'Pictorial Pan-Africanism and Apartheid': Reading Race, Collecting Cultures - The Roving Reader Files

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is an open access University of Manchester facility. The Roving Reader Files category of blog posts is produced by Alison Newby (under the pseudonym The Roving Reader) in collaboration with Hannah Niblett (Collections Access Officer). The Roving Reader Files are designed as public engagement materials, the intention being to introduce research skills and terminology to the general user/reader in an entertaining yet informative manner by revealing hidden stories, making unusual connections and sharing insights into using the Centre's collection for research. The blog post "Pictorial Pan-Africanism and Apartheid" is one of two blog posts focusing on illustrated books (the other being “From the Horse’s Mouth”). Here the work of illustrators Ife Nii Owoo and Mike Bostock is highlighted, focusing on the way in which their pictorial representations deepen the intellectual and emotional engagement of the reader with respectively ‘Pan-Africanism for Beginners’ (by Sid Lemelle) and ‘Apartheid - a Graphic Guide’ (by Donald Woods).