Libraries and Museums
The University of Kansas holds extensive resources for African Studies, including:
- Africana Collections at the University of Kansas
78,000 volumes of African fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, documents, maps, microforms, newspapers, and periodicals in English, French, Wolof, Arabic, Swahili, and Hausa;
Africana holdings are decentralized throughout the various library locations as appropriate by subject. The main collection is housed in Watson Library. Materials on African art are located in the Murphy Art and Architecture Library located in the Spencer Art Museum. Anschutz Library holdings include all science-related materials, as well as human health, economics and business, maps, and printed government documents. Music-related holdings, including sound recordings, are in the Gorton Music Library. Videocassettes are found principally in the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center, although some are located in Watson Library and accessible in the online catalog. The print collection of Onitsha Market Literature and other selected items of rare Africana are located at the Spencer Research Library.
- African Studies Electronic Resources at the KU Libraries
Links to web guides, news reports, indexes and databases, electronic journal aggregations, instructional resources and outreach, and online library catologues and research guides of libraries around the U.S. with the most extensive collections of Africana. For more information on Africana resources, visit the KU Libraries' African Studies contact page.
- The Ermal Garinger Academic Resource
Center also has a wide collection of African films that can be used
in class to motivate discussions or for general information. Immersion tapes
in Kiswahili, Hausa, and Arabic are also available for students seeking
proficiency in these languages.
- Central African Art Website created by art history students and Prof. Gitti Salami during HA 578/AAAS 578 including context, maps, and 360-degree views of artifacts from the Museum of Anthropology collection.
- African artifact collections (1,100
artifacts) in the Museum of Anthropology from Dan, Bambara, Ife, Yoruba,
Edo, Fang, Kongo, Shona, Ndebele, Sotho, Zulu, Baca cultures, and systematic
collections from the Chokwe of Angola, the
Baggara of the Sudan, an early Neolithic collection from the Fayum of
Egypt, and an upper Paleolithic collection from Tunisia. Also other artifacts that may not yet be catalogued at the Museum of Anthropology.
Please contact the Center at (785)864-3745 or
kasc@ku.edu to find out more about accessing all these resources.
