African Studies Resources

African Studies Resources

General African Sites
Facts on Africa
Electronic Indexes & Journals
News & Listservs
Library & Newspaper Catalogs (US, Europe & South Africa)
Organizations
Princeton Resources

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General African Web Sites

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Facts on Africa

Africa Guide detailed information on 51 countries in Africa
African govnerments on the World Wide Web links to governmental institutions on the Web: parliaments ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions, political parties
Facts on African Countries: Alphabetical List

This is a list of basic information on African countries from Univ. of Pennslyvania

MBendi AfroPaedia extensive business and commerical information on Africa, including African stock exchanges and industries such as Oil, Gas, Chemicals, Mining etc.
US State Department background Notes: Africa
World Factbook (from the CIA) includes information and maps on African countries

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Electronic Indexes & Journals

Electronic Indexes

African Studies (19th Century - Present) an combination of databases providing access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. Search information sources from Africa, Europe, and the USA, together. Published by NISC South Africa. (Princeton only)

Africabib.org Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database; indexes over 27,000 articles from over 246 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or cover the African continent.

Africabib.orgAfrican Women's bibliographic Database;

contains over 20,000 English language citations from 1986 to current; indexes books, government documents; articles in edited books; periodical and journal articles; masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.

Population Index on the Web annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other

materials on population topics. (From Princeton University)

Quarterly index to periodical literature: eastern and southern Africa. (Online) from the Nairobi, Library of Congress office. A searchable online index to materials acquired by The Library of Congress since 1991.

South African Studies combination of databases providing access to multi-disciplinary information on South Africa. (Princeton only)

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Electronic Journals

African Journals Online a project managed by INASP to promote the awareness and use of African-published journals in the sciences. AJOL 2000 offers the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from up to 50 journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.
Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa annotated list of newspapers and journals online (from Columbia Univ)
Selected Journals on Africa: Tables of Contents

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa (University of Natal) the DISA project aims "to makeaccessible to scholars and researchers world-wide, South African material of high socio-political interest which would otherwise bedifficult to locate and use." As part of that effort, DISA hasrecently announced the online availability of three South Africanjournals: _Clarion Call_ (1982-91), _Pro Veritae_ (1962-77), and_Sas_ (1956-90). A large number of additional title will be made available in the future.

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Electronic News & Listservs

Electronic News

Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa annotated list of newspapers and journals online (from Columbia Univ)

Africa Online
African News (Princeton only)
Africa Newswire Network updated daily; African news from network of reporters all over Africa. Includes news search engine.
AfricaNews Online includes reports from Africa's newspapers, magazines and news agencies, plus unedited statements and reports from governments, non-governmental organizations and other news makers.
Africa World Press Guide
ANC Newswire
Independent Online(South Africa)
News on Africa list of various news sources from U Penn
Panafrican News Agency
Star and SA Times (South Africa)
Post (Zambia)
Rwanda News
South Africa News (Princeton only)
Weekly Mail and Guardian

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Listservs & Bulletin Boards

Listservs and Discussion Groups on Africa
Bulletin Boards on Africa
H-Africa Home Page discussion list dealing with the history of the continent of Africa; includes many useful links to other internet sites.

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Library Catalogs (US, Europe & South Africa)

Newspaper catalogs

African Newspapers in American Libraries

African Newspapers Currently Received by American Libraries
African Newspapers & Media a selected list from the Electronic African Bookworm
Newspapers and Periodicals of the African diaspora database currently lists 101 titles
Union List of African Newspapers Project: Electronic Newspapers of sub-Saharan Africa

list of online newspapers available on Africa

Center for Research Libraries (Chicago)

The Cooperative African Newspapers Project
Foreign Newspapers database contains more than 6,000 newspaper titles published outside the United States. Holdings from the various Area Study Microform Projects are included.