Online Resources
Expandable List
- Swahili Cities of East Africa (Video clip from Basil Davidson’s “Africa”)
- PBS “Secrets of the Pharaohs”
- Different But Equal (Video Clip)
- All Africa.com – formerly Africa News On Line
- AfricaFiles – Human Rights and economic justice network
- Africa Online Inc. – Archives of numerous African newspapers
- Africa Action
- Channel Africa (from South Africa), including online radio
- IRIN – Integrated Regional Information Network (UN)
- Panapress – Pan African News Agency
- USAfrica Online
- Africa Past and Present – The podcast about African history, culture, and politics
- Africa Map – Geographic analysis of continental trends
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- Carleton University – Institute of African Studies
- Dalhousie University – Centre for African Studies
- McGill University – Institute for the Study of International Development
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Toronto
- University of Western Ontario – The Africa Institute
- York University – Harriet Tubman Institute
- BBC World Service – Africa, including the online radio Network Africa
- Institute for Cultural Diplomacy – The African Diaspora
- The World Bank – African Diaspora Program (ADP)
- African American Poetry
Bahamas
Barbados
Haiti
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
- CNN Interactive-Africa
- The New York Times – Africa index
- Washington Post Africa Page , including AP Wire Link
- Afropop – African Music
- Africa on the Web – Websites about Africa
- H-Net Africa – Discussions about Africa
- Images from Africa – Images and Sights from Africa
- African Studies Association – African Studies Association, USA
- Canadian Association of African Studies – Canadian Asociation of African Studies
- Library of African Cinema – Films about Africa
- Al Jazeera Africa – African current events
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Rwanda
Sudan
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Botswana
Malawi
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Liberia
Mali
Nigeria
Research Resources
Expandable List
- How to read a Historical Document
- Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Collections (Available on JANUS)
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960
- British Paliamentary Hansards online
- The West African Squadron and slave trade
- Digitised British Historical Parliamentary Material
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- African Activist Archive
- National Archives of South Africa
- Aluka
- Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa Collection
- African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes
- The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University houses the largest collection of African-related materials in existence
- Black Pharaohs: An ignored chapter of history tells of a time when kings from deep in Africa conquered ancient Egypt (National Geographic)
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
- How to read a Historical Document
- Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Collections (Available on JANUS)
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960
- British Paliamentary Hansards online
- The West African Squadron and slave trade
- Digitised British Historical Parliamentary Material
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- African Activist Archive
- National Archives of South Africa
- Aluka
- Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa Collection
- African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes
- The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University houses the largest collection of African-related materials in existence
- Black Pharaohs: An ignored chapter of history tells of a time when kings from deep in Africa conquered ancient Egypt (National Geographic)