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international trade fair
Within two years of independence (October 1, 1960) from the United Kingdom, Nigeria, recognizing the importance of marketing its products on a global basis, hosted its first international trade fair, announced by this poster. As President Obasanjo would say of a later fair held in Lagos in 1977 at the recently constructed fair complex, "a trade fair is a market organized to promote trade, where buyers and sellers gather to transact business. . . . Nigeria wants to and ought to participate in the more lucrative aspect of this international trade."
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Selected Writings about the Africana Collections

Duignan, Peter. Handbook of American Resources for African studies. [Stanford]: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1967. pp. 40-51.

Gosebrink, Jean E. Meeh. African Studies Information Resources Directory. Oxford, England: H. Zell, 1986. pp. 145-46.

"A partial revision of Peter Duignan's Handbook of American Resources for African Studies (1967)"

Gray, Beverly A. "Africana Acquisitions at the Library of Congress." In Africana Resources and Collections: Three Decades of Development and Achievement: A Festschrift in Honor of Hans Panofsky, edited by Julian W. Witherell. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989. pp. 62-76.

Library of Congress. Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 27, no. 3 (July 1970): 184-283. This entire issue on Africana in the Library's collections contains articles on various materials concerning Africa written in celebration of the African Section's tenth anniversary.

South, Aloha. Guide to Non-federal Archives and Manuscripts in the United States Relating to Africa. London; New York: H. Zell Publishers, 1989, c1988. Vol. 1, pp. 146-339.

Zellers, Joanne M. "The Library of Congress African Section." In African Studies: Papers Presented at a Colloquium at the British Library, 7-9 January 1985. edited by Ilse Sternberg and Patricia M. Larby. London: The Library in association with SCOL MA, 1986. pp. 289-98.


A mural painting, from a house in southern Lunda is pictured on a postcard produced for the Companhia de Diamantesde Angola (1960s), from the collection of the Museu do Dundo, Angola.
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mural painting

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