Region
Areas of Study
General Resources
Newspapers
- African Newspapers by Country
- African Newspaper Holdings at the Library of Congress
- African Newspapers on Microform – Cooperative Africana Materials Project
- Center for Research Libraries Newspaper Collections Search
- Newspapers and Periodicals of the African Diaspora
- allAfrica
- The Daily Independent
- GhanaWeb News
- The Guardian
- Les Soleil
- The Standard
Posters
Electronic Databases
- 16th – Early 20th Century Maps of Africa
- AfricaBib
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
- Africa Porta
- African Activist Archive Project
- African Diaspora
- African Human Rights Law Reports
- African Journals Online
- African Online Digital Library
- African Studies Abstracts Online
- Africana Library Catalogs and Archives – Good starting point – Extensive list of primary source collections online (including newspapers, West African Arabic manuscripts, and film) , archives, libraries (physical and digital), theses and dissertations, etc.
- Africana Studies Research Guide (UND)
- Africa: South of the Sahara Primary Sources
- Africa: Through a Lens
- Afriterra
- Afro-Europe (For contemporary issues related to the interplay of Black and European cultures)
- British Online Archives
- Centre des Archives d’Outre-mer
- Connecting Africa
- Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
- Good resource to begin with. Includes secondary literature as well.
- Guide to Legal Databases: Africa
- H-Africa
- Henry Martyn Centre for Mission Studies Photograph Archive
- Images of Colonialism
- Images of Empire
- In the First Person (Index of oral histories)
- International Institute for Social History
- International Mission Photography Archive
- Internet African History Sourcebook
- Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (DKG) Bildarchiv
- Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Tropenmuseum Collections Online
- Voyages en Afrique
In Notre Dame Rare Books and Special Collections
- Wilhelm Beste, Evangelische-lutherische Dogmatik nach der Augustana entwickelt von Wallmann [Südafrikanische Mission] (MSE/MD 4611-1) – Unpublished theological manuscript that draws upon the earlier work of Johann Christian Wallmann (1811-1865), who was the Inspector of the Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen from 1848 to 1857. It is divided into sections labeled “Theologie,” “Anthropologie,” “Soteriologie,” and “Eschatologie.” [In German]
- S. C. Welchman Journal (MSE/MD 37812-1) – Account of the annexation of Nigeria and Captain Frederick Lugard establishing his administration there. [In English]
Suggested Liaisons:
Africa – Julie Tanaka
Africana Studies – David Dressing
