With the support of the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, the Cameroon National archives and the British Council, Yaoundi the negatives are being archived to enable future research to take place. The collection is a rare archive of local photographic practices which, because Touselle is still working the community where they were taken, can be well documented with his assistance, thus rendering the archive considerably more important for the future than the bare collection of negatives alone. The collection will enable scholars to raise a wide range of issues about the presentation of self, changing fashions and global patterns of influence as mediated by local norms of appropriate behaviour in public.
