Searching in AfricaLit Plus

The content of the collection is 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 each record in the result list, there is a Link to Table of content (PDF) where the item(s) can be found. Each record can contain several hits. For example, searching for Cabral results in 11 records. The table of contents of each record lead to an additional result of 100+ publications.

Country (sub)collection

By far the largest portion of the collection has been divided according to countries and regions; each of these sections having then been further subdivided into subject areas. The amount of material available differs from country to country, although the bulk of the information in the collection concerns the following countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

Under each country or region, the main subject headings in use are: agriculture, anthropology, development projects, economy, national liberation movements, politics, religious institutions and solidarity movements. Documents concerning the economy of South Africa can be found under South Africa: economy. Sometimes, however, it is easier and more natural to find certain documents under the organisation or institution by which it was published, rather than by subject. This means that documents concerning Shell in South Africa, for example, could be filed under politics or economy, although they are more likely to be found under solidarity movements or religious institutions, which have published such a vast amount of such material.

Under the category general - specific for each country - miscellaneous facts about that particular country can be found: geography, bibliographies, and documents concerning more than one subject. In cases where there are not enough documents on a particular subject to justify having its own box, the items have been filed under a related subject. In the case of certain countries, the documents available are so few that they have all been filed under general.

Subject (sub)collection

A second, smaller part of the collection has been divided into subject headings that are not country specific. This latter section represents a wide range of subjects pertaining to Africa and African affairs such as health issues, mass media, gender issues, and migration.

• Aid
  All documents concerning development aid have been filed under the heading Development projects.
  
  
• Anthropology, sociology, ethnology
  Anthropology, sociology and ethnology have been combined under the heading anthropology since there is insufficient material available on these subjects individually to fill a file. Should enough information become available under any of these subjects, however, they will then be allocated a separate file.
  
  
• Conferences
  Material from various conferences are not kept together, but are filed under their respective subjects. See also the library’s separate collection of conference proceedings.
  
  
• Conflicts
  Materials concerning conflicts have been placed in the same files regardless of their subject. That is to say, diverse subjects such as religion and weapons, as long as they relate to a specific conflict, will be found under conflicts. Two conflicts areas about which a great deal of material is to be found are Biafra and Southern Sudan.
  
  
• Eritrea
  All material concerning Eritrea, regardless of historical period, will be found under Eritrea.
  
  
• Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde
  All material from the period when Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde were united will be found under the country heading Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde.
  
  
• History
  Only documents with a general historical viewpoint have been filed under history. Historical aspects of various subjects are referred to the respective subject category. Agrarian history, for example, will be filed under agriculture.
  
  
• Languages used
  Documents written in Arabic or in African languages (with the exception of Swahili) have been placed in the file marked general
  
  
• Liberation movements
  All material published about liberation movements, irrespective of the subject, are be found in the same files.
  
  
• Religious institutions
  All material published by religious institutions, regardless of the subject, are to be found in the same files.
  
  
• Solidarity movements
  All material published by solidarity movements, regardless of subject, are to be found in the same files.
  
  
• Statistics/Economy
  Statistics have been put in the same file as economy. Under this category one will find descriptions of specific companies, annual reports, labour market/trade unions (if not written from a strictly political angle), industry and infrastructure.

There may be paywalls to reach the full text of articles. This list is primarily for documentation.

• van der Hoog , T., & Moore, B. C. (2022). "Paper, pixels, or plane tickets? Multi-archival perspectives on the decolonisation of Namibia". Journal of Namibian Studies : History Politics Culture, 32, 77–106. URL: https://namibian-studies.com/index.php/JNS/article/view/252 External link, opens in new window.
• Tycho van der Hoog (2022), "Research Note: the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Pamphlet Collection", Cold War History, 22:3, 363-368, DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2022.2076345 External link, opens in new window.
• "Afrikabibliotekets pärlor visas" External link, opens in new window., Upsala Nya Tidning, 2012-05-14
  
• "Femtio år av befrielserörelser" External link., Upsala Nya Tidning, 2012-03-05