New Web resource: Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library has just published a new website: Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century.

With 17 essays by various scholars, over 500 images, 8 maps, and 21 videos, Africana Age retraces a turbulent history of challenges, tragedies, and triumphs over the long century.

Essay topics include the Colonisation of Africa, Black Internationalism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pan-Africanism, African Resistance to Colonial Rule, Marcus Garvey, World War I, Caribbean Social Movements, African Decolonisation, Black Power, Caribbean Independence, the Contemporary Caribbean, and Contemporary Africa.


http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/

New Online Exhibition - Rhodesia UDI 1965

This new online exhibition showcases some of the materials within our Archives and Special Collections relating to Rhodesia and its unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) in 1965. The exhibition examines the following themes: The Road to UDI, Sanctions, African Nationalists, Reactions from the Commonwealth, and events after UDI.

The aim of this online exhibition is to promote the potential of archives and encourage existing, new and different users to experience all that archives have to offer. View the exhibition

Image: The President of U.A.N.C.: Bishop Abel Tendekai Muzorewa, 1980 Election poster