Africa

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Guide for African digital libraries and resources for finding digital collections on Africa

Periodical Articles

Finding Periodical Articles and Book Reviews on Africa

Harvard Library E-Resources

African Diaspora, 1860-Present offers personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera, etc. from African diasporic communities largely in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.

African blue books of statistics, 1821-1953

Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980

Apartheid Through the Eyes of South African Political Parties, 1948-1994

Arabic literature of Africa online, edited by J.O.Hunwick, R.S. O'Fahey. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, MA : Brill

The bibliography of Islam in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (1960-2005) offers references, many with abstracts to secondary literature in European languages

Black short fiction and folklore from Africa and the African diaspora offers stories, folktales, and short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.

BrillOnline primary sources. Western travellers in the Islamic world online covers travelogues on the Ottoman Empire, Ethiopia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, North Africa, and Iran.
Full text content in English, German, French, Italian, and Latin.

The European colonialism in the early 20th century series comprises U.S. consular correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, and other kinds of documents reporting on the activities of the colonial government and of the native peoples.

European colonialism in the early 20th century. Political and economic consolidation of Portuguese colonies in Africa, 1910-1929

European colonialism in the early 20th century : Italian colonies in North Africa and aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939
Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Italy, 1930-1939.

European colonialism in the early 20th century. French colonialism in Africa: from Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930 (actually -1910-1941)

European colonialism in the early 20th century: German colonies to League of Nations mandates in Africa 1910-1929
of the originals from the National Archives (U.S.).; "Record Group 59, Records of the U.S. State Department, Central Classified Files, Class 800, Germany, 1910-1929.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 (British Colonial Office and Foreign Office Papers)

Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Africa and Middle East, 1960-1969  (ProQuest History Vault) For an overview of contents, select Browse and scroll down to International Relations and Military Conflicts

Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1835‐1910

Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters

Ghana and Togo under colonial rule, in Government reports, 1843-1957

Liberia and the U.S.: nation-building in Africa, 1918-1935 (actually 1922-1935) consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by American diplomats, as well as records of American citizens and companies with relations to Liberia. Includes information on quarantine restrictions from U.S. agencies, such as the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce; records of advertising media in Africa, such as newspapers and trade publications in French and Portuguese. Contains correspondence with the U.S. Department of Commerce from American companies exporting to Liberia; and details on the International Exposition of American Import Trade (1930).

Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994

Missionary Archives from Lesotho, 1832-2006 contains archives of the Lesotho missionary-historian, D.F. Ellenberger. Includes the Lesotho Evangelical Church magazine, the Leselinyana (1863-2006). Includes historical maps, church archives, personal registers (birth, baptism, and marriage)

Nigeria and Cameroon under colonial rule, in Government reports, 1887-1960