{"id":517,"date":"2019-09-30T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/?p=517"},"modified":"2019-09-30T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:45:27","slug":"colonial-africa-in-official-statistics-1821-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/2019\/09\/30\/colonial-africa-in-official-statistics-1821-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Library recently purchased <em>Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953<\/em> as an online resource. This resource is also referred to as the \u201cAfrican Blue Books, 1821-1953\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/09\/9781851172740-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/09\/9781851172740-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/09\/9781851172740-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/09\/9781851172740-1024x799.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The resource provides rich statistical information about thirteen colonies across Africa during the colonial period. Statistics include the revenue and expenditure, population, education, trade, agriculture, and land of a colony. The Cape of Good Hope is one of the colonies included in the resource, with statistics provided for the period 1821 to 1909. Other colonies covered include Basutoland (Lesotho), Gold Coast (Ghana), East Africa Protectorate (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria), Nyasaland (Malawi) and Tanganyika (Tanzania).<\/p>\n<p><em>Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953 <\/em>will be particularly useful to researchers who, equipped with new statistical tools, explore historical datasets to answer new questions about the African past.<\/p>\n<p><em>Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953<\/em> is available via the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.sun.ac.za\/en-za\/Search\/Pages\/E-databases.aspx\">Databases A-Z list<\/a> on the Library website, on campus as well as off campus.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Naomi Visser at <a href=\"mailto:nrv@sun.ac.za\">nrv@sun.ac.za<\/a> or 021\u00a0808\u00a04433.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>Governing Africa: British records from African countries under colonial rule. British Online Archives. <a href=\"https:\/\/microform-digital.ez.sun.ac.za\/boa\/series\/18\/governing-africa-british-records-from-african-countries-under-colonial-rule\">https:\/\/microform-digital.ez.sun.ac.za\/boa\/series\/18\/governing-africa-british-records-from-african-countries-under-colonial-rule<\/a>. Accessed 13 September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library recently purchased Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953 as an online resource. This resource is also referred to as the \u201cAfrican Blue Books, 1821-1953\u201d. The resource provides rich statistical information about thirteen colonies across Africa during the colonial period. Statistics include the revenue and expenditure, population, education, trade, agriculture, and land of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/2019\/09\/30\/colonial-africa-in-official-statistics-1821-1953\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}