My main objective in connecting students and primary source materials is to foster inquiry-based learning and cultivating relevant literacies. In order to facilitate our work together, I ask that you do the following:
1) Please contact me as soon as you think you might want to use primary source material in your course. Many of the primary source materials in our collections require significant lead time and effort to get them ready for class use.
2) Please share your course syllabus with with me as soon as possible. If that is not possible, please share the course objectives in an e-mail. This will allow me to plan a more impactful intervention within your course, with better learning outcomes for your students.
3) Please plan to meet with me once per collaborative class session. When we meet, we will discuss effective primary source literacy strategies, and co-develop session outcomes. These meetings can be brief (and I am happy to come to you!).
4) Please review IUCAT, the finding aids in Archives Online and Images Online, and the other pages in this guide, to see which archival holdings might be good matches for the assignments you have in mind.
5) Please have an idea of when and how you would like to incorporate primary source material into the course but please also remain flexible in terms of timing and available materials.
6) Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns as you plan your course! I want to help you successfully incorporate primary source materials into your curriculum, and I am very excited to work with you and your students!
The African Poster Collection includes posters from all regions of Africa, focusing on diverse themes such as apartheid, human rights, film festivals, and voter education. Some examples of posters included in the collection are: a series of voter education posters published by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa; a collection of hairstyle and fashion calendars from Nigeria; and farming and dairy posters from Zimbabwe. These posters, in addition to many others, can be found by using the Country Index (below). NB: The Country Index is being re-mapped as of this writing and PDF country lists of posters are available upon request by contacting afstlib@indiana.edu.
The collection also includes special reprint series of many popular African film posters, such as those published by Nuovi Graffiti d'Africa and La Cinematografia Egiziana. These posters can be found using the Film Poster Index (below). Many of the posters are written in English, but there are many in languages such as Swahili, Hausa, Arabic, Tigrinya, and Portuguese.
All posters can be used through the African Studies Collection Office in the Herman B Wells Library, Room E660. Please contact the African Studies Collection Office for access (advance notice highly recommended), at afstlib@indiana.edu.
Other notable collections of African posters include:
A: Africa (General) | Algeria | Angola
B: Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi
C: Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Comoros | Congo (Democratic Republic) | Congo (Republic) | Cote d'Ivoire
D: Djibouti
E: Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia
F: France
G: Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau
K: Kenya
L: Lesotho | Liberia | Libya
M: Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Morocco | Mozambique
N: Namibia | Niger | Nigeria
R: Reunion | Rwanda
S: Sao Tome and Principe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | South Sudan | Sudan | Swaziland
T: Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia
U: Uganda | United Kingdom | United States
Z: Zambia | Zimbabwe
La Cinematografia Egiziana, Series I
Nuovi Graffiti d'Africa, Series I (#1-50)
Nuovi Graffiti d'Africa, Series II (#51-109)
Nuovi Graffiti d'Africa, Series III (#110-148)
A subset of the posters in the African Studies Collection contain maps. These are searchable by country via the interactive index embedded below. The index was created by IU student Mia Partlow, under the direction of IU GIS Librarian Theresa Quill.
