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Affiliation University of Cape Town, South Africa; Human Sciences Research Council

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Mailing Address Room 6.25 (DGRU) Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, UCT Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa

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Countries of Specialization Mozambique

Education B.A. University of Oxforf PhD University of Bradford

Research Interests My two main research areas are contemporary Mozambican political history, especially from 1969 to 1977; and the political economy of the current information crisis in Africa, especially with regard to intellectual property issues and the sustainability of libraries and other information systems.

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Publications * 1. Education and social change: readings on selected issues and cases. / A. G. M. Ishumi and T. L. Maliyamkono, Colin Darch, eds. - Dar es Salaam: Black Star, 1980. - 262p. 2. A Soviet view of Africa: an annotated bibliography on Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti. / Colin Darch. - Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. - xxxvi, 200p. - (Bibliographies and Guides in African Studies) 3. Africa Index to Continental Periodical Literature. No. 3. / Colin Darch, O. C. Mascarenhas. - Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag, 1981. - 191p. 4. Africa Index to Continental Periodical Literature. No. 4/5. / Colin Darch. - Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag, 1983. - xxii, 375p. 5. Tanzania. / Colin Darch. - Oxford: Clio Press, 1985. - 316p. - (World Bibliographic Series, vol. 54) 6. Africa Index to continental periodical literature. No. 6. / Colin Darch, Alice Nkhoma-Wamunza. - Munich: K. G. Saur, Hans Zell, 1985. - 215p. 7. Mozambique. / Colin Darch, Calisto Pacheleke - Oxford: Clio Press, 1987. - xxvi, 360p. - (World Bibliographic Series, vol. 78) 8. Policy, planning and cooperation: smart solutions for information provision. / Derrick Young, Colin Darch, Hans de Roos, June Matlala, Tselane Morolo, Mary Nassimbeni, Lindiwe Ndaki and John Tsebe. - Pretoria: NCHE, July 1996. - vi, 123p. - (National Commission on Higher Education. Working Group on Libraries and Information Technology. Report). - http://star.hsrc.ac.za/nche/wglit/final/toc.html. 9. Tanzania. / Colin Darch. - Rev. ed. - Oxford: Clio Press, 1996. - xxxii, 379p. - (World Bibliographic Series, vol. 54). 10. 426 days: the political transition to independence in Mozambique, 1974-1975 / Colin Darch. - In preparation. Selected Articles, Chapters in Books, and Book Reviews 1. Escritos e investigação sobre Moçambique, 1975-1980. / Colin Darch. // In: Estudos Moçambicanos. - Maputo. - no. 1. - 1980. - p. 111-120. 2. As publicações da FRELIMO: um estudo preliminar. / Colin Darch. // In: Estudos Moçambicanos. - Maputo. - no. 2. - 1981. - p. 105-120. 3. Trabalho migratório na Africa Austral: um apontamento crítico sobre a literatura existente. / Colin Darch. // In: Estudos Moçambicanos. - Maputo. - no. 3. - 1981. - p. 81-96. 4. Writings and research on Mozambique, 1975-1980. / Colin Darch. // In: Mozambican Studies. - Amsterdam. - no. 1. - 1980 [publ. 1982]. - p. 103-112. 5. Western imperialism in the 1930s. / Colin Darch. // In: Africa Today. - Denver. - vol. 29 no. 2. - 2nd quarter 1982. - p. 69-70. - Book review. 6. Migrant labour in southern Africa: a bibliographic note. / [Colin Darch]. // In: Black gold: the Mozambican miner, proletarian and peasant. / Ruth First. - Brighton: Harvester Press, 1983. - p. 195-211. 7. Published documentation of the Party FRELIMO: a preliminary study. / Colin Darch. // In: Mozambican Studies. - Amsterdam. - no. 2. - 1981 [publ. 1983]. - p. 104-125. 8. Endre Sik and the development of African studies in the USSR: a study agenda from 1929. / Colin Darch, Gary Littlejohn. // In: History in Africa. - vol. 10. - 1983. - p. 79-108. 9. The state of contemporary library development in Tanzania in the context of NATIS. / C. M. Darch, J. C. Gera, J. M. Newa. // In: Annals of Library Science and Documentation. - New Delhi. - vol. 30 no. 3/4. - 1983. - p. 166-176. 10. Cabo Delgado: fontes para uma história da luta armada e para uma economia política do Planalto de Mueda. / [Colin Darch]. // In: Não vamos esquecer: boletim informativo da Oficina de História. - Maputo. - no. 1. - February 1983. - p. 38-41. 11. The myth of Nestor Makhno. / Colin Darch. // In: Economy and Society. - London. - vol. 14 no. 4. - 1985. - p. 524-536. - Review article. 12. The writings of Samora Machel: a bibliographic note. / Colin Darch. // In: An African revolutionary: selected writings and speeches. / Translated by Michael Wolfers, introduction by Barry Munslow. - London: Zed, 1985. - p. 200-204. 13. Notas sobre fontes estatísticas oficiais referentes é economia colonial moçambicana: uma crítica geral. / Colin Darch. // In: Estudos Moçambicanos. - Maputo. - no. 4. 1983-1985. - p. 103-125. 14. Class and state in Tanzanian development. / Colin Darch. // In: Africa Today. - Denver. - vol. 32 no. 4. - 4th quarter 1985. - p. 68-70. 15. Endre Sik e o desenvolvimento dos estudos africanos na URSS: uma agenda de estudos a partir de 1929. / Colin Darch and Gary Littlejohn. // In: Cadernos de História. - Maputo. - no. 6. - November 1987. - p. 65-102. 16. [Review of] Guide to current national bibliographies in the third world. / Colin Darch. // In: International Journal of African Historical Studies. - Boston. - vol. 22, no. 2. - 1989. - p. 330-331. 17. Are there warlords in provincial Mozambique? Questions of the social base of MNR banditry. / Colin Darch. // In: Review of African Political Economy. - Sheffield. - no. 45/46. - 1989. - p. 34-49. 18. East Africa through Soviet eyes. / Colin Darch. // In: Journal of African History. - London. - vol. 31, no. 2. - 1990. - p. 328-329. -Book review. 19. Africa Austral: as forças em jogo. / Colin Darch. // In: A Africa do Sul hoje: a voz da média. / Organizadores: Caetana Damasceno and others. - Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Estudos da Religião, ISER, 1991. - p. 73-80. 20. A guerra e as mudanças sociais recentes em Moçambique (1986-1992): cenórios para o futuro. / Colin Darch. // In: Estudos Afro-Asiáticos. - Rio de Janeiro. - no. 23. - December 1992. - p. 213-227. 21. Ethiopian resistance. / Colin Darch. // In: Journal of African History. - London. - vol. 34, no. 1. - 1993. - p. 154-155. - Book review. 22. The book trade and publishing in Mozambique. / Colin Darch. // African Book Publishing Record. - Oxford. - vol. 19, no. 1. - 1993. - p. 9-12. 23. The Western Cape Library Cooperative Project: levelling the playing field in the 1990s. / Colin Darch. // In: Survival Strategies in African University Libraries: New Technologies in the Service of Information. Proceedings from a workshop, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2-5 August 1993. Editors: Helga Atkinson Patrikios, Lisbeth A. Levey. - Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994. - p. 17-24 24. The economics of information and the information society: is social equity still on the agenda in the 1990s? / Colin Darch. // In: Innovation. - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. - no. 10. - June 1995. -p. 3-12. 25. Unity before unification? South Africa's LIS organisations and the prospects for a single structure. / Colin Darch. // In: Proceedings of the Second National LIWO Conference held in Pietermaritzburg, 20-21 July 1995. - Pietermaritzburg: LIWO, 1995. - p.4-10 26. Problems in the training and education of LIS practitioners in Portuguese-speaking Africa: the case of Mozambique. / Colin Darch. // In: Education for librarianship and informa-tion science in Africa. - Ed. Michael Wise. - Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 1999. - p.35-55. 27. Academic library consortia in contemporary South Africa. / Colin Darch, Joan Rapp, Peter G. Underwood. // In: Library Consortium Management. - vol.1, no.1/2. - 1999. - p.23-32. 28. Dirt road or yellow brick superhighway- Information and communication technology in academic libraries of South Africa. / Colin Darch, Peter G. Underwood. // In: Library Hi Tech. - vol.17, no.3. - 1999. - p.285-297. 29. 'Não temos a possibilidade de herdar nada de Portugal': as raízes do exclusivismo político em Moçambique, 1969-1977. / Colin Darch, David Hedges. // In: Territórios da língua portuguesa-culturas, sociedades, políticas: anais do IV Congresso Luso-Africano-Brasileiro, 1 a 5 de setembro de 1996. - Ed. Glaucia Villas Bóas. - Rio de Janeiro: IFCS, 1999. - p.135-149. 30. The unsustainable library: does the Internet really help us in Africa? / Colin Darch. // In: Progressive Librarian. - New York. - no.17. - Summer 2000. - p.35-43. 31. The Alexandrian library, digital resources, and the shrinking public domain: a critique of the current model for delivering academic information in Africa. / Colin Darch. // In: Dar es Salaam Library Science Journal. - Forthcoming. 32. Frog voices, whispers and silences: problems and issues in collecting for an African studies library in Africa. / Colin Darch. // In: The Reference Librarian. - In preparation. 33. Samora Machel na Beira, junho de 1975: discurso político na transição para a independéncia moçambicana. / Colin Darch, David Hedges. // In: Estudos Afro-Asiáticos. - Rio de Janeiro. - In preparation

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