Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive, 1952-1998 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Africa News Service
Extent:
606.6 Linear Feet
439,500 Items
Language:
English.
Research Center:
John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
Collection ID:
RL.00017

Background

Scope and content:

The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by Africa News Service (ANS) over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U. S. foreign policy towards Africa. The collection spans the years from approximately 1960 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978 through 1994. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Much of the material is gathered from mainstream media sources and government documentation in the United States, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world. In addition, the collection includes significant resources from alternative, minority, and special interest presses world-wide that may be difficult to locate elsewhere. The archive contains scarce and difficult-to-locate materials such as numerous publications produced by non-governmental organizations and grass-roots/community groups that are/were involved in efforts related to independence movements, economic development, and human rights issues in Africa.

The archive is arranged in several series that provide a perspective on African politics and development from almost every country in the world. The heart of the archives is comprised of files about each African country. There are also significant files on U.S. politics and foreign policy and the United Nations. As ANS is located in North Carolina, there was a specific effort to document the activities and interests of North Carolinians as related to African issues. The archive encompasses a wide range of topics including agriculture, children, economics, education, health, history, politics, peace negotiations, social conditions, war, wildlife, and women. There are files on individuals, media organizations, political and cultural groups, corporations, and lobbyists. The collection documents the movement for African independence and economic development in the latter half of the twentieth century.

The archive is named in honor of LeRoy T. Walker, long-time supporter and honorary chair of the ANS Board of Directors. Mr. Walker was president-emeritus of the U. S. Olympic Committee and chancellor-emeritus of North Carolina Central University. A past president of The Athletic Congress, he had a multi-faceted career in sports, physical education and educational administration; he received numerous honors and honorary degrees. He coached U. S. Olympic teams and trained and coached many African and American athletes. In the 1960s he served as director of programming and training for Africa at the Peace Corps in Washington, D.C.

Also transferred with the archive is a large number of Africa-related books, periodicals, and other printed materials. These items are being integrated and cataloged as part of Perkins Library's holdings on Africa and are identified in the on-line catalog by the (corporate) author entry: Africa News Service (Durham, N.C.) Archives.

The addition (9450 items, dated 1952-1993 and undated, bulk 1952-ca. 1980, 18.20 linear feet) contains resource files, newspaper clippings and other media, and periodicals, books, and pamphlets on various topics pertaining to South Africa and Southern Africa (especially Rhodesia and Zimbabwe). Topics include labor, industry, the economy, and foreign trade with South Africa; social conditions in South Africa including the state of Indian South Africans; and student, Christian, and other political movements against apartheid, including the National Union of South African Students and the University Christian Movement. Also includes 3 black-and-white photographs, and 3 microfiche. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation. (01-156)

Biographical / historical:

Africa News Service (ANS) is a non-profit U. S. news agency founded in 1973. It is a leading information source on Africa in the United States and works in partnership with African news agencies and periodicals to make available current and background materials on all aspects of African life, politics, and culture. Through its efforts, coverage of Africa has been more frequent, more substantive, and more accurate, filling a vital gap for policy makers, educators, journalists, diplomats, scientists, religious groups, development analysts, and business and labor leaders. Widely known for its periodical Africa News, the award winning ANS also prepares special articles and series for major newspapers and broadcast programs and provides behind-the-scenes consultation and briefing for news agencies and individual journalists. Keeping pace with innovative computer technologies, ANS shifted in 1993 from printed to electronic publication by establishing Africa News Online. Through this on-line service ANS engages in computerized news gathering and distribution and e-mail communications with reporters in Africa. This on-line service is distributed commercially by international vendors such as Lexis/Nexis and Financial Times Information and is on the World Wide Web at www.africanews.org.

ANS is located in Durham, N. C. and is led by a trio of Duke graduates: Executive Director Bertie Howard ('69), Executive Editor Tamela Hultman ('68), and President and Managing Editor Reed Kramer ('69). In 1996 ANS and Duke University embarked on two collaborative ventures, the Center for Africa and the Media (CAM) as well as the the LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive. CAM is a joint program with Duke University's African and African American Studies Program that will help develop curricular offerings and conduct scholarly research as well as initiate visits and international exchanges with journalists and media scholars.

Acquisition information:
The Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive was donated by Africa News Service to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library from 1997-2001.
Processing information:

Processed by Paula Jeannet; Karen L. Jefferson; Betsy Hankin; Thembi Finch; Allison Gluvna; Nicole Teal; Brad Siegel

Completed 1997-1998

Additions processed by Don Sechler; Lisa Stark; Katy Wischow

Last updated November 27, 2001

Encoded by Lisa Stark; Ming Guo; Katy Wischow; Ruth E. Bryan

Parts of this collection are unprocessed: those materials have not been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Arrangement:

The collection is retained as it was assembled by ANS. The files were collected over two decades by a variety of staff members and volunteers. As issues in Africa evolved, subject files were established, emphasized or de-emphasized, resulting in some overlap in focus and sometimes inconsistency in filing. Many of the folder titles include span dates; however, it is not unusual to find materials dated earlier or later. As noted previously, the collection spans the period of the 1960s through 1995. Some dates on the folder titles are noted with the prefix "thru" or "through", or a dash, e.g., "-1977". This indicates that the materials in the files dated before and up to 1977. If there is a dash after the date, e.g., " 1983-", this indicates the files date 1983 forward. The span dates on the container list sometimes differ from the dates on the folder title. In preparing the container list, student workers sometimes looked within the folder to determine the actual span dates and listed this information. Attempts were made by ANS staff to arrange materials chronologically within the folders. Over time with numerous people using and filing the materials, some of this arrangement within the folder may have been lost.

Sometimes within the folders there are white slips of paper with a bibliographic citation. This is an indication that there is a relevant article in a periodical. The periodical title is often noted by an acronym. A key to the list of acronyms can be found after the List of Series below. Most of the periodicals cited should be available in Duke University's Perkins Library in hard copy, microform, or electronically.

Occasionally there are files labelled with just the letter of the alphabet, preceding folders with information about a specific topic. Such files were established when there were only one or two articles about the subject and a separate folder was not yet warranted. For example in the series, "Persons," there is a file for each letter of the alphabet, preceding the files labelled by individuals' names. This indicates that the file contains materials on several people whose last name begins with that letter of the alphabet. There are a few terms used as folder titles that require some clarification.

"General" indicates there was not sufficient material on a subject to divide into categories. Therefore the file would include a range of topics. For example, "South Africa: Bantustans - General" would include a variety of information about Bantustans as a subject and specific Bantustans. Following "General" are files on specific Bantustans, e.g., "Ciskei," indicating that there was sufficient information about Ciskei to warrant its own folder.

Bibliography is not used in the traditional sense of a list of citations, but rather is a file that includes book announcements, book reviews, or other statements about a publication of interest. Such materials can also be found interfiled within a specific subject file.

Reference files included brochures, pamphlets, statistics, and maps providing background information about a subject, usually a country.

Diplomacy files are used only in the series, "Africa: Countries," and refers to pre-independence efforts to form a new country. These files would include information on negotiations with former colonial powers, the United Nations, and/or with neighboring African countries. After independence was achieved files were labelled under the title, "politics."

Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy were not always clearly distinguished during the filing process. However, foreign policy focuses more on establishing positions related to issues while foreign relations deal with the interaction between countries based on the foreign policy.

AAN
Anti-Apartheid News
AANWR
African American News & World Report
AFAS
Afriqueasie
Af Bus
African Business
AFR
Africa
AV
Atlanta Voice
BBC
BBC Summary
BC
Bulawayo Chronicle
BOT. DN
Botswana Daily News
B. PAN
Black Panther Paper
B. SUN
Baltimore Sun
BW
Business Week
CSM
Christian Science Monitor
DD
Daily Dispatch (E. London)
DMH
Durham Morning Herald
D OBS LIB
Daily Observer of Liberia
DS
Durham Sun
DT
Daily Times (Nigeria)
DU. CHR
Duke University Chronicle
DW
Daily World
EAST
East Africa Standard
ECON
Economist
ETH. HLD
Ethiopian Herald
FBIS
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FDL
Frontline
FM
Financial Mail
FT
Financial Times
GD (UK)
Guardian (UK)
GD (US)
Guardian (US)
GDN
Greensboro Daily News
GH. DG
Daily Graphic (Ghana)
GH. P.
Pioneer (Ghana)
GH. T
Ghanaian Times
HE
Human Items
JA
Jeune Afrique
J DE A
Journal de Angola
J1 OF C
Journal of Commerce
JS
Johannesburg Star
KST
Sunday Times (Kenya)
KT
Kenya Times
LA
Liberian Age
LAT
Los Angeles Times
LeM
Le Monde
ME
Middle East
M. GD
Manchester Guardian Weekly
MPR
MERIP Reports
MT
Militant
NAF
New African
NAK
Nation (Kenya)
NAT. C.
National Concord
NC. AN.
N. C. Anvil
NDS
Daily Star (Nigeria)
NEW LIB
New Liberian
N. HER
Nigerian Herald
NJ & G
Norfolk Journal & Guide
N. NIGE.
New Nigerian
NR
New Republic
NW
Newsweek
NYP
New York Post
NYT
New York Times
OBS
Observer
oob
off our backs
PH. B.
Philadelphia Bulletin
PH. I.
Philadelphia Inquirer
RDM
Rand Daily Mail
RFG
Rhodesian Financial Gazette
RNO
Raleigh News & Observer
RP
Rapport
SACT
Cape Times (S. Africa)
SAD
South African Digest
SAFG
South African Financial Gazette
SAR
Southern Africa Report
SAST
Sunday Times (Johannesburg)
SCR
Standard & Chartered Review
S. HER.
Sun Herald
SoAf
Southern Africa
SPL
Spotlight
S. POST
Sunday Post (S. Africa)
ST
Sunday Times (London)
StK
Standard (Kenya)
ST OF Z
Sunday Times of Zambia
S. TRIB.
Sunday Tribune
SWOBS
Swaziland Observer
TDN
Daily News (Tanzania)
Times K
Kenya Times
Times L
Times (London)
Times N
Nairobi Times
TM
Time
T OF Z
Times of Zambia
TRIB
Tribune
TSW
Times of Swaziland
TTP
To The Point
TTPI
To The Point International
UMR
United Methodist Reporter
USN
U. S. News & World Report
VV
Village Voice
WAD
Windhoek Advertisor
WAF
West Africa
WBW
World Business Weekly
WP
Washington Post
W. REV
Weekly Review
WS
Washington Star
WSJ
Wall Street Journal
WT
Washington Times
WW
Workers World
WWF
World Wildlife Fund News
ZDM
Zambia Daily Mail
ZWE
Weekender (Zambia)
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