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Accessing UK Archival Holdings from South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Joanne Davis
Joanne Davis*
Affiliation:
Centre of World Christianity, SOAS University, London, United Kingdom
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This paper presents my ideals for ensuring that African researchers and those from the Global South achieve direct access to UK archival holdings with the time and consideration required to make substantive interventions in our research projects and fields of study. My observations and recommendations are derived from my experience of archival research gained as I travelled across the United Kingdom unearthing records of the 19th century Xhosa intellectual, the Reverend Tiyo ‘Zisani’ Soga, for my doctoral studies of Soga's English works. Soga had studied in Glasgow and Edinburgh between 1846 and 1856 and was ordained as a minister in the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (UPC); in 1857 he returned as a missionary to the AmaXhosa with his newly-wed bride, Janet, née Burnside.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 136: Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2020: Decolonising African Studies: Questions and Dilemmas for Libraries, Archives and Collections, Edinburgh, 10 June 2019 , 2019 , pp. 10 - 21
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 2019

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