Fallon, Helen (2008) The Life and Times of Samuel Adjai Crowther, From Slave Ship to Canterbury Cathedral. Africa, 73 (2). pp. 20-21.

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The Library at Fourah Bay College was a place of dark wooden furniture, portraits in gilt-edged frames and a collection of books that would have sat equally comfortably on the shelves of any British university in the 1950's. Most of the collection had come, before independence in 1961, from Britain. It reflected what was being taught in universities there at the time. I was teaching librarianship in Fourah Bay and, after finishing my lectures, I often spent time amongst the book stacks, my rummaging disturbed only by the occasional termite that scuttled from a dusty book where it had probably languished comfortably for quite some time.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Life; Times; Samuel Adjai Crowther; Slave Ship; Canterbury Cathedral;
Academic Unit:	University Library
Item ID:	8264
Depositing User:	Helen Fallon
Date Deposited:	31 May 2017 14:18
Journal or Publication Title:	Africa
Publisher:	St. Patrick's Missionary
Refereed:	No
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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