African Newspapers Online

• All Africa
• Africa Intelligence - there is a charge for articles and archives. Free e-mail alert on articles of interest.
• African News Online - links to newspapers, news agencies, online newsradio and television, and news-by-email subscriptions.
• African Perspective - weekly publication of news and analysis.
• BBC World Service: Africa - news compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• CNN.com - Inside Africa - weekly program on economic, social and cultural affairs and trends in Africa.
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - seeks to cover the full range of humanitarian issues from the abuse of human rights to the environment.
• Kidon Media Links
• OneWorldAfrica - emphasis on development, environmental and human rights activities.
• PANAPRESS Africa Wire - news from national radios, daily newspapers, and press agencies.
• World News Connection (Access by Yale IP recognition) - provides the latest two years worth of full text and summaries of newspaper articles, speeches, conference proceedings, television & radio broadcasts, books, and reports which have been collected and translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.

Below is a list of print African newspapers to which Yale has subscriptions. Newspapers are generally kept for 6-12 months in the Newspaper Room of Sterling Memorial Library. Internet versions, where available, can be found through sites listed above.

• Botswana Guardian--Keep for 1 year

• Cameroon Post--Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator

• Elima (Kinshasa)--Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator
• Le Potentiel (Kinshasa)--Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator
• Salongo--Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator
• Forum des as --Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator

• Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa) --Keep for 1 year

• The Ghanian Times --Keep for 1 year

• Standard --Keep for 2 years
• Sunday Nation (Nairobi) --Keep for 2 years
• Taifa Leo (Nairobi) --Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator

• Lesotho Today (Maseru)--Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator
• Mololi (Maseru) --Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator
• Moafrika (kept in Periodical Reading Room-x)

• The Guardian (Lagos) --Keep for 6 months
• This Day --Keep for 6 months
• Daily Independent --Keep for 6 months

• Les Soleil --Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator
• Wal Fadjri --Keep for 2 years and send to African Curator

• Die Afrikaner --Keep for 1 year
• City Press (Johannesburg) --Keep for 6 months
• Sunday Times (Johannesburg) --Keep for 1 year

• Sunday News --Keep for 2 years
• Uhuru --Keep for 2 years

• Sunday Vision --Keep for 1 year and send to African Curator

• The Herald --Keep for 6 months
• The Sunday Mail --Keep for 1 year
• Zimbabwean --Keep for 2 years

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Blake, David. Periodicals from Africa: a bibliography and union list of periodicals published in Africa. First supplement. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1984.

SML Reference Z3503 +T73 Suppl. (LC)
Supplements earlier work by Carole Travis.

Newspapers in microform. Foreign countries. Ed. by the Catalog Publication Division, Library of Congress]. Washington: Library of Congress, 1948/72-

SML Reference Z6945 +U555 (LC)

Travis, Carole. Periodicals from Africa: a bibliography and union list of periodicals published in Africa. Boston: G. K. Hall, c1977.

SML Reference Z3503 +T73 (LC)

U.S. Library of Congress. African Section. Sub-Saharan Africa: A guide to serials. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1970.

A bibliography of some 4000 journals relating to Africa south of the Sahara published in Western languages or in African languages that use the Roman alphabet. Listing is alphabetical, with title, language and place of publication, date of first issue, frequency, and Library of Congress holdings noted for each entry. Does not include newspapers.

The Cooperative African Newspapers Project has a database of African titles held by U.S. libraries. Not definitive, but extremely useful.