<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all: <div><br></div><div>This goes to those who are in one way or another involved in 'African Studies in the Digital Age', which is to begin in the space of a month. </div><div><br></div><div>We have a workshop website: it can be found at <a href="http://ii.umich.edu/asc/initiatives/africanheritageinitiativeahi/africanstudiesinthedigitalage_ci">this hyperlink</a>. Or see the most up-to-date version of the schedule in the attached Word document. The program is very full and varied, and it all promises to be a great deal of fun. </div><div><br></div><div>But it will not be a bed of roses: there is some preparatory work to be done. The various presenters have suggested some shared reading for all of us to do. I have attached the relevant texts here, formatted generally as PDFs. The reading is structured as follows: </div><div><br></div><div>For Monday, 10 November, read: </div><div>1. Hofmeyr, Portable Bunyan (attached), AND Hofmeyr's newest book _<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674072794">Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments with Slow Reading</a>_ (Harvard, 2013), which participants should please purchase, or (slowly) read at the library, in advance. </div><div><br></div><div>For Tuesday, 11 November, read: </div><div>2. Keith Breckenridge, 'The Politics of the Parallel Archive,' JSAS 40 (3) (2014), 499-519. </div><div>3. Premesh Lalu, 'The virtual stampede for Africa,' Innovation 34 (June 2007). </div><div>4. Taylor, Rockenbach and Bond, 'Archives and the past,' in Barringer and Wallace, eds., _African Studies in the Digital Age_ (Brill, 2014). </div><div><br></div><div>For Friday, 14 November, read: </div><div>5. Peter Limb, 'Towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitization,' Innovation 34 (June 2007). </div><div>6. Excerpts from Center for Research Libraries, Focus on Global Resources 29 (Summer 2010). </div><div>7. Peter Limb, 'The ANC's First newspaper recovered,' manuscript. </div><div>8. Peter Limb, 'Conclusion,' in Barringer and Wallace, eds., _African Studies in the Digital Age_ (Brill, 2014). </div><div><br></div><div>And our colleague Akosua Ampofo reminds me to flag up the 2007 workshop in Illinois about 'The Politics of Digital Initiatives Concerning Africa,' the report for which can be found <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/ALN123/123kaganworkshop.html">at this hyperlink</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>We here are much looking forward to this occasion. Please do come to me with any questions that might occur to you. </div><div><br></div><div>Yours, </div><div><br></div><div>Derek </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>