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Africana Section/Special Collection
The whole of Africana/Special Collection is Closed Access and houses the following materials:• Books, periodicals related to East Africa and on Uganda in particular.
• General books on Africa and other documents on Uganda, deposited mainly as a result of the Legal Deposit Act, which requires every publisher and author of a book in and about Uganda to deposit a copy to Makerere University Library.
Africana: Special Collection
• Special Collection includes publications from:
> International Organisations (e.g. UNESCO, FAO, UNICEF
> Government documents > University Collections (e.g Council Min.) > Theses and dissertations
Africana: Special CollectionPamphlets > Microfilms (periodicals, manuscripts & theses> Archives & Manuscripts – range from institutional
to individual archives (e.g.Uganda protectorate, Church missionaries, Buganda govt., Memoirs;Individual manuscripts i.e. Ham Mukasa, Apollo Kivebulaya, Kaddu Mukasa.)
Newspapers (Ugandan dating as far back as 1901 e.g. Munno)
Africana: Special Collection
• > Photographs – range from various aspects of traditional rulers, Ugandan presidents, Governors, Makerere Principles, Students, Sceneries of Uganda, Hospitals and patients, Queen’s visits,
First 14 MU Students 1922
Women Students 1945-49