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The Mapping of Africa: A Guide to Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

David P Ferro
David P Ferro*
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Edinburgh University Library
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From time to time undergraduates at Edinburgh University taking a geography course in the Centre of African Studies are asked to prepare a bibliography and evaluation of maps on a particular topic for a country of their choice. The student's sequence of tasks is to select a country that has been mapped relatively well; compile a cartobibliography; locate copies of the maps; and finally, evaluate them. Such a process is also very familiar to map librarians, particularly in the course of acquisition and reference work.

In attempting to ascertain what mapping is available and to evaluate it, two approaches might be adopted. The student could turn to a guide to or bibliography of Africana in the hope that this would lead directly to sources of information on cartographic publishing. Alternatively, cartographic sources could be approached first. Certainly the first approach yields some useful sources but has its limitations.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 28 , 1982 , pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © International African Institute 1982

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