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UCL now has access to Africa Commons
By Sarah Gilmore, on 18 June 2025
UCL users now have access to Africa Commons from Coherent.
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.
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