Archival treat for scholars and students – University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library houses Onicha market literature collection

(University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

AS DETAILS below show (see link), this collection was initially made in 1966 by Thomas Buckman, a former Kansas University director of libraries, before the Onicha market (Biafra’s Oshimiri Delta) main repository of this historic literature was destroyed by the Nigerian vandal military during the Igbo genocide. This Kansas archive is the “first full-text digitization of the [Onicha] pamphlets”. “Just as eager readers purchased [Onicha] market literature 40-50 years ago”, the Kansas University Library aptly recalls, “this initiative makes [the] pamphlets accessible once again to a wide-ranging readership on the Internet”. 

Emmanuel Obiechina, the esteemed literary scholar and critic, researched expansively on the Onicha market literature, a focus on his doctoral thesis at Cambridge University later published as the classic, An African Popular Literature, 1973 (http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/blog-post_51.html).

*****University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library’s link to the Onicha market literature collection:(http://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/onitsha),
accessed 17 November 2016.

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African World, Harvard Law School, History

FWD: Sean Coughlan, “Harvard Law School scraps official crest…”, BBC News, London, Friday 4 March 2015,
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35726878, accessed 4 March 2016)

See also:

1. Sean Coughlan, “Smallpox general…”, BBC News, London, Wednesday 18 November 2015,
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34802747, accessed 18 November 2015)

2. “FWD: Nomenclature galore… What’s in a name? History… Whose history? Now a jump over the pond from Jesus College, Cambridge to Harvard!”,

(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/fwd-sean-coughlan-harvard-abolishes.html)

3. “FWD: Africa: ‘okuku’, history, conquest, history – now’s the turn of Jesus College, Cambridge”,
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/fwd-africa-okuko-history-conquest.html)

4.“FWD: Whose lands? Whose resources? Whose scholarship?”, 
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/whose-lands-whose-resources-whose.html)

5.“FWD ... History: alumni, endowment, Oriel College, Cecil Rhodes, the statue, funding, future”,
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/alumni-endownment-oriel-college-cecil.html)

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Nomenclature galore… What’s in a name? History… Whose history? Now a jump over the pond from Jesus College, Cambridge to Harvard!

FWD: Sean Coughlan, “Harvard abolishes ‘master’ in titles...”, BBC News, London, Thursday 25 February 2016, (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35659685, accessed 25 February 2016) 

See also:

1. “FWD: Africa: ‘okuku’, history, conquest, history – now’s the turn of Jesus College, Cambridge”,
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/fwd-africa-okuko-history-conquest.html)

2.“FWD: Whose lands? Whose resources? Whose scholarship?”, 
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/whose-lands-whose-resources-whose.html)

3.“FWD ... History: alumni, endowment, Oriel College, Cecil Rhodes, the statue, funding, future”,
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/alumni-endownment-oriel-college-cecil.html)

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FWD Africa: “okuku”, history, conquest, history – now’s the turn of Jesus College, Cambridge

Lucy Clarke-Billings, “Cambridge students call for African bronze cockerel statue to fall in latest colonial row”, The Telegraph, London, Sunday 21 February 2016,
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12167156/Cambridge-students-call-for-African-bronze-cockerel-statue-to-fall-in-latest-colonial-row.html, accessed 21 February 2016)

See also:

1.“FWD: Whose lands? Whose resources? Whose scholarship?”, 
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/whose-lands-whose-resources-whose.html)

2.“FWD ... History: alumni, endowment, Oriel College, Cecil Rhodes, the statue, funding, future”,
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/alumni-endownment-oriel-college-cecil.html)

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe