materials, and artifacts such as iron ore, slag, smelted iron, and furnace wall samples, most relating to time as Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria…
Collection contains research materials for Brantley's books, "The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800-1920" and "Feeding Families: African Realities and British Ideas of Nutrition and Development in Early Colonial…
Photograph Album of Travels in West Africa in 1936, featuring Belgian Congo, Uganda, Niger, Ghana (Gold Coast), Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Sudan. Album contains 127 original B + W photographs…