African Studies inthe Digital Age: DisConnects? -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Access, Research and Researchers -- 1 African Studies in the Digital Age: Challenges for Research and National Libraries -- 2 Dazzled by Digital?: Research Environments in African Universities and Their Implications for the Use of Digital Resources -- 3 Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Byte to Think: The Pitfalls of Increased Access to Digital Resources in University History Departments in Zimbabwe -- 4 Improving Digital Collection Access with Simple Search Engine Optimisation Strategies -- Part 2: Archives and Memory -- 5 Building Futures: The Role of Digital Collections in Shaping National Identity in Africa -- 6 The West African Manuscript Heritage: Challenges of the Digital Revolution in a Research Economy -- 7 Recovering the African Printed Past: Virtually Re-membering a Dispersed Collection in Eritrea -- 8 Archives and the Past: Cataloguing and Digitisation in Uganda's Archives -- 9 'Life is so Summarised': Society's Memory in the Digital Age in Africa -- Part 3: Building on Digital -- 10 African Newspapers in the Online World: Information Gains and Losses -- 11 Viewing 'Africa Through a Lens': Using Digitisation and Online Tools at The National Archives (UK) to Widen Audience Reach -- 12 The Integration of Historical Cartography into the Present Day: The Darfur Case -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Programme of scolma's 50th anniversary conference -- Index of Subjects.