
The vibrant lives of old Claremont
The preservation of nostalgia by evicted black residents of one of Cape Town’s now very white suburbs.
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Liz Timbs is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in African History at North Carolina State University. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country.
The preservation of nostalgia by evicted black residents of one of Cape Town’s now very white suburbs.
This tumblr focuses on reading, researching, and writing histories of intimacy, sex, and sexuality during Atlantic slave period.
An archive – stretching from 1820 to 1960 – of civil, police, and criminal records in colonial Banjul.
Organized at Harvard University, this digital library contains rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts.
A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.
Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa’s democratic president, Nelson Mandela.
An online archive of photos taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection housed in the UK’s National Archives.
Inaugurating our series on digital African projects. We’ll document projects working to make more resources about Africa’s past and present available online.