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Griffith Davis Photograph Collection, Donna M. Wells, Melvin Barrolle, Meaghan Alston, Jaclynn Martin Dec 2022

Griffith Davis Photograph Collection, Donna M. Wells, Melvin Barrolle, Meaghan Alston, Jaclynn Martin

Prints and Photographs Department

In 1981 Griffith Davis donated to the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center 7,000 photos and negatives taken in Liberia. It was the largest pictorial donation given to the Center. The collection dates between 1949 and 1974 but the bulk of the collection covers 1949 through 1952-the years of his travels to Liberia. The photographs are comprised of a rich variety of individuals including, Emperor Haile Selassie, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, Liberian President, William V.S. Tubman, missionaries Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Dr. George Harley, Howard University President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, and general shots of Liberia documenting the country’s social and economic change.


Journal Of The National Association Of University Women - August 2017 - 2018, Nauw Mar 2019

Journal Of The National Association Of University Women - August 2017 - 2018, Nauw

The Journal of the National Association of University Women

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

August 2017 - 2018


Official Senegalese Photograph Collection, Meaghan Alston Jan 2019

Official Senegalese Photograph Collection, Meaghan Alston

Prints and Photographs Department

The Official Senegalese Photographs document political and cultural activity in the West African nation of Senegal in the 1960s and 1970s. The bulk of the images show Senegalese government activity and political leaders including Léopold Sédar Senghor, Daniel Cabou, Jean Collin, and Abdou Diouf. The collection also includes events such as The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Boy scout Meetings, and sports events.


Guide To Resources On Africa, Ida E. Jones Aug 2015

Guide To Resources On Africa, Ida E. Jones

Moorland Spingarn Research Center Publications

No abstract provided.


Journal Of The National Association Of University Women - Spring 2015, Nauw Jan 2015

Journal Of The National Association Of University Women - Spring 2015, Nauw

The Journal of the National Association of University Women

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

SPRING 2015


Debunking The Truth Through A Video Documentary: A Case Study Of Henry Louis Gates' "Wonders Of The African World", Kehbuma Langmia Jan 2014

Debunking The Truth Through A Video Documentary: A Case Study Of Henry Louis Gates' "Wonders Of The African World", Kehbuma Langmia

Department of Strategic, Legal, and Management Communications Faculty Publications

The fact that Black people have in the past and continue to endure untold pain and suffering in the mother continent of Africa and in the Diaspora demonstrates that something is wrong and needs to be righted. Henry Louis Gates’ 1999 three-part video documentary series, Wonders of the African World (WAW), funded by BBC and PBS and filmed on the continent of Africa,examined this issue from different perspectives. Professor Gates,a Harvard-based African American scholar,is a renowned intellectual and a cultural critic. Wonders of the African World (WAW) begins with tracing the roots of the ancient Nubians (Blacks in Egypt). he …


The Secret Weapon Of Globalization: China's Activites In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kehbuma Langmia Jan 2011

The Secret Weapon Of Globalization: China's Activites In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kehbuma Langmia

Department of Strategic, Legal, and Management Communications Faculty Publications

The continent of Africa has become the place where advanced nations have resorted to scramble for its natural wealth. Since the era of slave trade and colonization, Africa has become the victim of exploitation from external forces.


The Role Of Ict In The Economic Development Of Africa: The Case Of South Africa, Kehbuma Langmia Jan 2005

The Role Of Ict In The Economic Development Of Africa: The Case Of South Africa, Kehbuma Langmia

Department of Strategic, Legal, and Management Communications Faculty Publications

Africa has been hard hit with poverty and disease and this has had an immense effect on the quality of social, cultural, and political lives of the people. This has made development to move at a very slow pace in the last decades.


Commentary: Evolution Of Contemporary African Law, Atsu-Koffy Amega Nov 1974

Commentary: Evolution Of Contemporary African Law, Atsu-Koffy Amega

New Directions

The following was excerpted from a lecture given at the Howard University School of Law on October 18. 1974.


The Sixth Pan African Congress: Black Unity: Coming Of Age In Dar-Es-Salaam, Abdulkadir N. Said Jun 1974

The Sixth Pan African Congress: Black Unity: Coming Of Age In Dar-Es-Salaam, Abdulkadir N. Said

New Directions

No abstract provided.


A Meeting With Nyerere, Alma Robinson Jun 1974

A Meeting With Nyerere, Alma Robinson

New Directions

No abstract provided.


Pan African Congress Resolutions, Editorial Staff Jun 1974

Pan African Congress Resolutions, Editorial Staff

New Directions

No abstract provided.