Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Wilfred Thesiger photographs (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has been digitizing its collection of photographs by the explorer and writer, Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
Click here to view some of his iconic photographs taken in Africa, the Middle East, India and Pakistan from the 1930s onwards - and buy copies if you like.

Thursday, 11 November 2010

African history seminar

On 17th November, Dr. Kate Skinner from the University of Birmingham will give the African History Seminar on "Local historians and strangers with big eyes: the politics of Ewe history in Ghana and its global diaspora"
This will take place in Room 563 (College Buildings, Russell Square Campus) between 5 and 7 p.m.

Contact Prof. Tom McCaskie (tm2@soas.ac.uk) for further details