{"id":2349,"date":"2023-06-26T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:17:07","slug":"new-east-african-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2023\/06\/26\/new-east-african-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"New! East African Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful trial earlier this semester at the request of staff from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sps.ed.ac.uk\/centre-african-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre of African Studies<\/a> I&#8217;m happy to let you know the Library now has access to <strong>East African Newspapers<\/strong> from EastView. This resource features key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2023\/06\/East-African-Newspapers_cropped.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2354\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2023\/06\/East-African-Newspapers_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2023\/06\/East-African-Newspapers_cropped.png 776w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2023\/06\/East-African-Newspapers_cropped-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2023\/06\/East-African-Newspapers_cropped-768x159.png 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/files\/2023\/06\/East-African-Newspapers_cropped-500x104.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can access <strong>East African Newspapers<\/strong> via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Databases A-Z list<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/discovered.ed.ac.uk\/permalink\/44UOE_INST\/7g3mt6\/alma9925044802202466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DiscoverEd<\/strong><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburgh-uk.libguides.com\/newspapers-magazines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide<\/strong><\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>East African Newspapers<\/strong> collection provides insight into this region during the 20th and early 21st centuries, a time of great change for Africa. In East Africa, this time witnessed the growth of decolonization as independence movements swelled, and local, autonomous self-governance took hold throughout the region. This period was also punctuated by famine, drought, political uprisings, border disputes, and war as countries worked to navigate the post-colonial landscape. The collection includes 3 key newspapers: <em>Daily Nation<\/em> (Kenya), <em>The Ethiopian Herald<\/em>, and <em>The Monitor<\/em> (Uganda).<\/p>\n<p>You can access <strong>East African Newspapers<\/strong> via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Databases A-Z list<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/discovered.ed.ac.uk\/permalink\/44UOE_INST\/7g3mt6\/alma9925044802202466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DiscoverEd<\/strong><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburgh-uk.libguides.com\/newspapers-magazines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Newspapers, Magazines and Other News Sources guide<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p><em>Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for School of Social and Political Science<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful trial earlier this semester at the request of staff from the Centre of African Studies I&#8217;m happy to let you know the Library now has access to East African Newspapers from EastView. This resource features key newspapers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/2023\/06\/26\/new-east-african-newspapers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,24,107,189],"tags":[182,208,45,159,9,215,217,216,31,6,218],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4juGL-BT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/spslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}