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Gordimer, Nadine. Papers, 1934-1991.

Title: Papers, 1934-1991.

Consists of the papers of South African author and Nobel prize winner Nadine Gordimer.

ArchivalResource: 6, 700 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31316216 View

Nichols, Lee. [Ghana, Accra, Interview with Efua Theodora Sutherland, 1974] [sound recording] / collected by Lee Nichols.

Title: [Ghana, Accra, Interview with Efua Theodora Sutherland, 1974] [sound recording] / collected by Lee Nichols.

The author describes how she began writing as a teacher since she felt children needed literature appropriate to their cultural background. She discusses the preservation of Ghanaian cultural heritage in their novels, poetry, and plays. She reads a portion of one of her plays in English.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono. ; 10 in. + 1 broadcast tape (7 in.) + documentation.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37888396 View

The W.A. Whitten, Collection, 1962-1991

Title: The W.A. Whitten Collection 1962-1991

Willie A. Whitten completed his Ed.D. from Indiana University in 1966. He made several trips to Liberia throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) worker in order to gather research for his dissertation. His research interests include education in Liberian villages with an emphasis on adult education and the conducting and planning of town meetings. This collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles from Liberia, government reports, and materials from the Voinjama School District, as well as 11 open reel tape recordings of town meetings and music from Liberian tribes. Also included are a collection of color transparencies showing images of tribal villages and culture, as well as a set of 86 artifacts containing items such as musical instruments, household tools, textiles, and decorative figurines.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet;; 2 records cartons; 86 artifacts; 669 color transparencies

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=VAC3310 View

July, Robert William. Robert W. July collection, 1958-1999.

Title: Robert W. July collection, 1958-1999.

The collection provides the perspective of an executive of a major foundation who encountered many of the leading cultural and intellectual figures in Africa, black and white, on the eve of independence in the French-speaking and British Commonwealth territories. The author's published books are represented by correspondence, reviews and research material. Other writings include two unpublished novels, book reviews, conference papers, encyclopedia articles, and an essay article on the political philosophy of Wole Soyinka. Correspondents include the critic and editor of "Black Orpheus," Ulli Beier; the Nigerian author and critic Abiola Irele; the British Africanist Dennis Austin; the Ghanaian folklorist Kwabena Nketia; the British editor of "Nigeria Magazine," Michael Crawford; the West African authors Colin Legum, Kenneth Dike and Efua Sutherland; in addition to publishers and agents. July's extensive research notes for the book "Origins of Modern African Thought" drew from local West African newspapers from the 1860s to the late 1920s, and from archival sources in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Ghana. Also included are microfilm copies of documents from French colonial archives on the Senegalese Blaise Diagne, and on David Boilat, a mulatto priest and literacy advocate in West Africa in the 1840s.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78682526 View