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Peter
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Curriculum
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1. PERSONAL
DETAILS
Contacts:
mail
to: limb@msu.edu
Telephone: (517) 884-0838 Fax: (517) 432-3532
[Library]
366 W. Circle Drive, Room E224B
Michigan State University
East Lansing , MI 48824, USA
[History]
301 Morrill Hall
History Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, 48824 USA
limb@msu.edu
2. PROFESSIONAL
APPOINTMENTS
Current appointments:
Africana Bibliographer/Librarian
III
Michigan State University
Associate Professor, Adjunct
History Department
Michigan State University
Previous appointments:
University of Western
Australia 1979-2001, Librarian
Perth Central Metropolitan
College, Visiting Lecturer, 1993
3.
EDUCATION
1977. B.A. University
of Adelaide
1978. B.A. (Hons) in History, University of Adelaide.
1981. Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science, W.A.I.T. (Curtin
University)
1998. Ph.D. University of Western Australia (History-African Studies). Advisor:
Prof. N.E. Etherington
SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS:
1971 Undergraduate scholarship
to Australian National University (declined)
1889 University of Western Australia postgraduate travel grant
1991 University of Western Australia postgraduate travel grant
1992-94 University of Western Australia postgraduate scholarships
2012 MSU Distinguished Faculty Award
4.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Teaching,
Lectureships, Instruction, Invitations/Visiting Fellowships
Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Michigan State University, 2001-6
Associate Professor (Adjunct),
Michigan State University, 2006-
Recent Teaching course examples:
Graduate:
HST830 'African Historiography' (2008);
HST990 Diamond Mining: South African Labor & Comparative History (2007)
HST990 'Eastern Cape Political History' (2009)
HST990 Namibian History, missions, nationalism and narratives (2010)
Undergraduate:
HST364 South Africa and its Neighbors (2009)
HST 201 (2003), 364 (2001, 2009), 484 (2006). South/Southern African history
Special courses taught: Conflict in Africa (2005-7); Africa in film.
Instruction to ISSR seminar
graduate students, October 2001, September 2002
Instruction to Visiting South African Literature and Linguistics Faculty,
May 2001
Compton Graduate Fellowship Colloquium, 2004
Visiting Fellow, Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, 1995
Visiting Lecturer, Perth Central Metropolitan College, TAFE, 1993, Library
Studies.
Major
Committees and Projects
African Activist Achives, co-coordinator, 2004-
'African e-Journals Project' (ASC MSU/MSU Libraries/MSU Press/international
partners), Coordinator, 2001-8
African Studies Center Faculty Advisory Board, elected member, 2008-2010
African Studies Center Faculty Advisory Board, Convenor Intellectual Outcomes Committee, 2009-10
African Studies Association, Publications and Communications Committee, 2011- co-opted
Africana Librarians Council Bibliography
Committee 2003-2005
Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP), elected Executive Member
,
2002-3
Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP), Convenor, Newspaper Committee, 2009-
Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP),Chair-Elect, 2010-11.
Compton Africa Peace Fellowships Program, Committee
(MSU), 2002-2008
Conover-Porter Award Committee 2008-11
Peace and Social Justice Studies, Advisory Committee (MSU)
Steering Committee (MSU
Library)
Strategic Planning Research
Committee (UWA)
OPAC Operations Team (UWA)
Membership of Governing Boards/ Coordinating Councils
Africana
Librarians Council
Chairperson, November 2006-October 2007
Chairperson-elect (2005-6)
Chairperson of the Bibliography
Committee (includes Conover-Porter Award) 2003-2005
Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project (CAMP), elected Executive Member, 2002-3
Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP),elected Chair-Elect, 2010-11
H-Net ( Humanities and Social
Sciences. The Executive Council is elected by editors
and H-Net staff.)
Executive Council,
elected Member, 2000-2002.
Publications Committee,
H-Net, Member, 2000-2009.
PLAN-AFRICA Coordinating
Editor, nine international scholarly online networks, 2000-2004
Membership of Professional Associations (past & present)
African Studies
Association (U.S.)
Associatin of Concerned African Scholars
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
Africana Librarians Council
American Historical Association
Australian Society for Labour History
Canadian Association of African Studies
Library Association of Australia/ALIA
South African Historical Association
South African Historical Society
Standing Committee on Library Materials for Africa (UK)
World History Association
Membership
of Editorial Advisory Boards, and Other Advisory Boards
Print
Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa (JGIDA) University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2012-
Encyclopedia of Colonialism
(ABC-Clio, 2000-2003)
Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities (Routledge 2000-2004)
Innovation (Pietermaritzburg) "Appropriate librarianship and information work in
Southern Africa."
-
Historia (South African Historical Association, 2004-)
Encyclopedia of South Africa (Lynne Reinner, 2005-11)
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, 2007-
Electronic
H-SAfrica, 1996-2009
H-Africa, 1995-2005
Mots pluriels (international, interdisciplinary e-journal on contemporary
issues, focusing on Africa) http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP.html
Safundi : The
Journal of South African & American Comparative Studies Associate
Editor 2001-
Ghana Committee on Technical Connectivity Task Force on Management & Policy
(honorary member)
Consultancies and Professional Services
Consultancy on university capacitization, University of Malawi, June 2012
Overseas consultancy for
major African scholarly digitization project (2003)
Referee of articles for
scholarly journals: including Journal of Economic History, Journal of Religious History, African Studies
Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, South African Historical Journal, Historia, Kleio, African Historical Review, African Studies, Politikon, Journal of Natal and Zulu History, Journal of Australian Colonial History,
Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, Mots pluriels, etc.
Referee of book manuscripts for university presses (Cambridge University Press, University Press of Kentucky, South African university presses).
Supervisor of doctoral students (two currently: South Africa (1), Namibia (1))
Examiner (internal and
external) of theses
(Ph.D and Masters): history (5), politics (1),
sociology (1), archives an history(1)
Peer review referee (tenure, promotion, national ranking: National Research Foundation (4) of South Africa; Ohio State
University; CUNY (New York); Lincoln University; Noma award
Grant project reviewer for: American Council of Learned Societies (thrice); Fulbright Awards (thrice); MSU internal grants; National Research Foundation, South Africa (thrice); National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) panel (deferred); NEH (individual grants); European Commission Marie Curie Award (thrice)
In-depth consultancies on African studies to colleagues and students in many
countries
Historical input
for documentary film on history of the international anti-apartheid movement
, Have Your Heard from Johannesburg
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES/MENTORING TO COMPLETION
- Dawne Currey. 2006 "Community, culture and resistance in Alexandra, South Africa, 1912-85"
- Nokuthula Cele. 2006 "Building a community on the Zulu frontier : the history of the Machi chieftaincy from the early 19th century to 1948"
- Leslie Hadfield, 2010. "A History of the Community Development Programs of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, 1969-1977"
- Jill Kelly. 2012. "'Only The Fourth Chief: Conflict, Land, And Chiefly Authority In Kwazulu-Natal, 1973-1994"
Editorships
Editing of Journals and
Series
(print and online)
· Africa Past and Present "a podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora ...." (with Dr. Peter Alegi) 2008- 64 episodes to date
- Association of Concerned African Scholars. ACAS Bulletin: executive editor 2011; special issue on the Sudans: marking the independence of South Sudan, Africa's newest country: ACAS Bulletin 86 – The Sudans: Which Way? November 2011 http://concernedafricascholars.org/bulletin/issue86/
Australian
Library Review special issue on "Africa and Area Studies" 1994
"AFRICA
FORUM", 1998-2005 Editor. Series
featuring essays by and interviews with notable Africanists, including Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch,
Jan Vansina, Paul Landau, Alan Cobley, Jon Abbink, and John Edward Philips.
Several reprinted with permission in scholarly jourmnals. See: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/africaforum/index.html
·
Mots pluriels no. 13 2000: "New African perspectives
and challenges of the future" (co-editor)
·
Innovation (South Africa):
i) June 2002 special issue
on libraries and archives of Southern Africa
ii) December 2011) special issue on libraries in Southern Africa
·
Safundi : The
Journal of South African & American Comparative Studies Associate
Editor 2001-
Editing of Books (* = refereed)
* The People’s Paper: A Centenary History & Anthology of Abantu-Batho (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, October 2012).
* The Autobiography and Selected
Works of A. B. Xuma (Cape Town: VRS for Historical Publications, 2012):
Listen to Peter Limb's interview on Xuma "Africa Past and Present": at http://afripod.aodl.org/ Another interview with Peter Limb on SAfm radio on Xuma at http://www.youtube.com/user/SABCSAFM?feature=mhee
* Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous
South(ern) African Responses to Colonialism (Leiden: Brill,
Feb. 2010), edited with
Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley; European Expansion and Indigenous Response, 6.
* Orb
and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies (editor) (Melbourne: Monash University Press; Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008). Reviews (H-SAfrica, December 2008; Eras November 2008)
(compiler) International Conference on New
African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End
of the Twentieth Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
Australia, 26-28 November 1999 : Conference papers ([Nedlands,
W.A.]: The Association, 2000) 4 volumes.
(compiler) International Conference on New
African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End
of the Twentieth Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
Australia,
26-28 November 1999 : Conference abstracts ([Nedlands, W.A.] : The Association,
1999)
.
Editing of Online Scholarly Networks
H-Africa
(moderated scholarly network on African History and Culture),
Online editor, Information
editor, 1996-2005
H-SAfrica
(moderated scholarly network on Southern African History and Culture), 1996-
2009
Online Editor, Coordinating Reviews editor, board.
Editing of Major Online Scholarly and
Reference Guides
'An
A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
'
a regularly updated and widely-cited and used Internet guide to African
studies
(1996-) http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html
Professional
and Scholarly Overseas Travel and Involvement, 1989-
Great Britain (York, London), Zambia, Zimbabwe, 1989 (research)
Melbourne, 1990 (conference)
Melbourne, 1991 (conference)
Cape Town, 1995 (fellowship, research and projects)
San Francisco, 1996 (research and networks)
Cape Town, Fort Hare, Grahamstown, 1999, (conference, seminars, research)
Oxford, 2000 (conference, business)
Quebec, 2001 (conference)
South Africa (Johannesburg, Pretoria, Mafikeng), 2001 (conference,
seminars, research, business)
Harare, Zimbabwe International Book Fair, 2001 (business, projects and book
buying)
Botswana, South Africa, July 2001 (book buying, seminar, research)
Cape Town, South Africa, January 2002 (acquisitions, international conference,
research)
Toronto, May 2002 (conference)
Oxford and London, June 2002 (conference, business, research)
South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Fort Hare, Durban) March 2003 (consultancy,
business)
Belgium (Tervuren), September 2004 (business)
South Africa (Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Hilton) October 2004 (conference,
business, research)
South Africa, France, Australia, New Zealand (research, business, May and
Sept-November 2005)
Belgium, Portugal, (research, business) October 2006
Nigeria (Enugu, Nsukka,
July 2007, business)
Leiden, Bruxelles July 2007 (conferences, business
Switzerland (2008, conference, business)
Bruxelles (2008 conference)
Malawi (2009, business),
Edinburgh, Stirling, York, Cambridge, London (SOAS) (2009, research, conference)
London (2010, British Library, conferences (two); Oxford, SOAS (research)
Sweden (2011, two conferences)
Oxford (2012 Scolma conference)
Malawi (2012, university partnership, capacitization)
South Africa (2012, book launches, Wits WISER seminar paper, Cape Town Book Fair)
Botswana (2013, two papers to biennial conference SAHS, and conference plenary overview; book launch talk for UCT Press)
South Africa (2013, University of the Free State History Dept. seminar paper; Johannesburg/Ladybrand: book trade business; Bloemfontein/Johannesburg: new archival research)
Switzerland (2013, international conference paper; book trade business)
Select Publications
Books
& Proceedings
( * = refereed (double or triple blind))
The Spear and the Wheel forthcoming, 2016
[ A New History of the Liberation Movement], forthcoming 2015
* The People’s Paper: A Centenary History & Anthology of Abantu-Batho (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, October 2012) 592 pp.
* The Autobiography and Selected
Works of A. B. Xuma (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, 2012 [Second Series; 43) 402 pp.
Peter Limb's interview on Xuma "Africa Past and Present": at http://afripod.aodl.org/ Another interview with Peter Limb on SAfm omn Xuma at http://www.youtube.com/user/SABCSAFM?feature=mhee
reviews: International Journal of African Historical Studies. 2013. Vol. 46. No. 1. 169-171.
Historia 2013 Vol 58, Issue 1, May, 264-267.
A Shared History: The ALP. the ANC & the Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement (Canberra: Labor International, 2012)
* The ANC's Early Years: Nation, Class, and Place in South Africa before 1940 (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2010) flyer
'Choice Outstanding Academic Title'. Review on H-SAfrica ( H-Net) August 2013 by Professor Roger Southall:
* Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous
South(ern) African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930 (Leiden: Brill, 2010) edited with
Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley ( European Expansion and Indigenous Response, 6).
* Orb
and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies (editor)
(Melbourne: Monash University Press; Sydney: Sydney University Press, July 2008). Reviews (H-SAfrica, Dec. 2008; Eras Nov. 2008)
Nelson Mandela: A Biography (Greenwood Press: February 2008) : review: H-SAfrica November 2008)
Digital
Dilemmas and Solutions (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2004)
Apartheid : [a backbone
narrative] (digital, 2004: broader project online 2008- as "South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy)
(compiler) International Conference on New
African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End
of the Twentieth Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
Australia, 26-28 November 1999 : Conference papers (Nedlands: AFSAAP, 2000) 4 v.
(compiler) International Conference on New
African Perspectives : Africa, Australasia and the Wider World at the End
of the Twentieth Century, The University of Western Australia, Perth,
Australia, 26-28 November 1999 : Conference abstracts ([Nedlands.] : AFSAAP,
1999)
.
(with Dr Jean-Marie Volet) Bibliography of African Literatures
(Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996; Scarecrow area bibliographies 10)
433 pp.
Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo, Personal
Papers (Bellville, South Africa:
Mayibuye Centre, 1995)
The ANC and Black Workers, 1912-1992:
an Annotated Bibliography (London; New Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers,
1993). 380 pp. Widely regarded as the definitive bibliography.
Articles and Chapters in Books (* = refereed)
"The ANC and Black Workers" in Norman Etherington (ed.), Peace,
Politics and Violence in the New South Africa (Oxford: Hans Zell, 1992),
pp. 284-305.
[interview
with] Terence Ranger, "The State of African Studies in Britain and Zimbabwe"
African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review &
Newsletter 1993
"Trends
in African Studies in Australian Libraries" in Australian Library
Review special issue on Africa and Area Studies v. 11 no. 4 Nov. 1994,
pp. 465-76
"Area
Studies, Access to Resources and Australian Libraries" in Australian
Library Review special issue on Africa and Area Studies v. 11 no. 4 Nov.
1994, pp. 434-36.
"Black Access to Electronic Research Services in South Africa: Problems and
Prospects of Real Change," AFSAAP Review, vol. 18 no. 1 1996, pp.13-17.
"Black
Access to Electronic Research Services in South Africa: Problems and Prospects
of Real Change," Development Bulletin (Canberra) v.
39 Oct. 1996
"The Archive of the Anti-Apartheid
Struggle of South Africa" AFSAAP Review, vol.18 no.1 1996, pp. 49-50
"'Of
Deeds Most Foul and Vile': a Short Comparative History of Robben & Rottnest
Penal Islands" in African Studies Association of Australasia
& the Pacific Review v.20 no.1 June 1998, pp.15-19
* "An
Australian Historian at the Dawn of Apartheid: Fred Alexander in South Africa,
1949-50" in Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
November 1999
with Jean-Marie
Volet, " New
African Perspectives: Editorial" Mots pluriels 13,
April 2000
* "'Representing
the Laboring Classes': African Workers in the African Nationalist Press, 1900-60"
in Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari(eds.), South Africa's Resistance Press:
Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid (Athens: Ohio
University Center for International Studies, 2000), pp. 79-127
* "New
Scenarios on Africa, African Studies, and the Internet" Mots
pluriels 18, August, 2001
"Sol Plaatje's Attitudes
to Labour, Empire, and Gender," Sociology, Rand Afrikaans University,
2001 (seminar paper published online)
* "Rethinking Sol
Plaatje's Attitudes to Empire, Labour and Gender" Critical Arts vol.
16 no. 1 2002
* "Early
ANC Leaders and the British World: Ambiguities and Identities" Historia
47 no.1 2002, pp. 56-82
"2001 Mafikeng SAHS Conference"
AHA Bulletin (Australian Historical Association) no. 94, 2002
* "Introduction,"
to Innovation (Pietermartizburg) 24 2002: pp. 1-3
* "Ethical
Dilemmas in Southern African Archives and Libraries" Innovation 24
2002, pp. 51-58
"Ethical Dilemmas Facing
Africanist Librarians, Archivists and Scholars Today" African Research
and Documentation (London) 89 2002, pp. 3-18.
"Accessing African
archives, libraries and journals: Partnerships, ethics and equity in the 21st
century" African Research and Documentation (London) 90 2002, pp. 29-41.
"HIV/AIDS in South
Africa: A Select Bibliography," Society in Transition, 33 (3) 2002,
pp. 455-469 [published in late 2003].
* "Sol
Plaatje Reconsidered" African Studies 62(1) 2003, pp. 33-52.
"Labor" in Melvin E. Page (ed.), Colonialism: an International Social,
Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio,
2003), vol. 1, pp. 325-328.
"Sol T. Plaatje (1876-1932)" in Melvin E. Page (ed.), Colonialism: an International
Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Calif. :
ABC-Clio, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 473-474.
* "'No
People Can Be Expected to Be Loyal under Such Difficulties': Ambiguities and
Identities among Early ANC Leaders" Social Dynamics 29(1) 2003,
pp. 1-26.
"CAMP and African
Newspaper Microfilm Preservation and Digitisation" in Opportunities for Newspaper
Preservation and Access in South Africa: Papers Presented at the South African
Newspaper Seminar 17-19 March 2003, Cape Town, National Library of South Africa,
2003. Published in Hartmut Walravens (editor), International newspaper librarianship for the 21st century (International Federation of Library Associations, 2006; IFLA Publications; 118)
"Recent Developments
in African Scholarly e-Resources" in Focus on the Center for Research
Libraries. Vol. 23 no. 4 Summer 2004, pp. 8-9
"South Africa: Mining:
capitalization and unionization, 1940s-80s," in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London; New York: Routledge, 2005)
vol. 2, pp. 1445-1447.
"Trades
Unionism and Nationalism," in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia
of African History (London; New York: Fitzroy Dearborn/Routledge, 2005),
vol. 3 pp. 1578-1580.
"Trade
Unions: Postcolonial", in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia
of African History (London; New York: Routledge, 2005), vol. 3 pp. 1577-1578.
"Z. K. Matthews (1901-68)"
in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London;
New York: Routledge, 2005), vol. 2 pp. 955-956.
"Ezekiel Mphahlele,"
in Kevin Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History (London;
New York: Fitzroy Dearborn/Routledge, 2005), vol. 2 pp. 1045-1046.
* "Partnership
as a New Paradigm of Reference Librarianship in African Studies" in The
Reference Librarian 87/88 2004 pp. 151-162: also published as D. LeFond
and G. Walsh (eds) Research, Reference Servide, and Resources for the Study
of Africa (Haworth, 2004), 151-162.
"Ken
Saro-Wiwa," in Encyclopedia of the World's MInorities (London:
New York: Routledge, 2005).
"Albert Luthuli" in Encyclopedia of the World's MInorities (London:
New York: Routledge, 2005).
"John Garang" in Encyclopedia of the World's MInorities (London:
New York: Routledge, 2005).
* "Africana Periodicals:
Problems and Progress of Collection and Publication in a Globalizing Information
Economy" in V. Ewalds and D. Henige (eds.) Africanist Librarianship
in an Era of Change (Lanhma, MD: Scarecrow Press, May 2005), pp. 125-140.
* "The
Digitization of Africa," Africa Today (Bloomington, Indiana
University Press), Volume 52, Number 2, Winter [January] 2006, pp. 3-19.
* "I-Kongilesi
Lilizwi ezindi ezindlwini (Congress' Name is Household)": Politics and Class in the Cape Province
during the 1920s," in Historia: Joernaal van die Historiese Genootskap
van Suid-Afrika = Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa Volume
51, no. 1 Mei / May 2006 pp. 49-86
* "A.B. Xuma,"
in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
revised edition, online 2006, and later print)
"African Studies
Bibliography: A State-of-the-Art Review" [keynote article] Africa
Bibliography 2005 (Edinburgh University Press, 2006 [Janaury 2007]), pp.
vii-xv
* "The politics of digital “reform and revolution”: towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitisation" Innovation 34
2007: special issue on 'The politics of digital initiatives concerning Africa',
edited by Alfred Kagan.
* "The anti-apartheid movements in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand" in The Road to Democracy in South Africa: volume 3 The International
Anti-Apartheid Movement or (Pretoria: Unisa Press for South Africa Democracy and Education
Trust, 2008) v. 3, pp. 907-982
* "Early African Political Leaders in South Africa and the Ambiguous Legacies
of British Imperialism" in Peter Limb (editor), Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism
and its Legacies in Honour of Norman Etherington. (Melbourne: Monash University ePress, 2008).
* "Introduction" in Peter Limb (editor), Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism
and its Legacies in Honour of Norman Etherington. (Melbourne: Monash University ePress, 2008).
* "Intermediaries of Class, Nation, and Gender in the African Response to Colonialism in South Africa, 1890s-1920s" in Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous
South(ern) African Responses to Colonialism (Leiden: Brill,
Feb. 2010), edited with
Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley; ( European Expansion and Indigenous Response, 6). 7
"Luthuli, Albert John" in Encyclopedia
of African Thought (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2009)
"Sachs, Albie" in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"First, Ruth"
in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Mandela, Nelson"
in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Plaatje, Sol" in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Slovo, Joe" in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Huddleston, Trevor", in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Apartheid" in Oxford Encyclopedia
of African Thought (Oxford University Press, 2010)
"Interview with Bob Edgar by Peter Limb and Peter Alegi" Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies Vol. 10, No. 3, July 2009, 337–343
"The African National Congress" in Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs
eds. Encyclopedia of South Africa (Boulder, 2011)
"The International
Anti-Apartheid Movement" in Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs eds. Encyclopedia
of South Africa (Boulder, 2011)
Contributions/annotations to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers / Robert A. Hill, editor. Berkeley : University of California Press (forthcoming)
James Simon [interview with Peter Limb] 'On Using the World Newspaper Archive', Focus on Global Resources (CRL) Summer 2010 Vol.29, Num.4 Resources on Africa.
"Partnerships with the University of Malawi and University of Nigeria Libraries" African Research & Documentation (Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa; London) no. 114 2010 (printed 2011), pp. 13-22.
* "Terence Ranger, African Studies, and South African Historiography" Historia (Durban) vol. 56 no.1 May 2011, pp. 1-25
"Introduction" (with Horace Campbell) in ACAS Bulletin 86 – The Sudans: Which Way? November 2011
Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, 2012) entries on: Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Sol Plaatje, Walter Sisulu, John Dube, Yusuf Dadoo
* "Introduction" to ''University libraries & library science in Southern Africa", Innovation (UKZN, Pietermartizburg) March 2012
'From ‘Sisters of the South’ to Comrades of the Commonwealth: Old & New Sources and Tools on Australian-South African Relations' Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 66 no. 1 March 2012, 19-24
* "Introduction" and four chapters in * The People’s Paper: A Centenary History & Anthology of Abantu-Batho (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, October, 2012):
* "Introduction: A Centenary History of Abantu-Batho, the People’s Paper" in The People’s Paper, 2-48
* "‘Only the Bolder Spirits’: Politics, Racism, Solidarity, & War in Abantu-Batho" in * The People’s Paper, 49-80
* ‘They Must Go to the Bantu Batho’: Economics and Education, Religion and Gender, Love and Leisure in the People’s Paper" in The People’s Paper, 81-115
* "An African Newspaper in Central Johannesburg: The Journalistic and Associational Context of Abantu-Bantu", The People’s Paper, 298-317
* "Conclusion: Assessing the Decline and Legacy of Abantu-Bantu", in The People’s Paperm, 318-330
"The ANC’s First Newspaper Recovered", The Thinker (Johannesburg) volume 47, January 2013 pp. 34-37
"Concluding Remarks" in M. Wallace et al (eds.) Building and Maintaining African Digital Libraries (UK, 2013), forthcoming
with Terry Barringer, Jos Damen, and Marion Wallace, 'Introduction' in M. Wallace et al (eds.) Building and Maintaining African Digital Libraries (UK, 2013), 1-11, forthcoming
Dissertations
and Theses
"The
African National Congress and black workers in South Africa: continuity and
change in their relationships before 1940." Ph.D., University
of Western Australia, 1997
"The
Fall of the Front Populaire : An Analysis of Contemporary Interpretations."
Thesis (B.A. Hons.) Department of History, University of Adelaide, 1978
Bibliographic
Columns
Southern African Review
of Books (Cape Town) 1995-1996
(invited special
regular column)
Edited Issues of Journals
Association of Concerned African Scholars.
ACAS Bulletin 86 – The Sudans: Which Way? November 2011 http://concernedafricascholars.org/bulletin/issue86/
Australian Library
Review (special issue on Africa and Area Studies) v. 11 no. 4 Nov.
1994
Mots pluriels (electronic journal on contemporary issues)
no.13 April 2000: "New African perspectives and challenges of the future"
(with Dr. Jean-Marie Volet)
Innovation (UKZN, Pietermartizburg) no. 24 2002
Innovation (UKZN, Pietermartizburg) March 2012 : ''University libraries & library science in Southern Africa"
Edited Pamphlets
Raymond Suttner, South
Africa, Apartheid In Crisis (Perth: WACARE, 1990) (co-editor)
Conference and seminar papers and presentations
2013
'The Empire Writes Back: How Africans Articulated and Challenged the Brutish (South African) Empire in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century', paper to MSU African Studies Center Eye on Africa seminar series, November 2013
'The Empire Writes Back: How Africans Articulated and Challenged the Brutish (South African) Empire in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century', paper to the International conference, 'Re-figuring the South African Empire', Basel, Switzerland, 9-11 September 2013
Book launch talk on: Hilary Sapire and Chris Saunders eds. Southern african liberation struggles : new local, regional and global perspectives (Cape Town : UCT Press, 2013 ie 2012), at the 24th biennial conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27-29 June 2013
'The Origins and Development of Black Politics in the Free State (and beyond), 1902-39' Presented at the 24th biennial conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27-29 June 2013
'The Third "Evangelisation‟: Liaisons dangereuses of politics and religion: The emergence of African Christian-political activists, 1890s-1920s' Presented at the 24th biennial conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27-29 June 2013
'Conference Concluding Overview', Presented to final plenary at the 24th biennial conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27-29 June 2013
'The Origins of the Freedom Struggle in the Free State: History, Politics, and Culture” seminar presented at the History Dept, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, June 2013
2012
“Podcasting Africa Past and Present” paper to the panel on New Digital Resources in African Studies Scholarship, African Studies Association annual conference, Philadelphia, November 30 2012
"The African National Congress: History, Politics, Culture”, African Studies Center Eye on Africa seminar series on the ANC centenary, 13 September 2012
"Dis/connects: Building and maintaining digital libraries on Africa" final plenary overview to SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference, June 25–26 2012, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, Scolma Conference on 'Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age'
[with Chris Saunders], "Doing Southern African history in the digital era", SCOLMA 50th anniversary conference, June 25–26 2012, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, Scolma Conference on Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
"Dis/connects: Building and maintaining digital libraries on Africa" seminar, Bunda Colege of Agriculture, Lilongwe, Malawi, June 2012
"Dr A.B. Xuma: His Life and Works", address to book launch, Cape Town Book Fair, June 2012
"Dr A. B. Xuma, Norman Levy, and Nelson Mandela" panel discussion, Cape Town Book Fair, June 2012
"Dr A.B. Xuma: His Life and Works", address to book launch, Van Riebeeck Society AGM, Rondebosch, Cape Town, June 2012
"Dr A.B. Xuma: His Life and Works", address to book launch, Sophiatown Heritage Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 June 2012
"African Associational Life and Journalism in Central Johannesburg of the 1910s" WISER seminar Wits University Johannesburg 11 June 2012
"Dr A.B. Xuma", live interview on SAfm radio, SABC, Auckland Park, 10 June 2012
"ANC @ 100", talk to the Kongomero / 'African Tea Time' Series on South Africa, March 2012
2011
"Putting African Historical Newspapers Online: Assessing Models, Scholarly Use, and Future Directions" in the panel New Models in Research and Publishing in African Studies, African Studies Association annual conference, November 2011
"The People and their Paper: Congresses, Classes, Chiefs, and Solidarities: a political and intellectual history of Abantu-Batho, 1912-1931" paper to 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), June 2011, Uppsala, Sweden
Discussant at panel, 'African Studies on the Web', 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), June 2011, Uppsala, Sweden
"Putting African Historical Newspapers Online: Assessing Models, Scholarly Use, and Future Directions", paper to European Lirbarians in African Studies (ELIAS) conference June 2011 Uppsala, Sweden
'"Whose Terms of Engagement? Popular Politics and African Intellectuals in Early Twentieth Century Southern Africa" MSU African Studies Center seminar panel, April 2011.
2010
"‘Terence Ranger, African Studies, and South African Historiography’ to Conference on ‘Making History: Terence Ranger & African Studies’, UI-UC October 2010.
"A Very, Very Wide Influence, Even When ... Dead”: The Early ANC and Black Workers in South Africa before World War II", seminar in 'OUR DAILY WORK/OUR DAILY LIVES' seminar series (co-sponsored by MSU African Studies Center and Museum) September 16.
"Personal Papers: What are the Issues for Libraries and Archives?" at conference on The Real Story? Personal Papers, Life Histories and Africa, Annual Conference of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa), British Library Conference Centre, London, 8th June 2010
"Michigan State University Libraries Partnerships with the University of Malawi and University of Nigeria Libraries" to Annual meeting of European Librarians in African Studies (ELIAS), 7th June 2010 British Library Conference Centre, London,April,
'Grappling with Grappling with the Beast: African intermediaries, African languages, and the ambiguity of African responses to colonialism", a book talk, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 23 April 2009
with Peter Alegi, Ken Harrow, Joseph Lauer, Peter Limb, Gabriel Dotto and Getahun Haile: "African Podcasts, Posters, Publishing and Papers: New Treasures of MSU's Africa Involvement" MSU African Studies Center seminar panel, October 8, 2009.
"African Biographies: Old Gaps, New Directions" paper to LCC Global Perspectives Conference on 'The Realities of Globalization: Past, Present and Future', Lansing Michigan April 2009
“Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Partnerships between Africa and the U.S. in the 21st Century” paper to symposium on "Obama and Africa: Which Way?”, Syracuse University, by The Africa Initiative of Syracuse University and Center for African Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, January 22-23, 2009.
2008
“Intermediaries in South African Labour Relations, 1890s-1920s: Class, Nation, Gender.” Paper to the workshop on “Intermediaries in Labour relations from pre-industrial societies to the XXth century,” Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 4-5 December 2008
Panelist on Roundtable panel on 'New Media and Southern African Studies in the 21st Century' at North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA) 17-19 October 2008, Burlington, Vermont
The Discussant, Roundtable panel on "Labor Studies and Working-Class Histories,' at North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA) 17-19 October 2008, Bishop Booth Center, Burlington, Vermont
"Digital Partnerships for African Studies: A State-of-the–Art Report" in Forum on 'From Printed Book to Digital File Libraries, Publishers and the Production of Knowledge about Africa' at the German-Swiss African Studies Conference "Grenzen und Übergänge - Frontiers and Passages". German and the Swiss African Studies Organisations (VAD and SAG), Freiburg (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland) May 14-17 2008.
2007
Roundtable presentation
on ''African Writing, African Publishing, African Repositories: Globalization
& Beyond' at AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 50th ANNUAL MEETING, New York, October-2007.
Discussant, First Annual MSU African Studies Graduate Student Conference,
September 28-29 2007, Panel on "Religion in Politics, Art in History,
& Empire on the Periphery"
"Strategic Partnership
Panel Report: Nigeria" September 27, 2007 Panel discussion with Nwando
Achebe, Peter Limb, and Chidozie Amuzie, MSU African Studies Center Brown
Bag Series
2006
"Anti-Apartheid, Anti-Racist
Movements in Australia & New Zealand, ca. 1930s-1994: Origins and Insights".
seminar, UWA November 2006.
"Advances in the
Digitization of Africa: African and American Projects" seminar to the
Musee d'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, October 2006
"Politics, Expropriation,
and Partnership in African Digital Projects" paper to the Workshop on
"The Politics of Digital Projects in Africa" University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, August 2006.
2005
"I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindi ezindlwini (Congress' Name is Household)":
Politics and Labor in 1920s South Africa" paper to the seminar of the
African History Research Group, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, December
2005
"The Digitization of Africa, or, Reflections on African Studies in the
"Belly of the Beast." seminar paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia,
University of Western Australia, September, 2005.
2004
"Apartheid, Solidarity,
and Globalisation: Lessons from the History of the Anti-Apartheid Movements,"
paper to the African Studies Center Michigan State University, Brown Bag series,
Oct. 2004.
"Apartheid, Solidarity, and Globalisation: Lessons from the History
of the Anti-Apartheid Movements," paper to the International Conference
on a Decade of Freedom and the International Anti-Apartheid Movements, Durban,
South Africa,10-13 October 2004. http://www.anc.org.za/un/conference/
"Apartheid, Solidarity, & Globalisation" seminar paper to African
Studies Centre of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, September,
2004.
2003
"Africa and World
History" seminar paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia,
University of Western Australia, October, 2003.
"CAMP and African
Newspaper Microfilm Preservation and Digitisation" paper to SA Newspaper
Seminar, "Opportunities for Newspaper Preservation and Access in South
Africa," National Library of South Africa, March 2003.
"Scholarly Book Reviewing: History, Electronic Developments, and the
Future" paper to Panel on Making Electronic Scholarship (chair: Harold
Marcus), American Historical Association annual conference, Chicago, January
2003.
2002
"The African National
Congress and the Indian National Congresses: A comparative history of strategies,
relationships and identities," paper to African Studies Association annual
conference, Washington DC, December 2002
"'Class, Nation and Gender
in South Africa'" paper to African Studies Centre of Western Australia seminar,
November 2002
"From the Mahatma to Mandela: a Comparison of the African National Congress
and the Indian National Congress," paper to combined seminar of the South
Asian Research Unit and the School of Social Sciences, Curtin University,
November 2002
"'Attitudes to Class,
Nation and Gender in the Early African National Congress (ANC)'" paper
to 'Class, Gender, and Ideology', Twenty-Fourth Annual North American Labor
History Conference Wayne State University, Detroit, October 17-19, 2002
"Accessing African
Archives, Libraries, & Journals: Partnerships, Ethics and Equity in the
21st Century," paper to AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION IN THE
NEW MILLENNIUM, University of Oxford, 25-26 June 2002 Conference to mark 40th
anniversary of the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (SCOLMA)
(invited)
"Ambiguous Loyalties
and Identities among ANC Leaders," paper to the Canadian Association
of African Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Canada, May
2002
"Ethical Dilemmas
Facing Africanists Today: The Document Drain," paper to University of
Michigan African Studies Group Workshop, Ann Arbor, February 2002
"The
Ambiguities of British Empire Loyalism and Identities in the Politics and
Journalism of Early ANC Leaders," paper to the 'International History
Conference on the British Empire and the Creation of British Identities,' University
of Cape Town, January 9-11, 2002
2001
"Identities, Empires,
and Ambiguities in South Africa," paper to African Studies Centre of Western
Australia, University of Western Australia, 5-December, 2002.
"H-Africa and Associated
Networks: the Development of the Review Process, 1995-2001", (presentation)
Affiliated meetings, Houston, ASA, November 2001
[with Joe
Lauer] "Resources on Africa: New Developments," seminar to African
Studies Center, Michigan State University, September 2001 (presentation)
"Changing
Paradigms of Libraries, e-Publishing, Partnerships, and a New Role for Librarians,"
paper to the University of Zimbabwe Library faculty, August 2001
"Rethinking
Early ANC Attitude to Workers: Sol Plaatje’s Attitudes to Labour, Empire,
and Gender,” seminar paper, RAU Sociology Seminar series, Sociology
Dept., Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, July 2001
"New
Perspectives an Africa's Oldest Liberation Movement: ANC Studies Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow," seminar paper to University of South Africa, History
Department, July 2001
"African
Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Net: Partner or Perish?," paper
to University of Botswana faculty, July 2001
Conference
Report, to the South African Historical Society Conference, Mafikeng, July
2001 (invited)
"The 'Other' Sol
Plaatje: Rethinking Plaatje's Attitudes to Empire, Labor and Gender,"
paper to the South African Historical Society Biennial Conference, Mafikeng,
South Africa, July 2001
"The
Other Sol Plaatje" paper to the Canadian Association of African Studies
Annual Conference, Quebec Université, Quebec Cité, Canada, May 2001
2000
"New
scenarios on Africa, African Studies, and the Net," paper to 'Africa
2000: Links, Land, and Identities' Conference of the Curtin Africa
Teaching and Research Group and African Studies Centre of Western Australia,
in collaboration with the John Curtin International Institute, Perth, July,
2000
"Africa
and the Net: the H-Africa Family of Scholarly Discussion Lists," paper
to 'The Electronic Future: Africa on the Net' conference,
38th Annual General Meeting of the Standing Conference on Library materials
on Africa (SCOLMA), Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, June
2000
"Africa
and the Internet: Progress and Problems with Networking African Studies"
seminar to African Studies Center, Michigan State University, June 2000
1999
"Secrecy,
Solidarity, and Survival: Political Tactics and Glasnost in the Early History
and Historiography of the ANC" paper to South African Historical Society
biennial conference, University of the Western Cape, July 1999 (also
presented at History Dept. Seminar, Rhodes University, July 1999)
"'Thrilling
Stories of Bloody Encounters': Representations of Workers, and References
to History, in the South African Black Press, 1897-1997" Govan Mbeki
Centre Seminar, University of Fort Hare, July 1999
Pre-1999 (selected only)
"Representations of Labour, and References to History, in the South African
Black Press, 1897-1997" paper to AFSAAP Annual Conference, Melbourne,
June 1998
"Black
South Africans' Access to the Internet," African Studies Association
(U.S.) Annual Conference, San Francisco, November 1996
Paper to Panel on 'Contemporary South Africa' with Joan Wardrop, Jabu Matsebula,
and Tim Dauth
"Alliance
Strengthened or Diminished? Relationships between Labour and African Nationalist
Movements," to International Conference on Dynamics of Change in Southern
Africa, University of Melbourne, 1992. Published at: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37/069.html
"Worker-Nationalists,
Nationalist-Workers, or Just Plain Workers? The ANC and Black Workers"
Conference on 'Making Peace in Rapidly Changing Africa' University of Western
Australia, 1991
"Workers,
the ANC & the Politics of Change in South Africa" AFSAAP, Deakin
University, 1990
"South
African Labour History: Some Historiographical Sources and Ideological
Battles" paper to African Seminar, African Research Institute, La
Trobe University, 1987
Chairing of Conference Panels, Roundtables, and Meetings (selected)
2013
Panel on 'Freedom Struggles in the Free State' at the 24th biennial conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27-29 June 2013
2011
ECAS, June 2011, Uppsala, Sweden: chair panel on History of Popular Politics in Southern Africa (to be confirmed)
Uppsala, June Sweden: chair pre-conference Symposium on African Political History, Biography and Intellectuals, DHF
2009
"African Podcasts, Posters, Publishing and Papers: New Treasures of MSU's Africa Involvement" MSU African Studies Center seminar panel, October 8, 2009.
Panel on "Pre-Colonial West and East Africa" at the Conference on RETHINKING AFRICA & THE ATLANTIC WORLD, University of Stirling, 3-6 September 2009
2007
Roundtable: 'African Writing,
African Publishing, African Repositories: Globalization & Beyond' at AFRICAN
STUDIES ASSOCIATION 50th ANNUAL MEETING on '21st Century Africa: Evolving
Conceptions of Human Rights', New York, October-2007, with Walter Bgoya, African
Books Collective, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, U of Illinois at Chicago, Ruby Bell-Gam,
U of California-Los Angeles, Peter Limb, Michigan State U, andAlfred Kagan,
U of Illinois.
Panel on "Great Treks and Transformations in Southern African History"
African Studies Association annual conference, New Orleans, November 2004
Roundtable panel on "African e-Publishing and Access," African Studies
Association annual conference, Washington DC, December 2002
Seminar by Dr. Charles Eaton (on contract farming in Africa) to Michigan State
University African Studies Center, July 2002
Seminar by Professor Thomas Turner (University of Rwanda) (on war and peace
in the Great Lakes of Africa) to Michigan State University African Studies
Center, August 2002
Seminar by Professor Jeremy Seeking (Cape Town), to Michigan State University
African Studies Center, May 2002
H-Africa Meetings (two), African Studies Association annual conference, Houston,
Texas, 2001
'Africa and the Internet:
L'Afrique et l'Internet' at Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference,
Quebec Universite, May 2001
Conference Report, South African Historical Society Biennial Conference,
Mafikeng, July 2001
(invited)
'Southern Africa In Transition' at Canadian Association of African
Studies Annual Conference, University of Alberta, May 2000
'The Press in Africa' (panel 34) and 'ANC Biography & Iconography'
(Panel 75) at International Conference on New African Perspectives, African
Studies Association of Australasia, University of Western Australia, Perth,
26-28 Nov. 1999
'Gender In Southern Africa' and 'Labour in South Africa' panels at African Studies
Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference (AFSAAP '98), Melbourne,
Australia, June 1998
Selected
Book Reviews
(i) On Africa (see also 'Southern Africa' and 'Libraries')
Bibliographic Surveys and Review Articles
"Across
North-West Africa in a Dictionary": [review article of: Anthony Pazzanita,
Historical Dictionary of Mauritania. 2nd ed.; Pascal James Imperato,
Historical Dictionary of Mali. 3rd ed., Both: Lanham: Scarecrow Press,
1996 in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review
1998
"African Studies
on the Net: Update" African Studies Association of Australasia and
The Pacific Review and Newsletter Volume XXII Number 1 June 2000, p. 84
"African
Historical Dictionaries: Quo Vadis?": Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Richard
A.Lobban ...., in African Studies Association of Australasia & the
Pacific Review & Newsletter
"Condensing
History" [review article of: Hector Blackhurst, East and Northeast
Africa Bibliography (Scarecrow Area Bibliographies, 7), 1996; Kenneth
J. Perkins, Historical dictionary of Tunisia 2nd edition,
1997; Lawrence Rupley and Daniel Miles McFarland, Historical Dictionary
of Burkina Faso (African Historical Dictionaries, 74) 2nd edition, 1998;
Christopher Saunders and Nicoholas Southey, Historical Dictionary
of South Africa (African Historical Dictionaries, 37) , 2000 and Thomas
Kerlin Park, Historical Dictionary of Morocco (African Historical Dictionaries
Series, 71), 1996: all Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, in The Australasian
Review of African Studies 23 1 June 2001
McIlwaine,
John, Africa: a Guide to Reference Material (London: H. Zell, 1993);
in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review
& Newsletter
"New
Books from West Africa": W.E.F. Ward, My Africa (Accra: Ghana
Universities Press, 1991); and C. Onyeka Nwanunobi, African Social Institutions
(Nsukka) in AFSAAP Review
"Recent
Reference Works & Serials from Africa": Index of African Social Science
Periodical Articles (CODESRIA, 1989) vol. 1, in AFSAAP Review June
1991, pp. 33-34
Selected Individual Reviews on Africa in General
Arhin, Kwame(Arhin Brempong).
Transformations and Traditional Rule in Ghana (1951-1996) Accra: Sedco,
2001 [2002]. African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, pp. 31-32.
Badsha, Omar ed., Guy
Tillim & O. Badsha, photographs, Julia Maxted, text. Amulets & Dreams:
Youth, War & Change in Africa. (Pretoria: South African History Online
in cooperation with Institute for Security Studies and Unisa Press, 2002),
African Book Publishing Record vol. 30(1) 2004, pp. 32-33.
Baker, Philip (comp.), International directory of African studies research
3rd ed (London: Zell, 1994), AFSAAP Review 1995
Brooks, Philip (director). 6000 A Day: An Account of a Catastrophe Foretold.
Paris: Dominant 7/Arte in association with Steps for the Future; Brooklyn:
First Run/Icarus Films, 2001. Video. Reviewed for H-SAfrica, May 2004.
Chabal, Patrick,
The Post-Colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (Witwatersrand University
Press, 1996), in African Book Publishing Record 1997
Chambua, Samuel E.. Democratic Participation in Tanzania: The Voices of
Workers Representatives. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press,
2002, in African Book Publishing Record 2004.
Chami, F., Pwiti, G. & Radimilahy, C., eds. Climate change, trade and modes
of production in sub-Saharan Africa, in African Book Publishing Record
2005.
Chole, E.,
Democratisation Processes in Africa. Problems and Prospects (CODESRIA,
1995), in African Book Publishing Record 2000
Chronicle
of a Genocide Foretold [film review] (New York: First Run/Icarus Films,
1996), Published by H-AfrLitCine (February, 2000)
Collins,
Robert O. The Waters of the Nile: an Annotated Bibliography
(London: Zell) in African Studies Association of Australasia & the
Pacific Review & Newsletter
Eggers, Ellen
K. Historical Dictionaryof Burundi. 2nd ed. Lanham : Scarecrow Press,
1997. African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review
& Newsletter v. 20 no. 1 June 1998
Ekeh, Peter P. ed.
Warri City and British Colonial Rule in Western Niger Delta. Buffalo,
NY [printed Ibadan, Nigeria]: Urhobo Historical Society, 2004 [2005], inAfrican
Book Publishing Record, 2006
Freeman-Grenvile,
G.S.P., The New Atlas of African History (New York: Simon &
Shuster, 1991) in African Studies Association of Australasia &
the Pacific Review & Newsletter
French, Tom,
The SCOLMA Directory of Libraries and Special Collections on Africa
in the United Kingdom and in Europe 5th ed. London ; New York :
Zell, 1993, in AFSAAP Review 1994
Severino Fuli Boki Tombe
Ga'le. Shaping a Free Southern Sudan: Memoirs of Our Struggle 1934-1985.
[Torit; Limuru (printed)]: Loa Catholic Mission Council, 2002, African
Book Publishing Record, 2004
Gertzel,
Cherry, Uganda: an Annotated Bibliography of Source Materials: with
particular reference to the period since 1971 (London: H. Zell, 1991)
in AFSAAP Review
Gordon, David M., Nachituti's gift : economy, society, and environment
in central Africa Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, Choice
2006.
Hall, David E.. African Acronyms and Abbreviations: a Handbook. (London:
Mansell, 1996), Australian Library Review 1996
Hasan, Yusuf and Richard Gray, Editors. Religion and conflict in Sudan:
Papers from an International Conference at Yale, May 1999. Nairobi: Paulines
Publications Africa, 2002. (Faith in Sudan; no. 12.) African Book Publishing
Record, 2004
Hull, Richard. Jews and Judaism in African history. Markus Wiener, 2009. CHOICE January 2010
Kessel, I. van (ed.). Merchants, missionaries & migrants : 300 years of
Dutch-Ghanaian relations. Amsterdam : KIT Publishers ; Accra, Ghana :
Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002, in African Book Publishing Record vol.
29(2) 2003, p. 117.
Lems-Dworkin,
Carol. African Music: a Pan-African Annotated Bibliography (London:
Hans Zell Publishers, 1993) in African Studies Association of Australasia
& the Pacific Review & Newsletter
Lulat, Y. G.-M. A history of African higher education from antiquity to
the present : a critical synthesis Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005., Choice
April 2006.
McIlwaine,
John, Africa: a Guide to Reference Material (London: Hans Zell, 1993)
in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review
& Newsletter
McIlwaine, John, Africa: A Guide to Reference Material 2nd revised
and expanded edition 2007, in African Book Publishing Record
forthcoming
Ama Mazama (ed.), Africa in the 21st century: toward a new future,
Routledge, 2007, forthcoming
Moser, Gerald, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa
(London ; New York : Hans Zell Publishers, 1993) in Australian Library
Review
Mukiibi, Joseph. Agriculture in Uganda. 4 volumes (Kampala: Fountain
Publishers, 2001) in African Book Publishing Record vol. 29(3) 2003,
p. 233.
Nunez, Benjamin,
Dictionary of Portuguese-African Civilization v.1-2 (London:
Zell) in Australian Library Review.
Price, Helen,
Hewson, Colin, Blake, David. Theses on Africa, 1976-88, in Australian
Library Review.
Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. and Edmund Abaka eds. W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa, Left Coast, 2012, CHOICE March 2013
Sears, Christine E. American slaves and African masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Choice, 2013
Segal, Aaron,
Atlas of International Migration, (London: Hans Zell, 1993) in
Australian Library Review.
Sicherman,
Carol, Ngugi wa Thion'go: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
(London: Zell) in Australian Library Review.
Smyth, Annie and Adam Seftel (editors), Tanzania. The Story of Julius
Nyerere. (Kampala: Fountain Publ., 1999) in African Book
Publishing Record 2001
Roger Southall and Henning Melber (eds) A New Scramble for Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009, ABRP, 2010
Steinhart, Edward I., Conflict and Collaboration in the Kingdoms of Western
Uganda. (Kampala: Fountain Publ., 1999) [reprint: 1st.
publ. 1977] in African Book Publishing Record 2001
Sturges,
Paul, and Neill, Richard. The Quiet Struggle: Information and Libraries
for the People of Africa. 2nd ed. London: Mansell, 1998, in Australian
Library Journal May 48 (2) 1999 201-2.
Olufemi Vaughan (editor).Indigenous Political Structures and Governance
in Africa. Ibadan: Sefer, 2003, in African Book Publishing Record
vol. 30 2004.
Ernest J. Wilson and Kelvin R. Wong, eds. Negotiating the Net in Africa:
The Politics of Internet Diffusion. Boulder: Lynne Rienner 2007, Canadian
Journal of African Studies, forthcoming 2008
Young, Josiah
U., African Theology: a Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography(Greenwood
Press) in Australian Library Review.
Zegeye, A.
and Ishemo S. (ed.), Forced Labour and Migration: Patterns of Movement
within Africa (London: H. Zell, 1989) in African Studies Association
of Australasia & the Pacific Review & Newsletter
Zell, Hans
M. (ed.), The African Studies Companion in AFSAAP Review
Zell, Hans
M. Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing, 2008, in Research in African Literatures 2009
(ii). Reviews on South and Southern Africa
Review Articles
External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990. By STEPHEN ELLIS. London: Hurst, 2012 and Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. By BARRY GILDER. London: Hurst, 2012, forthcoming, 2013.
Reviews
O. Akinkugbe and Kunene, V. Education financing and budgetary reforms in
Africa: The Swaziland Case Study CODESRIA, 2001, in African Book Publishing
Record vol. 29(2) 2003, p. 115.
Peter Alegi Laduma! Soccer, Politics and Society in South Africa Scottsville:
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004, in African Book Publishing Record
2007? .
Peter Alexander, Workers,
War and the Origins of Apartheid: Labour and Politics in South Africa 1939-48
(Oxford: J. Currey 2000) in Journal
of Southern African Studies vol.27 no.4 Dec. 2001 pp. 869-71
Simon Bekker
and David Carlton, eds. Racism, Xenophobia and Ethnic Conflict. (Durban:
Indicator South Africa, 1996), in African Book Publishing Record 1997.
Bergh, Johan S. & Fred
Morton, "To make them serve..." The 1871 Transvaal Commission on African
labour. African Book Publishing Record, 2005.
Bhana, Surendra and Goolam Vahed. The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi
in South Africa, 1893-1914. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005, forthcoming 2006.
George Bizos.
No One to Blame? : In Pursuit of Justice in South Africa. (Cape
Town: David Philip; Cape Town: Mayibuye Books, 1998), in African Book Publishing
Record
Trudie
Bloem, Krotoa-Eva (Cape Town: Kwela Books,1999) in
African Book Publishing Record 2000.
Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Graham Erion eds. Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009, African Book Publishing
Record.
Michael Bourdillon
(ed.), Earning a Life: Working children in Zimbabwe Harare: Weaver
Press, 2000, African Book Publishing Record 2002
Marj Brown,
Justin Erasmus, Rosalie Kingwill and Monty Roodt, A Long Way Home: Land
Restitution in South Africa (Cape Town: IDASA, 1998) in African Book
Publishing Review.
Fran Buntman, Robben Island and prisoner resistance to apartheid. (Cambridge
University Press, 2003), Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 31, Number
3, September 2005, pp. 666-668.
Benedict Carton, John Laband and Jabulani Sithole eds. Zulu identities : being Zulu, past and present. Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008, in Choice 2009
Masauko Chipembere, Hero of the Nation: Chipembere of Malawi: An Autobiography.
(Blantyre: Kachere, 2002), in African Book Publishing Record 2002
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Conference
& Colloquia Organizing, Seminars & Extra-Mural Education
Organizer, "African Conflict in the Horn and Southern Africa" 1990,
Perth, seminar with Professor Terence Ranger (Oxford) and Professor Samuel
Makinda (Murdoch).
Coordinator and Organizer,
"African Cultures, Societies and Images" Summer School Course, UWA
Extension, 1998.
Organizer, social event to celebrate the third anniversary of the W.A. African
Studies Seminars, and to meet the new UWA Vice-Chancellor, Deryck Schreuder,
1998
Co-organizer, International Conference 'New
African Perspectives: Africa, Australasia & the Wider World at the End
of the 20th Century' of the African Studies Association
of Australasia and the Pacific 1999.
Co-organizer, Conference of the Curtin Africa Teaching & Research Group
and African Studies Centre of Western Australia, in collaboration with
the John Curtin International Institut, July, 2000 'Africa
2000: Links, Land, and Identities'
Coordinator,
African Studies Centre of Western Australia 1997-2000
Co-organizer, Colloquium on "Sudan: Peace, Reconstruction and Policy,"
Michigan State University, 13 May 2005
Organizer: "African Podcasts, Posters, Publishing and Papers: New Treasures of MSU's Africa Involvement" MSU African Studies Center seminar panel, October 8, 2009.
Organizer: panel on African Political History, Biography and Intellectuals, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2011
Organizer/Chair of visiting scholarly speakers:
Michigan State University, African Studies Center & History Dept/
Barry Gilder, November 2013
Prof. David Killingray, October 2013
Dr. Peter Lekgoathi, September 2013
Professor Robert Edgar, History, Febraury 2008
Peter Davis (Villon Films) on documentary film and apartheid. April 2004.
Prof. Thomas Turner
(University of Rwanda) August 2003, on Rwandan elections.
Prof John Daniel,
Human Science Research Council, South Africa (on the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission) 2002
Dr. Amos Anyimadu, University of Legon, Ghana May 2002 (on informaton
and citizenship in Ghana)
Professor Jeremy Seekings, Politics, University of Cape Town/Yale University,
May 2002 (on social welfare in Africa)
Dr. Charles Eaton, University of Western Australia, July 2002 (on contract
farming)
Professor Thomas Turner (University of Rwanda) August 2002 (on war and
peace in the Great Lakes), August 2002
African Studies Centre of Western Australia
1997:
Panel on East Africa
with Cherry Getrzel, Sam Makinda, and Francis Okeny Olaka
1998:
Prof. Sheridan Johns,
Duke University ("Imperial Preference: The Case of the Comintern & South
Africa")
Patrick Nkhoma, Notre
Dame University ("The Impact of Foreign Aid on Primary Education in Influencing
Poverty Reduction- A Zambian Case Study (1964 -1997)"
Saskia van Hoyweghen, Free University, Brussels ("Rwanda: issues of land
reform, & refugee & exile re-integration/reconciliation")
Dr. Sam Makinda, Murdoch University and Dr. Catherine Macdonald ("Indigenous
Rights in Africa")
Prof. Beverley Ormerod,
UWA, "The Caribbean diaspora's view of Africa as expressed in literature"
Steve Rametse, Murdoch
University "South Africa: Theories on Change and their Relevance in the
Post-Apartheid Period"
1999:
Dr. Heidi HUDSON,
(U. of the Orange Free State) " 'Caring' Security in Africa".
Dr. Jane CARRUTHERS,
(University of South Africa) "Protected for the people or against the
people? National Parks and Game Reserves in the Transvaal and Natal"
Dr. Hélène JACCOMARD,
(School of European Studies, UWA), "Beur et Beurette" [Maghebian immigrants
in France].
Mr. Nathan NEMBOUSSE
& Ms. Francoise FALCONER (Chad Social Justice Bouladeouje) "What's happening
in Chad today."
Prof. Mel PAGE, (Tennessee
State University) "The Internet, Pedagogy, and Africa."
2000:
Dr Xolani H. Mkhwanazi
(CEO, National Electricity Regulator South Africa) "People, Power and
the Promise of a Better Life in South Africa"
Rita Pasqualini (Murdoch
University) "Languages of Empire[s] in the Horn of Africa"
Dr Mia Roth (Vista
University) "Winnie Mandela & the TRC"
Professor Martin Klein
(University of Toronto) "The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development
of Slavery within Africa"
Wessel Visser (Dept
of History, Stellenbosch University) "White Labour Aristocracy and Black
Proletariat"
Dr Jane Carruthers
(History Dept., University of South Africa) "Urban land claims in South
Africa: The case of Lady Selborne township, Pretoria, Gauteng"
Media and podcast interviews
Interview with Peter Limb about the life and times of Dr A.B. Xuma on the podcast "Africa Past and Present": http://afripod.aodl.org/
Interview with Peter Limb live on SAfm radio about Dr A.B. Xuma http://www.youtube.com/user/SABCSAFM?feature=mhee
Current
research interests
The Freedom Struggle in the Free Stae
book, papers
The South African empire
papers, possible book
Intellectual History
and the Scholarly Process:
Digitization trends in
the scholarly world (book)
History of the black press and associational life in South Africa (book)
The Digitization of Africa (articles)
Africana Journals (chapter)
History, Development and
Future of the Book Review (paper, article)
Ethics and Archives (three
articles)
Africa and the Internet
(articles)
African digital libraries (chapter)
African identities, black politics, class and nationalism:
The Indian National Congress
& African National Congress: a comparative history (African nationalism
and Indian nationalism compared (papers; book projected)
A new history of the liberation movement (book)
Sol Plaatje's attitudes to gender, class and Empire (papers , articles)
ANC history and identities/the
black press (papers, articles, two books published)
Attitudes of African Nationalists
to the British Empire (papers, articles)
The International Anti-Apartheid
Movement: South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the US
The ANC, the ALP and the anti-anti-apartheid movement (book and articles)
Papers, article, chapter published,
book projected
History of political parties and the anti-apartheid movement (commissioned booklet)
Biography/Critical editions
Edited collection of A.B. Xuma's primary
papers (book published)
Nelson Mandela biography (book published)
Gender, Nationalism, and Labour History:
Attitudes of African Nationalists
and Labor Leaders to gender (papers, article)
African women in early African politics 1890s-1930
Tours/Services for Professional Visitors (selected)
NEH African History Summer Instuitutre, July 2013
Pumeza Mandela, Neslon Mandela Museum, October 2010
Vice Chancellor, University
of Nigeria, Nsukka, January 2006
Ambassador of Kenya to
the U.S. March 2004
Professor Andre Odendaal University of the Western Cape. 2004.
Professor Marcellina Chijoriga, University of Dar es Salaam, July 2002
Professor Fernanda Angius, Mozambique, July 2002
Mary Jay, Manager,African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford
Valmont Layne (District Six Musem, South Africa) April 2002
Dr. Graham Dominy, the National Archivist of South Africa, June, 2002
Robin Trehaeven (Deputy Librarian, University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
July 2002
Abdoulaye Toure, historian and museologist, IFAN Dakar, 2001
Professional
Workshops and Presentations
with Peter Alegi, Ken Harrow, Joseph Lauer, Peter Limb, Gabriel Dotto and Getahun Haile: "African Podcasts, Posters, Publishing and Papers: New Treasures of MSU's Africa Involvement" MSU African Studies Center seminar panel, October 8, 2009.
[with Nwando Achebe] strategic partnership meetings with faculty
and librarians, over five days. University of Nigeria, Nsukka, July 2007,
[with David Wiley] 'The
African e-Journals Project' presentation, to MSU African Studies Center Seminar
on MSU's e-Resources on Africa: Food Security, Films & Videos, e-Journals,
Languages, and More" January 19, 2006
[with David Wiley] 'The
African e-Journals Project' presentation to national meeting of Project Directors,
Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA),U.S.
Department of Education, Duke University, March 2002.
[with David Wiley and
others] "New Directions and Projects in MSU Partnerships in South Africa,"
African Studies Center, MSU seminar, March 2002.
Africana reference sources, presentation to MSU Library Reference faculty,
February 2002.
[with Joe Lauer] "Resources
on Africa: New Developments," African Studies Center, Michigan State
University, September 2001
Workshop on e-Resources
for seven visiting faculty, University of the North West, May 2001
Workshops on e-Resources for CASID gradiate students, University of the North
West, May 2001
"Changing Paradigms of Libraries, e-Publishing, Partnerships, and a New
Role for Librarians," paper to the University of Zimbabwe Library faculty,
August 2001
[with Shane White) "Explaining
MARC Records" UWA Library, 1997.
Humanities
Computing
I have developed skills
in humanities computer networking, web programs, LISTSERV, and some
experience of HTML and SGML. In 1996, I was appointed a
co-editor of H-Africa and in 1999 a co-editor of H-SAfrica. In these positions
I am responsible for online management and development of scholarly lists
with many hundreds of subscribers world-wide. I have been involved in planning,
initiating and executing new features and networks. In 2000 I
was elected to H-Net Executive Council.
Exhibitions
"Aboriginal Australia," Reid Library, 1990 (with Allison Kershaw)
African and Aboriginal Comparative Art Exbition, Perth, 1999 (co-consultant)
'Zulu Vistas', MSU Libraries,
February-March 2006
"South African Labor History and Culture" exhibition, MSU Libraries,
October-December 2006
"Southern Sudan: in conjunction with 'One Book One Community's' 'They Poured Fire On Us from the Sky', MSU Libraries, October 2008
"
Barack Obama and Africa", MSU Libraries, January-February 2009
"World Cup Soccer, Africa, and MSU Libraries" June-August 2010
"50 Years of African Studies and Africana Libraries at MSU, March-April 2011"
"100 Years of the ANC @ MSU Libraries", Exhibiton, August-October 2012
Non-degree course work
Various library and university
technical and management courses
Shona language course, July 2001
Xhosa language 2006/7
Languages
French, Italian,
limited Shona, Portuguese, Setswana, Xhosa, IsiZulu.
Selected Community Positions
National
Coordinator, C.A.R.E. 1987-90
(anti-apartheid, multiculturalism, race relations)
President/Secretary, WA C.A.R.E., 1985-1993
(anti-apartheid,
multiculturalism, race relations)
Co-Chair, Sudan Rehabilitation and Relief (Perth), 1993-1997
Convenor, MSU Sudan Group, 2005.
Faculty Advisor, Sudan
Awareness and Support Group (MSU), 2005-8
Member of the Board, Southern Sudan Rescue and Relief Association (Lansing,
MI)
Last updated: 26 November 2013