Found 2 collections related to Africa -- History -- 1960-

The London-based Transcription Centre was a cultural organization that produced and recorded audio interviews and programs related to arts and culture in Africa and across the African diaspora. The Transcription Centre Interviews with African Writers audio collection consists of 108 audio interviews and programs recorded between 1962 and 1970. Featuring African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, scholars, politicians, musicians, and other significant cultural figures, the recordings focus on African literature, art, history, politics, culture, and contemporary issues. The organization was later discovered to be funded by a CIA front organization. less

Jean Frances Herskovits (1935-2019) was a historian and educator of African history with a focus on Nigeria. The collection, dated 1920 to 2018, documents her scholarly research of the economic and political changes that were happening in West and Southern Africa. The files include correspondence, subject files, writings, printed matter, reports, speeches, maps, letters to her parents, calendars, and journals. less