Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
The collection focuses on Central, Eastern and Southern Africa
The Sabinet African Archives portal currently offers an index to collections within academic institutions of South Africa. We are busy expanding this index. Sabinet also offers a hosting and digitisation solution to online collection holders to make it more discoverable to researchers globally.
Disclaimer — The collections listed on the Sabinet African Archives may include materials that reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. These materials are presented as part of historical records. Inclusion of these materials does not mean endorsement of or agreement with by Sabinet on any views or terms expressed in the descriptions and/or materials. Read more …
Film Library
The NFVF film library is a resource list of South African films. Search according to title, genre, production status, production type and funding status.
Historical Papers Research Archive
Historical Papers is one of the largest and most comprehensive independent archives in Southern Africa. We house over 3300 collections of historical, political and cultural importance, encompass the mid 17th…
Jasper Hillier Shakespeareana Collection
Originally the collection comprised 2476 books and pamphlet. Presently the collection has grown to 5 500 books and pamphlets and is housed in the Central Reference Library. This is one…
Desmond T Cole Collection
This extensive and valuable collection contains books, manuscripts and journals on a variety of subjects, including history, religion, psychology, education and botany. The majority of the items are on African…
NJ Van Warmelo’s Anthropological & Language collection
His extensive personal library includes works on languages and anthropology of Southern Africa in books and periodicals to 1950. The rest of the Collection consists of artefacts, e.g. beautiful beadwork,…
International Library of African Music
The collection consists of recordings of African music, songs, and other oral arts
Jaco Kruger Collections
The collection consists of recordings of traditional African songs
Hugh Tracey Music of Africa Series
The International Library of African Music (ILAM) is cataloguing and digitizing thousands of songs from throughout sub Saharan Africa found on the recordings produced by Hugh Tracey from his field…
Hugh Tracey Audio Collections
The International Library of African Music (ILAM) is cataloguing and digitizing thousands of songs from throughout sub Saharan Africa found on the recordings produced by Hugh Tracey from his field…