African Street Literatures and the Future of Literary Form

This project, based at the Department of English at Uppsala University, covers emerging literary forms such as digital and spoken word poetry, blog fiction, street theatre and graphic novels, but also alternative ways of publishing novels and short stories. Texts collected within the project will be housed and made searchable through us at the NAI Library.

More about the project:

• Project page @ Dept of English, Uppsala university
  Project main webpage.
• Materials collected in the NAI Library
  Direct search returning everything added so far.
• "African Street Literature and the Future of Literary Form"
  Article in the journal African research & documentation no. 134.
  
• "African street literature enters the library" (2017-11-29)
  NAI news article (incl. interview) about the project.
• African Street Literatures blog
  The blog of the project.
  

Overview: During 2017–2019, we were able to set up a project to enhance the searchability of the country section of our pamhplet collection. Content lists of each box, containing some 10 to 100 items, were produced and uploaded as files making approximately 20.000 items (as of August 2019) searchable.

Access: The actual pamphlets are available only in print format and cannot be accessed electronically. The publications are not available for loan due to the uniqueness of the collection, but the collection can be consulted in our library and relevant information can be photocopied/scanned for individual use.

Searchability: The contents of the country section of this collection are searchable in AfricaLit Plus. It is possible to limit a search to the actual pamphlet collection by choosing Advanced search, typing in a search term and then choosing Material Type: Pamphlets. In the full view for each record in the result list, there is a Link to Table of contents (PDF) where the item(s) can be found.

• "UNESCO project documenting liberation struggle"

Written by NAI librarians.

Practical guidance on handbooks, databases, statistics and other support for literature and fact searches.

Target groups: university students and researchers, teachers and pupils at upper secondary schools and folk high schools, librarians, journalists and aid workers.

Download the entire book:

• Studying Africa (2014, 3rd ed.)

Download individual chapters:

• "Literature searching and searching for facts" / Marianne Andersson
• "Africa information on the Internet" / Kalle Laajala and Åsa Lund Moberg
• "Periodicals" / Birgitte Jansen
• "Statistics" / Ingela Dahlin
• "Official publications" / Mattias Åkesson

Has previously been published in both English and Swedish versions.

Only the English version has been revised for the third edition.

• Previous English versions: 2005, 2011.
• Previous Swedish(-Norwegian) versions: 2004, 2010.

Earlier editions include articles that are not in later editions.