Major African Studies Programs

• Boston University
• Columbia University
• Indiana University
• Michigan State University
• Northwestern University
• Ohio University
• Stanford University
• University of California at Berkeley
• University of California at Los Angeles
• University of Florida
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies
• University of Michigan
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Overseas & Other US Programs

Web Sites of Major Africana Collections

• British Library
• Columbia University Libraries
• Indiana University Library Collections
• Library of Congress - African Section
• Michigan State Libraries
• Northwestern University Library
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
• Stanford University Library African Collection
• UC Berkeley Library Collections
• UCLA Library Collections
• University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign Library
• University of Pennsylvania Library

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 Women's Bibliographic Database - more than 21,000 citations from 1986 to the present.
  • 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 consistently cover the African continent."
• 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
• Catalogue Afrika Studiecentrum - contains titles of monographs, journal articles and chapters from edited works acquired since 1988. Most entries include in-depth abstracts. University of Leiden. Includes African Studies Abstracts Online.
• 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
• Index Islamicus - Covers Islam, the Muslim world and Africa.
• 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
• 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.
• Women's Resources International - collection of ten electronic files with over 200,000 records pertaining to women's studies. (Access by IP recognition: Yale/other subscribing institutions)
• World News Connection

Dissertations

• Database of African Theses and Dissertations(Yale subscription pending)
• Dissertations & Theses - digital dissertations database
• Foreign Doctoral 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) - see also the directory of ALC members
• 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
• UNDP Africa - 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). 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 and they have an excellent web based catalog.

  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

Archives de France d'Outre-Mer

Henige, David P. A union list of Africana archival materials in microform. 2nd ed. [Madison, Wisc.: ana,arial" size="-2">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)

Mcllwaine, John.Writings on African archives; with an essay by Anne Thurston and contributions by Pino Akotia & Justus Wamukoya. London; New York: Published for the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (SCOLMA): Hans Zell Publishers, 1996.

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

Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) Guide to Collections

Government Documents

For more assistance in tracking down specific government documents, consult with the GovDocs librarian at the Social Sciences library. In addition to the ORBIS Catalog, check the Yale Law Library Catalog as well.

African Governements on the WWW

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 up through the 1970's. Among the titles in this series are:

Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, 1869-1968.	SML Z3559 B35 (LC)
British East Africa	SML Z3582 U53 (LC)
French Equatorial Africa, French Cameroons, and Togo, 1940-1958	SML 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 Z3597 U53 (LC)
Portuguese Africa	SML Reference Z3871 G53 (LC)
The Rhodesias and Nyasaland	SML Z3573 R5 U55 (LC)
Sierra Leone and Gambia	SML Z3553 S5 U53 (LC)
Spanish-Speaking Africa	SML Z2689 R57 (LC)
Uganda	SML Z3856 G7 (LC)

Dictionaries and other Language Resources

• See also listings by country.
• AfroRoman Fonts - download fonts for African languages with diacritics
• Bisharat - "research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content." Includes annotated links.
• EMELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages
• Ethnologue: Africa - language map and descriptions of languages spoken in each country.
• Omniglot - a guide to writing systems.
• POLYGLOT - An automatic language identifier that quickly recognizes the language of a phrase or single word.
• UCLA Language Materials Project - select a language from the scrolling menu and search for dictionaries, grammar books, phrase books, and other reference materials.
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries - great resource for finding language dictionaries.
• Webbook of African Language Resources - language profiles by Michigan State University.
• Yale Africa Guide InterActive: Language - resources for Swahili, Luganda, Wolof, and other languages.
  • The Kamusi Project - Internet Living Swahili Dictionary - an undertaking of the Yale Program in African Languages and the Council on African Studies at Yale University.
• Yale Guide to Resources in African Languages & Literature - links to Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu languages resources.
• Yamada Language Center: Language Guides - links for language resources on the Internet including mailing lists.

Listservs and Discussion Groups

• ADLIB- Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London catalog.
• AFRICA-L: Pan-Africa Discussion List
• AFRICA-N - news and discussion mailing list.
• H-Africa - for the discussion of Africa's history and culture and African studies in general.
• H-AfrPol - for the discussion of African political history.
• H-AfResearch - for the discussion of issues surrounding the use of primary sources in African humanities and social sciences research.
• H-SAfrica - an electronic discussion group on all aspects of South African history.
• H-West-Africa - an electronic discussion group on all aspects of West Africa.
• Kabissa - a meta site for African based lists.

Maps & Atlases

• Yale University Library Map Collection
• 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-Castaøeda 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. SML Map collection Z6027 A2 M38X.
• 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. SML, Map Collection Z6027.A2 U55X 2000 (LC)+ Oversize.

Visual Image Databases

• Africa Focus: The Sights & Sounds of a Continent - massive image database of African scenes
• African Online Digital Library
• Africa Photo - "the world's most comprehensive Africa photo file on the web"
• Basel Mission Picture Archive - photographs taken on the boundary between European and African and Asian cultures between 1850 and 1950
• UPenn Multimedia Archives on Africa - images, maps, art
• Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art - image archives

African Studies Librarians' Resources

• Africana Librarians Council (ALC)
• Africana Libraries Newsletter
• Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)
• Issues in Cataloging Non-Western Materials: Special Problems with African Language Materials
• Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)
• The African Studies Companion a Web navigator compiled by Hans M. Zell.
• The SCOLMA directory of libraries and special collections on Africa in the United Kingdom and in Europe - 5th rev. and expanded ed. / compiled and edited by Tom French
• The World of Learning Online - electronic resource

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.
• Africana Resources on the Internet - annotated links provided by Northwestern University.
• 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

• 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.