The Ford Foundation has announced a grant of $90,000 to the African Studies Association for a three-year program to facilitate the acquisition and use of research materials on Africa. The three main projects included in the grant are: 1) compilation of a guide to Africa-related materials in U. S. archives, in cooperation with an international program to locate unpublished materials on Africa; 2) provision of inventories of materials in the United States for study of African art and humanities; and 3) United States participation in an Oxford University project to collect personal papers of British ex-colonial administrators and to collect and photograph administrative archives in Kenya.

The program will be administered by the Archives Committee of the Association. It is anticipated that microfilm copies of certain materials collected by the project at Oxford University will be made available to American scholars under the program. Further details of the program will be announced in a later issue of the Bulletin.