Thanks to the microfilms, many more scholars could engage the perspectives, politics, essays, and social news by and about the extraordinary Mozambican journalists and intellectuals for whom the papers provided a voice and forum of views. With his help, the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) microfilmed BNL’s nearly complete run of the newspapers O Africano and O Brado Africano, the press of the Mozambican Grêmio Africano. I contacted my Boston University Library colleague James Armstrong to inquire about microfilming the collections. I feared the volumes would barely survive my use the pages were disintegrating under my touch and I cringed each time the staff plunked the huge volume on my desk, testing the brittle binding. While reading this book I was often reminded of the cliché, “be careful what you wish for because you might actually get it.” Decades ago, I spent months in the Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa (BNL), turning the pages of bound volumes of newspapers published in the early twentieth century in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.
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