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Peter Limb is Africana Bibliographer and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University and a specialist researcher on South Africa. He is Online Co-Editor of 'H-Africa' and Online and Reviews Editor of 'H-SAfrica.' He maintains the 'A-Z Guide to African Studies on the Internet' http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html
He has edited several special issues of journals. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of:
Innovation (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa),
Mots pluriels,
Encyclopedia of Colonialism,
Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities.
He served as an historical consultant for a film on the history of the international anti-apartheid movement and has refereed scholarly articles and examined theses on South Africa. Among his other recent activities have been the organizing of the 1999 International Conference on 'New African Perspectives' and the symposium 'Africa 2000: Links, Land, and Identities' in 2000. He held a Visiting Fellowship at the Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, in 1995.
Publications include: The ANC and Black Workers, 1912-92: an Annotated Bibliography (London, 1993); Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo, Personal Papers (Bellville, 1995); Bibliography of African Literatures (Lanham:, 1996); "The ANC and Black Workers" in N. Etherington (ed.), Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa (Oxford, 1992); "'Of Deeds Most Foul & Vile': a Short Comparative History of Robben & Rottnest Penal Islands" in African Studies Association of Australasia & the Pacific Review v.20 no.1 1998; "An Australian Historian at the Dawn of Apartheid: Fred Alexander in South Africa, 1949-50" in Electronic Journal of Australian & New Zealand History Nov. 1999 http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/article/limb.htm; "'Representing the Laboring Classes': African Workers in the African Nationalist Press, 1900-1960" in Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari(eds.), South Africa's Resistance Press (Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000); "Rethinking Sol Plaatje's Attitudes to Empire, Labour and Gender" Critical Arts vol. 16 no. 1 2002;
"Early ANC Leaders and the British World: Ambiguities and Identities" Historia 47 no.1 2002, pp. 56-82;
"2001 Mafikeng SAHS Conference" AHA Bulletin (Australian Historical Association) no. 94, 2002;
"Ethical Dilemmas in Southern African Archives and Libraries" Innovation 24 2002, pp. 51-58; "Ethical Dilemmas Facing Africanist Librarians, Archivists and Scholars Today" African Research and Documentation (London) 89 2002, pp. 3-18; "Accessing African archives, libraries and journals: Partnerships, ethics and equity in the 21st century" African Research and Documentation (London) 90 2002, pp. 29-41.
He wrote a bibliographic column in the Southern African Review of Books, and reviews for a wide range of journals. His Ph.D. was on ANC history.
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