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Trial access to Africa Commons
By Sarah Gilmore, on 4 March 2025
UCL has trial access to Africa Commons until 31st March 2025.
Africa Commons is a project from Coherent to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. The database consists of five collections:
- African History and Culture – an index, search engine and preservation tool for more than 500,000 openly available books, magazines, and other primary sources
- Black South African Magazines – the first and only digital collection of magazines created for Black audiences in Africa from 1937 to 1973.
- Southern African Films and Documentaries – hundreds of African documentaries, oral histories, and other films for study and learning.
- East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Archive – collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from the legendary Kenyan journalist, Hilary Ng’weno.
- West African Magazines – collection of rare, historically significant magazines from West Africa, digitized for the first time.
Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian
4 Responses to “Trial access to Africa Commons”
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Sarah Gilmore wrote on 23 April 2025:
Many thanks for the feedback. A final decision is in the process of being made. Any subscription will be publicised via the blog.
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Lydia Grant wrote on 11 April 2025:
Hi,
I am wondering if we will get access to this again. I was really enjoying it.
Warmly,
Lydia -
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Sarah Gilmore wrote on 23 April 2025:
Many thanks for the feedback. A decision about whether to subscribe is currently being made.
This is a fantastic resource which I really hope we can keep as an ongoing subscription. It is very useful for my research and teaching focused on decolonising Library and Information Studies.