Don Africana Library
These 4 000 items now form the nucleus of the Don Africana Library but, of course, the collection has grown enormously. There are now over 50 000 catalogued items and…
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.
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Frederick Wagener Collection
It comprises books, pamphlets, art prints and manuscripts about the lives of the peoples of the country. Many of the works date from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The…
Africana Collection
The Africana collection includes social, political and economic history, as well as languages and literature of Africa. Current journals in these fields are accessible from the first basement of the…
The Early Africana collection
The Early Africana collection comprises books and periodicals published before 1850 and runs up to 1925.It can be described as covering all rare and important books which are not Africana.It…
Africana Collection
The term Africana refers to materials, such as books, documents, or art objects, relating to the history or culture of African peoples. In the case of UWC the Africana Collection…
V Botha
A publication about political images taken from De Burger
Mansvelt collection
A collection of Africana books, framed pictures, objects, letters and documents
Boyazoglu collection of French Africana
The collection comprises material illustrating French involvement in South African history, including the following: material relating to the early French journeys to the Cape and South African interior; descriptions of…
Africana Collection
The Africana Library houses a special collection relating to Africa. The purpose is to develop a knowledge-base about Africa for research purposes
Africana Collection
The Cape Town and Wellington libraries each houses a small collection of Africana titles. These are kept in a locked room and may only be viewed under supervision of a…