During 1963 and 1964 theAfricana Newsletter published regularly surveys of ephemeral material (party pamphlets, rare newspapers, constitutions, reports of congresses, trade-union literature, hard-to-find government documents) on Portuguese African nationalist movements, the Camerouns, Nigeria, and the Congo. This material was then filmed and deposited in the Center for Research Libraries (formerly the Mid-West Inter-Library Center), Chicago, Illinois, for use by members of the Cooperative African Microfilm Project (CAMP). The Editors of theAfrican Studies Bulletin would like to continue this program of locating, listing, and collating rare African ephemeral materials. Please send inventories of your collection to the Editors. The original plea by Immanuel Wallerstein to cooperate in this program is reprinted from theAfricana Newsletter:

All of us when we go to Africa acquire, sometimes systematically, more often haphazardly, mimeographed and printed documents which we store, often unused, hopefully to be used in the future. Scattered issues of journals, when added together, can make nearly complete collections.

I have certainly collected many odd items which are of little immediate use to me but which might be invaluable to someone doing particular pieces of research. I would hope that photostats of all these items could be collected in a central place and thus be available to all scholars.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,currently offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses and seminarsthat concern themselves exclusively with the history, government, and socialorganization of the peoples of northern and sub-Saharan Africa. The Departmentof Tropical Public Health in the School of Public Health, the Law School, andthe School of Business Administration also find a place for Africa in theirrespective curricula. The Center for International Affairs has for a number ofyears sponsored an interdisciplinary faculty seminar on Africa. It has alsosupported research in the fields of African history and government and maintainsa continuing interest through its Development Advisory Service in the economicproblems of Africa.

The resources of the Harvard University library system serve these variedteaching and research needs. Of the more than 7 million volumes housed in thevarious constituent libraries of the University, approximately 34, 000 form thecore of the African collection. Much of this collection is scattered throughoutthe component libraries and, within each, shelved among a number of subjectclassifications. The largest single centralized Africana grouping is found,appropriately under “Africa,” in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. Itcontains about 14, 000 books and periodicals. A total of about 6, 000 additionalvolumes is classified according to language or under the categories Folklore,Archaeology, Economics, Education, Sociology, Geography, South America, andAsia. (Early printed titles are often housed, however, in the Houghton Library.)The Law School Library holds about 5, 500 volumes pertaining to Africa; nearlyhalf of its collection relates to the Republic of South Africa. The Library ofthe Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology contains about 2,400 volumes ofmonographs, 1, 600 volumes of serials, and several hundred pamphlets, all ofwhich, together with an index of periodical articles by author and subject,appear in the 53-volume printed catalogue of the Library. The Andover-HarvardTheological Library of the Harvard Divinity School has about 700 volumes thatdeal with the churches of the Republic of South Africa and some 1, 500 volumeson Protestant missions in tropical Africa. The libraries of the Harvard Schoolsof Medicine and Public Health, the Graduate School of Business Administration,the Graduate School of Public Administration, and the Museum of ComparativeZoology each contain several hundred books and serials directly relevant to thestudy of Africa. The Library of the Center for International Affairs alsomaintains a select collection of books and periodicals dealing with contemporaryAfrica.

Africana at Howard University, Washington, D.C., developed as records on the African background of the American Negro were required to supplement the Library's collection of works written by and about persons of African descent.

Among the first books acquired by the Library soon after Howard University was incorporated on March 2, 1867, were titles on Africa. Some of the founders of the University interested in foreign missions donated to the Library their files on periodicals, books of travel and description, histories of Africa, and biographies of missionaries. Among these was the first edition of Churchill'sCollection of Voyages and Travels issued in four volumes in 1704; seven editions of the works of Hiob Ludolf, the Elder ( …Historia Aethiopica, 1681; …Aethiopicam … commentarius, 1691; …Lexicon Amharico, 1698; …Grammatica Aethiopica, 1702;A New History of Ethiopia, 1682 and 1684); Barbot'sDescription of the Coasts of North and South Guinea (1732); the 1639 reissue of the 1632 edition ofAfricae descriptio of Leo Africanus; and works of travel by Bosman, Proyart, Kolbe, Bruce, Smith, Vaillant, and Sparrman. Some of the serial files presented were theMissionary Herald (1821-1882);Africa's Luminary (1839-1840);African Repository (1825-1900);Mouvement Antiesclavagiste (1889-1906);Liberia (1892-1908);Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (1833-1849);Afrique Explorée et Civilisée (1879-1882); andBulletin du Comité de l'Afrique Française (1891-1919).

The rising demand for out-of-print Africana, and indeed all rare and scholarly books, is stimulating unprecedented interest and reprinting activity among publishers. With programs and courses springing up all over the United States, Africa, and other parts of the world, librarians and scholars have found themselves in fierce competition for scarce materials on African subjects. Simultaneously, booksellers, at pains to meet this tremendous increase in demand, have found the supply of Africana dwindling and near depletion. However, because of the proliferation of publishing houses specializing in scholarly reprints, the solution to this problem seems to be close at hand.

If one may judge by the number of works which have already appeared and by those known to be in the planning stages, it would not seem very long before nearly all the most important works are republished. The following does not purport to be an exhaustive listing, but will serve to indicate the very large number of reprints recently published or forthcoming.

This is the second in a series of annual surveys of South African reference literature and follows the general pattern of the first review. Works published in 1963 which reached the compiler too late for inclusion in the earlier review are included in the present survey.

General Works. Among the generalia issued during the year was a second edition of E. Rosenthal'sEncyclopaedia of Southern Africa (London, Warne; R4-45 ). The South African Library Association issued aDirectory of Natal Libraries (Potchefstroom, The Association; 35c), one of a regional series, which will probably be superseded by a comprehensive “Directory of South African Libraries,” scheduled for publication by the State Library in 1965. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research published letters H and I ofPeriodicals in South African Libraries (Pretoria, The Council; R1O p. a.), which is a union list of serials held in South Africa.

Yearbooks. A very important reference work which appeared for the first time in 1964 was theStatistical Yearbook, compiled by the Bureau of Statistics (Pretoria, Government Printer; R4-15 overseas). The yearbook for 1964 contains 606 pages of statistical tables covering the period 1945-1963 and embracing the following subjects: population, migration, vital statistics, health, education, social security, judicial statistics, labor, prices, agriculture, fisheries, industry, trade, transport, communication, banking and finance. The last issue of theOfficial Yearbook of the Union of South Africa was No. 30 (1960), and later editions are still awaited. TheStatistical Yearbook fills a gap in this connection.