Selected Resources for
African Studies
Major
African Studies Programs
Web
Sites of Major Africana Collections
Databases & Indexes
- Academic
Search Premier - provides full-text coverage of nearly 1,200 journals from
1990 to the present and abstracts/indexing of nearly 3,000 journals
from 1984 to the present. (Access by IP recognition:
Yale/other subscribing institutions)
- AfricaBib.org
- African
Health Anthology - premiere collection of bibliographic databases
on African health issues. (Access by IP recognition:
Yale/other subscribing institutions)
- African Journal OnLine -
AJOL hundreds of English language African-published journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology,
health and social sciences.
- African
Studies - combination of databases providing access to multi-disciplinary
information on Africa. (Access by IP recognition:
Yale/other subscribing institutions)
- African
Studies Abstracts Online free abstracts service through the University of Leiden
- Anthropological
Index Online - from The Royal Anthropological Institute
- Art Index Retrospective
- African Studies Centre Catalogue - contains titles of monographs, journal articles
and chapters from edited works acquired since 1988. Most entries include
in-depth abstracts from the University of Leiden.
- BIOSIS/Biological Abstracts - SilverPlatter
references from life sciences: agriculture, cell biology, nutrition, public health, botany, biochemistry, biophysics,
genetics, zoology, psychology.
- Columbia International Affairs
Online (CIAO) - theory and research in international affairs.
Includes working
papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from
NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
- Contemporary
Women's Issues full-text information: journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups,
government and international agencies.
Information on women in over 190 countries in such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education,
business adminstration and political science.
- Database of African Theses and Dissertations
- Electronic
Journal of Africana Bibliography - refereed journal of bibliographies.
Microfilm collections are included. Locations of the materials are given
as well.
- Historical
Abstracts
- Kenya Indexing Project - online index of articles published in Nairobi newspapers.
- LexisNexis Academic - a full-text news and information service that provides
access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, and business & legal information.
(Access by IP recognition: Yale/other subscribing
institutions)
- Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts - LLBA the study of language including phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax and semantics. Including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and
geographical linguistics.
- MLA Bibliography
- PAIS (Public
Affairs Information Service) - covers the literature of public
affairs including political, economic and social issues. (Access
by IP recognition: Yale/other subscribing institutions)
- Quarterly
Index of African Periodicals Over 300 periodicals from the 24
eastern and southern African countries.
- South
African Studies - anthology of 9 different databases providing access
to over 533,000 records. (Access by IP recognition:
Yale/other subscribing institutions)
- Southern
African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) - contains several
databases on social, political, economic and cultural issues of the
southern African region with more than 15000 subject files.
- Gender Studies Database - collection of ten electronic files with
over 200,000 records pertaining to women's studies. (Access
by IP recognition: Yale/other subscribing institutions)
Dissertations
Associations,
Institutes and Organizations
- Africa Action -
disseminates information and
analysis to promote dialogue, debate, and U.S. & international policies
toward Africa.
- Africana Librarians Council (ALC)
- African
Development Bank
- Africa-Europe Group for
Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS)
- African
Studies Association
- African
Studies Center - Leiden University
- African Union - composed of
fifty-three independent African States.
- Association
of Concerned African Scholars
- Centre of African Studies - School of Oriental and African Studies
- CRL - Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)
- Human Rights Watch: Africa
Overview
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- Food & Agricultural Organization - part of United Nations
- International
African Institute
- International
Monetary Fund
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors Without Borders
- Southern African Development Community (SADC)
- United Nations Development Programme - reports, publications, programmes and initiatives by the
United Nations Development Program
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
- United
Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR)
- United
Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library
- United
Nations World Food Program
- World
Bank: Africa - development policies, projects, news, statistics, and list of publications.
- World
Health Organization
Films
The Curator
makes every attempt to collect the finest films made about Africa as well
as films from Africa. These films are entered into the Library Catalog
(Orbis) but are not necessarily on the open shelves. Follow the instructions
given on the catalog record. In addition, there are numerous films purchased
by other bibliographers, which may or may not be on the open shelves.
These films are listed in Orbis as well.
The
Film Studies Center at the Whitney Humanities Center
has thousands of
films. Many of the more recent purchases are also located in Orbis but
a vast number of films are not and can only be identified via printed
catalogs at the Film Center. Lastly, the PIER
office at the Yale Center
for International Area Studies (Luce Hall) contains numerous films. These
are not listed in Orbis. Inquire at the PIER Library.
Hints
for searching for films/videos in the Yale Library Catalog: If you know
the title, you may look it up in ORBIS by title. If you are looking
to see what has been catalogued for the Library, use the following approaches:
K=South
Africa and video
K=aids and video
History
Resources
Archival & Manuscript Materials
- Henige, David P. A union list
of Africana archival materials in microform. 2nd ed. [Madison, Wisc.:
University of Wisconsin?], 1984.
- SML Z3509 +H46 1984 (LC)
- Pearson, J. D. A guide to
manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to Africa.
London, England; New York: Mansell, 1993-
- SML Reference Room CD1048 AS
M37 1993 (LC)
- South, Aloha. Guide to non-federal
archives and manuscripts in the United States relating to Africa.
London; New York: H. Zell Publishers, 1988. 2 v.
- SML Reference CD3002 S68 1989
(LC)
- South, Aloha. Guide
to Federal archives relating to Africa. [Waltham, Mass.: African
Studies Association, 1977].
- SML Reference Z3509 +S67 (LC)
- Yale Divinity School Library
- Yale Manuscripts and Archives
Government Documents
- Alman, Miriam. Debates of
African legislatures. Cambridge: Heffer [for the] Standing Conference
on Library Materials on Africa, 1972.
- SML Z3509 A44 (LC)
- Boston University. Libraries
Catalog of African government documents and African area index. 2nd
ea., revised and enlarged. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1964.
- SML Z3508 G6 B67 1964 (LC)
BUL catalog-online updates this.
- New York (City). Public Library.
Research Libraries. Catalog of the Government Publications in the
Research Libraries. Boston: G. K. Hal, 1972. 40v.
- SML Reference Z7164 G7 +N695
1972 (LC)
A catalog of the more than one million volumes of government publications
and public documents in the collection. Entry is by issuing agency;
no subject approach.
Updated by NYPL-RL-OPAC.
- South, Aloha. Guide
to Federal archives relating to Africa. [Waltham, Mass.: African
Studies Association, 1977].
- SML Reference Z3509 +S67 (LC)
- Witherell, Julian W. The United
States and Africa: guide to U.S. official documents and government-sponsored
publications on Africa, 1785-1975. Washington: General Reference
and Bibliography Division, Reader Services Dept., Library of Congress,
[1978]
- SML Reference Z3501 +W58 (LC)
Also: SSL, Reference Z3501 +W58 (LC)
- ______. The United States
and sub-Saharan Africa: guide to U.S. official documents and government-sponsored
publications, 1976-1980. Washington: Library of Congress: For sale
by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1984.
- SML Reference Z3501 +W58 1984
(LC)
- U.S. Library of Congress. African
Section. Guides to Official Publications.
- A series which lists official
publications and gives their locations in American libraries. These
publications are particularly useful in that they cite official documents
of the old trading companies, of the colonizing countries, of the local
colonial governments, and of international bodies such as the League
of Nations and the United Nations, as well as those of the present day
government. Among the titles in this series are:
| Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, 1869-1968. |
SML Reference Z3559 B35 (LC) |
| British East Africa |
SML Reference Z3582 U53 (LC) |
| French Equatorial Africa, French Cameroons, and Togo, 1940-1958 |
SML Reference Z3691 U53 (LC) |
| French-Speaking Central Africa |
SML Reference Z3692 E57 (LC) |
| French-Speaking West Africa |
SML Reference Z3672 W57 (LC) |
| Ghana, 1872-1968 |
SML Reference Z3785 W57 (LC) |
| Madagascar and Adjacent Islands |
SML Reference Z3702 U53 (LC) |
| Nigeria |
SML Reference Z3597 U53 (LC) |
| Portuguese Africa |
SML Reference Z3871 G53 (LC) |
| The Rhodesias and Nyasaland |
SML Reference Z3573 R5 U55 (LC) |
| Sierra Leone and Gambia |
SML Reference Z3553 S5 U53 (LC) |
| Spanish-Speaking Africa |
SML Reference Z2689 R57 (LC) |
Dictionaries and other Language
Resources
Listservs
and Newsgroups
Maps & Atlases
- Antiquarian
Maps of Africa - from Yale's Map Collection.
- CIA
World Factbook Reference Maps
- ComputaMaps
- offers free digital maps of African countries.
- LookSmart
Maps of Africa
- Oddens'
Bookmarks of Maps and Atlases
- Perry-Casta�eda
Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin) - modern
and historical
maps.
- United
Nations Cartographic Section (pdf format)
- Ady, Peter Honorine. Africa.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.
SML G2446 Gl A33 1965 (LC)
An economic survey and comparative statistics illustrated through regional
and topical maps of Africa in the mid-twentieth century. Includes a
gazetteer.
- Auger, Alain. L'Afrique historique
et geographique. St. Germain-en-Laye: Editions M.D.I., 1977.
SML, Map Collection G2445 +A83
1977 (LC)
- The Cambridge atlas of the
Middle East & North Africa. Gerald Blake, John Dewdney, Jonathan
Mitchell, eds. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University
Press, 1987.
SML, Map Collection Folio DS44
C36 1987
- Fage, J. D. An atlas of African
history. 2d ed. Mew York: African Publishing Company, 1978.
SML, Map Collection DT4 +F3 1978
(LC) (Non-Circulating)
- Hearn, P. Global GIS database. Digital atlas of Africa [computer file]
- Kasule, Samuel, Dr. The history
atlas of Africa. New York : Macmillan, c1998.
SML, Map Collection G2446 S1
L378 1998 (LC)
- The atlas of Africa. [1st
American ea.] New York, Free Press, [c1973].
SML Starr Reference Room, Atlas
Case Folio G2445 F7313 1973 (LC)
- Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. The
new atlas of African history. London: Macmillan, 1991.
SML, Map Collection G2446 Sl
+F746 1991 (LC) (Non-Circulating); CCL, Reference, Upper Level G2446
Sl +F746 1991 (LC)
- Historical atlas of Africa.
general editors, J.F. Ade Ajayi & Michael Crowder; geographical editor,
Paul Richards; linguistic editor, Elizabeth Dunstan; cartographic designer,
Alick Newman. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
SML, Map Collection Folio G2446
S1 H5 1985
- Maps and Mapping of Africa: A Resource Guide - by John McIlwaine
- L'atlas de l'Afrique - by Danielle Ben Yahmed
- Maps of Africa to 1900: a checklist of maps in atlases and geographical journals in the collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - by Thomas J. Bassett & Yvette Scheven
Museums,
Exhibits, and Special Collections
Visual Image
Databases
African
Studies Librarians' Resources
WWW
Gateways
- An
A-Z of African Studies on the Internet - annotated guide by Peter
Limb.
- African
Studies Companion Online - one of the most essential tools to researchers in African studies
- Africa
Online - directory of Internet resources with news coverage.
- Africa
Research Central - gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums
with important collections of African primary sources
- Africa
Resource Center - links to e-journals, bibliographies, databases,
artistic works, and scholarly essays.
- Africa
South of the Sahara - extensive, annotated links of resources by
topic or country.
- African Governments
on the Web
- Africaserver
- annotated links arranged by subject or country. Includes online exhibitions
by African artists.
- Index
on Africa - searchable directory of Internet resources.
- Nordic
Africa Institute: A Guide to Africa on Internet - links to country
information, subject resources, journals, search engines, and research
institutes.
Additional
Resources
- Africa
Data Dissemination Service - provides satellite imagery, maps, and
field information collected from Africa.
- Africa:
African World Press Guide - electronic edition of an annotated guide
to educational resources from and about Africa. The 28 topical chapters
cover areas such as African cinema, women, refugees, human rights, African
literature and more.
- African
Human Rights Resource Center - provides full-text charters, conventions
and other instruments in addition to general resource links and bibliographies.
- African
Music Archive - focuses on modern African music. Some pages in German.
- African
Music Encyclopedia - browse by artist or country. Includes related
links and resources.
- African
Philosophy Resources
- African
Political Resources
- Aluka - Aluka's
mission is to build and support a sustainable, online database of scholarly resources from the developing world,
beginning in Africa, with content that is important for research and teaching both in the countries of the region and in
the worldwide scholarly community.
- Center
for Research Libraries - description of microfilm
holdings such as African census reports and British parliamentary papers
on the Slave Trade. Materials are available through inter-library loan.
- Oneworld
- global issues from different perspectives.
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