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These primary sources are primarily newspapers on microfilm. They are available at the Mills Library and through Library Services.

  • African Times (Newspaper)
  • African newspapers on microfilm.
  • African Times and Orient Review (Newspaper)
  • African Mail (Newspaper)
  • Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines’ Friend [British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter]
  • Church Missionary Society. Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East.
  • Church Missionary Society. Church Missionary Atlas of the Church Missionary Society. 1859
  • Church Missionary Society. Church Missionary Intelligencer 1849-1906.
  • Church Missionary Society. Church Missionary Review 1907-1927.
  • Church Missionary Society. Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. 40 Reels 1801-1921.
  • Military Report on Egypt , Great Britain. War Office. 1906.
  • Précis of Information Concerning Nigeria and the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, 1902.
  • Précis of Information Concerning Southern Rhodesia, Great Britain. War Office. 1899.
  • Précis of Information Concerning the Gold Coast Colony, Great Britain. War Office. 1887.
  • Précis of Information South Africa: Orange River Free State and Griqualand West., Great Britain. War Office. 1878.
  • Records of the Church Missionary Society in Africa
  • Report on the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast 1899.
  • South Africa: A Collection of Miscellaneous Documents, 1912-1962.
  • South African Political Materials: A Catalogue of the Carter-Karis collection.
  • The Times (London) from 1788

Archival African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries (Available at McMaster Libraries)

  • Africano (English, Portuguese – 1908-1920: Maputo , Mozambique)
  • Beira News and East Coast Chronicle Beira News and East Coast Chronicle English, (Portuguese, 1917-1921: Beira, Mozambique)
  • Beira Post English, Portuguese – 1898-1917: Beira, Mozambique
  • Buluwayo Chronicle (English-1894-1922: Buluwayo, Zimbabwe)
  • Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser – Includes: Kaapsche Courant (English, Afrikaans 1800-1829, Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Cloche (French 1882-1892: Tamatave, Madagascar )
  • East African Standard, Mombasa Times and Uganda Argus (English 1903-1915: Mombasa , Kenya)
  • Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette (Afrikaans, Dutch, English 1850-1890-12-30:Bloemfontein, South Africa)
  • Gold Coast Indpendent (English 1918-1922: Accra, Ghana)
  • Gold Coast Leder English (1902- 1922: Cape Coast, Ghana)
  • Ilanga Lase Natal (Zulu, English 1906-1922: Durban, South Africa)
  • Imvo Zabantsundu (English, Xhosa 1884-1922-: King William’s Town, South Africa)
  • Indian Opinion (Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, English 1907-191, Durban, South Africa)
  • International (English, 1915-1924: Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • Izindaba Zabantu (Zulu, English 1910-1917: Pinetown, South Africa)
  • Izwi Labantu (Xhosa, English 1901-1909: East London, South Africa
  • Journal English (1831-1913: Grahamstown, South Africa)
  • Koranta Ea Becoana (English, Tswana 1901-1903 (Mafeking, South Africa)
  • Lagos Standard (English 1907-1920: Lagos , Nigeria)
  • Leselinyana La Lesutho (English, Sotho 1863 -1920: Moria, Lesotho)
  • Liberia Recorder (English 1902-1906, Monrovia, Liberia)
  • Mafeking Mail and Protectorate Guardian English (1899 -1922, Mafeking, South Africa)
  • Rhodesia Herald English (1904-1904: Harare, Zimbabwe)
  • South African Outlook (English, Xhosa 1870-1919: Lovedale, South Africa)
  • Swakopmunder Zeitung (German 1898- 1914: Swakopmund, Namibia