Sport in Africa - Conference in London, UK

The United Kingdom Libraries and Archives Group on Africa (SCOLMA) will hold their annual conference at the National Archives, Kew, London, UK, on 29 June, 2011.

The conference´ topic is Sport in Africa: History, Politics and the Archive.

Themes discussed at the event will include:

• Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction: the role of sport in post war Liberia;
• Colonial and post-colonial sport and the Olympic movement in English-speaking Africa after the Second World War (1945-1965): review, reflection and perspectives;
• The politics of match reports, minutes and archives in national neighbourhood football championships in Senegal;
• Cricket and War in early Rhodesia.

Registration is due by 11 June, 2011. Please contact Lucy McCann at lucy.mccannbodleian.ox.ac.uk

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