Christopher Morton is Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK and Lecturer in Visual and Material Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. Darren Newbury is Professor of Photographic History and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton, UK.

PrefaceList of IllustrationsList of Contributors1. Introduction, Christopher Morton and Darren NewburyPart I: Connected Histories2. Richard Buchta and the Visual Representation of Equatoria in the Later 19th Century, Christopher Morton, University of Oxford, UK3. The Missionary, the Diviner and The Chief: Distributed Personhood and the Photographic Archive of the Mariannhill Mission, Christoph Rippe, University of Leiden, the NetherlandsPart II: Ethnographies4. Redeeming some Cameroonian Photographs: Reflections on Photographs and Representations, David Zeitlyn, University of Oxford, UK5. 'Celebrating Life': The Construction of Photographic Biographies in Funeral Rites Among Kenyan Christians, Heike Behrend, University of Cologne, Germany6. The Chairman's Photographs: Political and Visual Economies in South-Western Uganda, Richard Vokes, University of Adelaide, AustraliaPart III: Political Framings7. Vernacular Recollections and Popular Photography in South Africa, John Peffer, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA8. Searching for the 'Source Community': The Ronald Ngilima Photographic Archive and the Politics of Local History in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Sophie Feyder, University of Leiden, the Netherlands 9. Going and Coming Back: Curating the Post-Apartheid Archive, Darren Newbury, University of Brighton, UK10. Okombone: Compound Portraits and Photographic Archives in Namibia, Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape, South AfricaPart IV: Archival Propositions11. Versions of Fragmented History and (Auto)biography: On and From the Kaddu Wasswa Archive, Andrea Stultiens, independent artist from the Netherlands12. Vital Signs: 21st-Century Institutions for Photography in Africa, Erin Haney, George Washington University, USA and Jennifer Bajorek, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaBibliographyIndex