Collections : [Liberian Collections]

Liberian Collections

Liberian Collections

Herman B Wells Library
1320 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
Visit Liberian Collections
afstlib@indiana.edu
Attention Visiting Researchers: The Liberian Collections are currently closed for research. The Liberian Collections maintains the world’s largest non-governmental collection of Liberian materials. Holdings spanning back to the 1820s include personal papers of Liberian political leaders, intellectuals and scholars, ethnographic research records, government publications, newspapers and photographs.

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: Campus Indiana University Bloomington ✖ Remove constraint Campus: Indiana University Bloomington Creator Kandakai, Christopher K. ✖ Remove constraint Creator: Kandakai, Christopher K. Level Collection ✖ Remove constraint Level: Collection Repository Liberian Collections ✖ Remove constraint Repository: Liberian Collections

Search Results

 

1. The Fr. Christopher K. Kandakai Collection, 1928-2011 10 cubic feet; (10 records cartons)

Kandakai, Christopher K.
A student of Cuttington College, Fr. Christopher K. Kandakai became an ordained Epsicopal priest in 1951. He was Liberia's longest serving Episocpal priest and served as rector and priest-in-charge of many Episcopal churches in Liberia and trained many Episcopal theologians. Additionally, Kandakai was an avid linguist who translated the New Testament into both Gola and Vai languages. This collections contains materials pertaining to the Episcopal Church as well as to adult education and linguistics. A large selection of his materials are written in Vai, only one of two African languages with an original script, unrelated to Latin or Arabic.
Indiana UniversityLiberian Collections