The archive enters its first institutional website phase
New public pages separate the archive’s mission, research framework, collection context and institutional record from the controlled object catalogue.
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The archive as a continuing research record.
New acquisitions are published here as documentary arguments rather than market announcements. Each notice explains what an object changes, connects or makes newly available for research.
This section also records publications, loans, exhibitions, digital developments and milestones in the archive’s institutional formation.
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Notices are retained as part of the archive’s public institutional history. Dates shown are publication dates of the notices.
Early African Music Society newsletter run added
A complete six-issue run from 1948 to 1953 documents the institutional genealogy preceding the journal African Music.
Seven working photographs expand the Dakar 1966 holdings
A coherent Robert Van Laere group preserves performers, delegations and the professional photographic labour surrounding the First World Festival of Negro Arts.
Official FESTAC ’77 souvenir added to the archive
The substantial 152-page publication preserves the festival’s public image and the institutional ambition required to make a vast event portable.