African History: Secondary Sources
A guide to online resources for the study of African history.
Last Updated: Dec 13, 2024 1:20 PM
Secondary Sources
- AfricaBibAfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. The site consists of databases covering Africana periodical literature (Africana Periodical Literature) and African Women's literature (African Women), and comprehensive bibliographies on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa), Islam in Africa, the Kenya Coast, Water and Africa, and Education in Africa. (from the website)
- African Journals Online (AJOL)African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world’s largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. (from the website)
- Bioline InternationalBioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. (from the website)
- Connecting-AfricaConnecting-Africa is a gateway to African research information and materials produced worldwide. It provides access to 69013 publications from 94 repositories as well as information on 1353 Africa experts (researchers, policymakers, development practitioners) and on 891 organisations (research or development-related institutes with expertise on Africa). (from the website)
- Gallica: Voyages en AfriqueDécouvrez l'Afrique à travers les récits des voyageurs. 900 volumes de textes, 30 titres de revues, 80 cartes venant des collections imprimées de la BnF, 20 heures d'enregistrements sonores des fonds du Musée de la parole et du geste et 6500 photographies issues des fonds de la Société de géographie. Ce site s'enrichira de nouveaux documents tout au long de l'année 2002 (textes et revues, cartes, estampes, manuscrits). En français. (from the website)
- Internet African History SourcebookA vast collection of links to resources across the web about the entire scope of African history.
- Library of Congress: An Annotated Bibliography of South SudanThis bibliography includes a selection of government documents, books, periodicals, and maps on Africa’s newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan. The list is based on the Library of Congress’ Africana Collections. Within each subject the entries are arranged alphabetically by personal or corporate author or title. The call number appears on a separate line beneath the main body of the entry. (from the document)
- Library of Congress: Africana E-Journals Finding AidThis online directory provides a listing of selected journals related to the field of African Studies that are available in electronic format, also known as e-journals. It includes both western e-journals and e-journals published in Africa that are accessible in full text format in major commercial and open access databases on the Internet. Journal titles are listed in alphabetical order with the database source location. (from the document)
- Library of Congress Digital Collections: Country StudiesContains the electronic versions of 80 books previously published in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. Intended for a general audience, books in the series present a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world. Most books in the series deal with a single foreign country, but a few cover several countries or a geographic region. Each book was written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists, who sought to adhere to accepted standards of scholarly objectivity. (from the website)
- Michigan State University: African Studies CenterThe African Studies Center is one of a suite of highly respected international studies programs at MSU, whose purpose is to offer a truly global education while engaging in cutting edge research on the world's most pressing challenges. (from the website)
- Universiteit Leiden, African Studies Center: African Studies Abstracts Online (ASA Online)ASA Online succeeds the printed abstracts journal of the African Studies Centre Leiden, published since 1968, first as Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (1994-2002). It provides a quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the ASCL library. (from the website)
- University of Florida, Center for African Studies: African Studies QuarterlyThe Center for African Studies founded the African Studies Quarterly (ASQ) to promote research on Africa beyond that undertaken by University of Florida faculty and graduate students. It is an interdisciplinary, fully refereed, online open access journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to the African continent. (from the website)
- University of Iowa: Electronic Journal of Africana BibliographyElectronic Journal of Africana Bibliography (EJAB) is a refereed online journal of bibliographies. Coverage includes any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable development, creative literature, the arts, and the Diaspora.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library, History: Africa IndexA vast index of resources and websites hosted by the oldest virtual library on the web.
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