African Studies

Primary source documents include annual reports, laws, and accounts sent to the British Government by colonial administrations in Africa as well as material on Apartheid era South Africa. Series includes 14 collections.

Annotated bibliography addressing themes and topics in African Studies

Africa Commons: History and Culture is a comprehensive database for searching and discovering African materials from 1500 to today. It indexes African organizations, collections, and documents from archives around the world. Find books, magazines, newspapers, historical journals, government documents, oral history, photographs, art, music, videos, and more.

In-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic, and security developments.

Africa Commons: History and Culture is a comprehensive database for searching and discovering African materials from 1500 to today. It indexes African organizations, collections, and documents from archives around the world. Find books, magazines, newspapers, historical journals, government documents, oral history, photographs, art, music, videos, and more.

In-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic, and security developments.

A multidisciplinary index to research and publications by Africans and about Africa. Produced by NISC South Africa, it combines dozens of databases sourced from Africa, Europe and North America.

Open access to seven bibliographic databases. Search together or separately. Provides links to four external sources. Founded by Davis Bullwinkle and now hosted by the African Studies Centre Leiden.

More than 100 fully searchable newspapers published in Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part of the World Newspaper Archive.

Annotated guide to information sources--bibliographic, biographical, data, film, news, the African press, libraries, awards.

Over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose from the Heinemann's African Writers Series.

Scholarly initiative of the Oriental Institute that aims at creating an etymological database of Afroasiatic languages. This is an open access scholarly initiative.

Aggregates the reporting of 100+ African media organizations, including articles from AllAfrica reporters. Posts selected documents from governments and and non-governmental organizations.

Digital library initiative focusing on African Plants, Cultural Heritage SItes, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. Collections migrated to JSTOR and are now part of JSTOR Primary Sources.

British government files related to South Africa under the first thirty years of the apartheid regime. Broad range of material from South Africa, Britain, the United States and other countries. Part of Archives Direct.

Full text of over 1400 plays by 233 African American playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. Black Short Fiction (BLFI) contains approximately 760 stories and folktales by 19 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction.

Brings together over 50,000 pages of extremely rare, yet historically significant magazines, written and targeted specifically for Black African audiences. Developed in partnership with Sabinet, the materials have been sourced from African libraries.

Fiction, poetry, and essays by authors from Africa and the African diaspora.

The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research.

The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked Confidential Print were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.

The documents in Confidential Print: Africa begin with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa. They then follow the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italys defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. Together they cover the whole of the modern period of European colonisation of the continent from the British Governments perspective.

Features key East African newspapers from the 1940s to the early 2000s. This growing collection initially includes three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda).

Articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa.

Primary sources on the colonization of Africa in the 19th Century. Part of Gale Primary Sources Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Primary source documents include annual reports, laws, and accounts sent to the British Government by colonial administrations in Africa as well as material on Apartheid era South Africa. Series includes 14 collections.

Articles in anthropology, geography, history, and cultural studies plus photographs, maps, thematic outline, chronology, and appendix of ethnic and identity groups.

Annotated bibliography addressing themes and topics in African Studies

A comprehensive, online research encyclopedia that will combine high quality, peer-reviewed scholarship with opportunities to deeply engage readers that would not be available in a traditional printed reference work. Articles will be based on the latest, most persuasive research in the field, and will incorporate audio, visual, and video materials, as well as links to digitized archives and other primary sources.

Includes African Journals, South African News and Government, Labour, and Law (Legal). It does not include SA Media news clippings, Index to SA Periodicals or Kovsidex.

Primary law, chiefly case law, from South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland,Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. For the Republic of South Africa, coverage of court and tribunal decisions is very comprehensive.

Devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century. Consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade.

Streaming access to more than a century of African history, politics, and culture. Five film types are represented— propaganda, newsreels, documentaries, feature films, and interviews. The content supports teaching and research in African studies, film and cinema, history and world culture, race and ethnicity, women’s studies, and other areas. Content spans from the 1900s to the early 2000s.

Primary source materials focusing on colonial rule, the dispersion of exiles, and international intervention. Initially released as part of Aluka. Now a JSTOR Primary Sources collection.

Searchable database with information on 35,000 slaving voyages. Searchable by variables such as date, nation, origin and destination, etc.

Visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. Initially released as part of Aluka. Now a JSTOR Primary Sources collection.

Primary source documents include annual reports, laws, and accounts sent to the British Government by colonial administrations in Africa as well as material on Apartheid era South Africa. Series includes 14 collections.

Selected papers from the library of Colin Legum, a journalist and scholar. Includes his writings and other material on 20th century African politics. Part of the Governing Africa series.

Contains primary source materials published by political parties on both sides of the racial and ideological divide. Part of the Governing Africa series.

Blue Books and other archival material from 13 British colonies and protectorates.

Originally known as the 'Government Gazettes', each item contains the colonial laws for the year they were published. The legal records also include property for sale, probate records and bankruptcy notices. This is the first part of the three part series 'Colonial Law in Africa'. These gazettes were published alongside the African Blue Books of Statistics during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Originally known as the 'Government Gazettes', each item contains the colonial laws for the year they were published. These records cover the transfer of Southern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company to colonial rule. This is the second part of the three part series 'Colonial Law in Africa'.

These gazettes contain copies of the laws and ordinances which were introduced in the years they cover. Each item was originally published as the Government Gazette for a colony and year. Their contents include tenders of property, probate records and insolvency notices. This is the third part of the three part series Colonial Law in Africa.

This collection includes annual reports compiled by the colonial government of Gambia. It covers the period from the creation of the British administered Gambia Colony and Protectorate to independence.

The Gold Coast and British Togoland were managed by the government departments who wrote these progress reports. The statistics for Ghana, but not Togo, are included in Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953.

The colony of Kenya was managed by the government departments who wrote these A1:F79 reports. They start when Kenya was a part of the East Africa Colony and continue until independence.

This collection contains annual reports compiled by the British colonial government of Nyasaland (modern day Malawi). The documents cover the period from the dissolution of the Central African Protectorate in 1907 to Malawi’s declaration of independence and beyond.

This collection contains annual reports compiled by successive British colonial administrations in Nigeria and Cameroon. The documents cover the period from the establishment of the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos to the creation of an independent Nigerian state.

This collection contains letters and supplementary material compiled by its various West African branches during the period 1700-1850. Material from the collection coalesces around British West Africa, which contains the modern day nation-states of Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Guinea.

The colony of Uganda was managed by the government departments who wrote these progress reports. Some reports start in the 1900’s, but most reports cover from the 1920’s until independence. The statistics for Uganda are included in Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953. These reports explain why those statistics are at the levels recorded. The contents pages at the front of each report list the departments which existed at that time. Comparing the contents pages reveals how the structure of the colonial government changed over time.