EDUBASE is a database of educational information relating to the field of black education in South Africa, covering the period from the nineteenth century to 1992. The resources curated by the EDUBASE collection including books and book chapters, journal articles, conference papers and presentations, white papers and other forms of governmental and civil society documents. In total, EDUBASE includes nearly 9000 publications on the topic of education for black South Africans. A separate database inspired by EDUBASE focusing specifically on education in the Transkei was produced by David Hiscock, and has been added to this collection. The database was originally located on UCT's servers. Over time, it migrated formats several times, from floppy disks to stiffy disks, then to CD-ROMs, a flashdrive, and finally to cloud-based storage provided here on ZivaHub. The School of Education at UCT kindly allocated space for the project up to 1992, and the physical collection now resides at UCT Libraries Special Collections, as the 'BC1584 Edubase Collection'. This collection consists of the database files in MS Access format (EDUBASE_Kallaway.mdb and EDUBASE_Hiscock_Transkei.mbd), along with a list of keywords in .csv format, and a set of instructions on how to navigate the databases as a PDF. The database itself is searchable by keyword, author or date of publication. Open versions of both databases have also been added in .csv format. The funding for the project was made possible by the authors of Apartheid and Education who agreed to donate their share of the royalties to a fund that was established for this purpose. Various people have worked on the EDUBASE over the years, including Jackie Kallaway, Deirdre Birch, Vera Hulley, David Hiscock and Debbie Sheward. Many thanks to them for making possible the development this invaluable tool for the advancement of research in this important area. Thanks also go to Gary November of the UCT Digitisation unit, who digitised the cover of the original EDUBASE printout; Adrianna Pinska and Corne Oosthuizen for their support in migrating the content from the .mdb files to open .csv spreadsheets. The references fields below contain links to Dr Peter Kallaway’s other publications on education for Black South Africans.

I wanted to find good data about representation and diversity in literature, which brought me to the following page of the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC): https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/. The following is data on books by and about Black, Indigenous and People of Color published for children and teens compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

There are two .csv files in the data set. One shows books received by the CCBC from US publishers per year that are authored and/or illustrated by a Black/African/Indigenous/Asian/Pacific Islander/Latinx person, and the other shows books received by the CCBC from US publishers per year that feature a BIPOC character. Further explanation can be found at the CCBC FAQ page.

Please note that for 2018 and 2019, the below .csv represent Asian/Pacific Islander people as one column, which is how the CCBC published the data between 2002-2017. Also note that the attached data are not the entire data collected by the CCBC. The CCBC also collects books from international publishers, and since 2018, the CCBC has been publishing data about books by/about Arabs.

All data was collected by the CCBC. Please see the following page (with the complete data) about how to cite the data in your publications/blogs/notebooks: https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/books-by-about-poc-fnn/.

I am curious to see what sorts of visualizations people can make in exploratory analysis of this data! Also, can you predict how many BIPOC books the CCBC will receive in 2020? What happens when you study against US population data?

2500+ images extracted from Old Books (1598-1907) about Africa with the corresponding metadata.

You can browse the images in PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) : https://parc-portal.org/en/search?searchText=%22Rara-Projekt%22&searchField=search0

In the .csv file, there are links to IIIF Manifest as well as to images directly.

Background: Undernutrition is a prevalent, serious, and growing concern, particularly in developing countries. Entomophagy—the human consumption of edible insects, is a historical and culturally established practice in many regions. Increasing consumption of nutritious insect meal is a possible combative strategy and can promote sustainable food security. However, the nutritional literature frequently lacks consensus, with interspecific differences in the nutrient content of edible insects generally being poorly resolved.Aims and methods: Here we present full proximate and fatty acid profiles for five edible insect species of socio-economic importance in West Africa: Hermetia illucens (black soldier fly), Musca domestica (house fly), Rhynchophorus phoenicis (African palm weevil), Cirina butyrospermi (shea tree caterpillar), and Macrotermes bellicosus (African termite). These original profiles, which can be used in future research, are combined with literature-derived proximate, fatty acid, and amino acid profiles to analyse interspecific differences in nutrient content.Results: Interspecific differences in ash (minerals), crude protein, and crude fat contents were substantial. Highest ash content was found in H. illucens and M. domestica (~10 and 7.5% of dry matter, respectively), highest crude protein was found in C. butyrospermi and M. domestica (~60% of dry matter), whilst highest crude fat was found in R. phoenicis (~55% of dry matter). The fatty acid profile of H. illucens was differentiated from the other four species, forming its own cluster in a principal component analysis characterized by high saturated fatty acid content. Cirina butyrospermi had by far the highest poly-unsaturated fatty acid content at around 35% of its total fatty acids, with α-linolenic acid particularly represented. Amino acid analyses revealed that all five species sufficiently met human essential amino acid requirements, although C. butyrospermi was slightly limited in leucine and methionine content.Discussion: The nutritional profiles of these five edible insect species compare favorably to beef and can meet human requirements, promoting entomophagy's utility in combatting undernutrition. In particular, C. butyrospermi may provide a source of essential poly-unsaturated fatty acids, bringing many health benefits. This, along with its high protein content, indicates that this species is worthy of more attention in the nutritional literature, which has thus-far been lacking.