Africa and the New Imperialism

Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914 is an essential resource for researching Africa’s encounters with European imperialist regimes and their impact on the lives of peoples across the continent.

Highlights

• Diaries, journals and sketch books from key figures including David Livingstone, John Kirk and James Augustus Grant, whose sketchbooks from his Nile expedition are illustrated with watercolours of landscapes and peoples he encountered
• Correspondence from Roger Casement and the resulting Casement Report which investigated, and confirmed, the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State under King Leopold II
• British Foreign Office files for the Berlin Conference, the event which ignited the spark of late-nineteenth century European imperialist efforts across Africa
• Correspondence, journals and reports from French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza that provide ingiht into his expeditions to the Congo Basin; and Brazza's 1905 investigation into injustice, forced labour and the brutality within the French Congo
• The papers, photographs and correspondence of Frederick Lugard, a British soldier and administrator in Africa, covering British involvement in East Africa and West Africa from the 1870s. Along with the papers of journalist and colonial commentator, Flora Shaw

Access for African institutions

Africa and the New Imperialism will be permanently and freely available to the national libraries and archives of all countries within the African continent, including:

• Each federal site of the South African National Archives
• The two branches of the National Library of South Africa
• All African universities outside Egypt and South Africa

To arrange access, AM asks that librarians, academics or staff from institutions who are eligible for access get in touch with us via our contact form where we ask you to provide contact details for your institution.

Our Customer Support team will then send you our standard free access Licence Agreement. Once this has been signed, we will set up full, IP authorised access for your institution.

AM asks that if you are an undergraduate student at an eligible institution, please refer your librarian to this page or the contact form and ask them to get in touch on behalf of your institution.