The Zanzibar Achives Project and its Implications for the Preservation of Records in East and Central Africa

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In an earlier issue of this journal (ARD 36,1984) I described the archival training workshops held in Zanzibar in the summer of 1984. The workshops were not intended to overcome fully the problems of the Zanzibar Archives but to set in motion work which could be evaluated and more fully developed the following year. The second programme, described below, was held in July and August 1985.

A brief review of the background to the workshops may be helpful. Zanzibar possesses the only extensive 19th century English language archive in East and Central Africa, a British representative having been posted there earlier than anywhere else in the region.