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Africana at Kew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

James A. Casada
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Extract

Most readers of this journal will be intimately familiar with Noel Matthews and M. Doreen Wainwright's indispensable work, A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to Africa. However, it is virtually inevitable that in a comprehensive work of this nature (and I should indicate straight away that theirs is an exceptionally fine work) that there will be oversights, omissions, or less than adequately full listings. One case in point is the coverage Matthews and Wainwright devote to African material held in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Their listing, which covers pages 188-91 of the book, is accurate insofar as it goes, but it presents less than a total picture of the potential riches that await Africanists in a multitude of discplines who journey to Kew.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 16: Volumes 16 and 17 , 1978 , pp. 17 - 20
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 1978

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References

1 The Zambesi Expedition is probably the best documented of Livingstone's endeavours, and doubtless this explains the numerous modern treatments of the subject. Among those which touch some aspect of the expedition are Reginald Coupland, Kirk on the Zambesi; J. P. R. Wallis (ed), The Zambesi Journal of James Stewart and The Zambesi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858-1863; Owen Chadwick, Mackenzie's Grave, and Reginald Foskett (ed), The Zambesi Doctors. All would have been potentially richer with use of the material at Kew.

2 Examples are reports on cultivated products in Uganda, Zanzibar, and Abyssinia, and one on the growing of rubber in the British East Africa Protectorate.

3 de Gramont, Sanche, The Strong Brown God (Boston, 1975).Google Scholar

4 ‘Sir Harry Johnston as a Geographer’, which will appear in the November, 1977i number of Geographical Journal, and Sir Harry H. Johnston: A Bio-Bibliographical Study which is scheduled for publication late in 1977 as a volume in the Communications series of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien.

5 Flint, John, Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria (London, 1960).Google Scholar