Available at the Mills Library and through Library Services
- JSTOR (Access through McMaster University Library website)
- Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
- African Affairs
- Journal of the Royal African Society
- African Issues
- Issue: A Journal of Opinion
- African Studies Review
- African Studies Bulletin
- Canadian Journal of African Studies
- History in Africa
- International Journal of African Historical Studies
- African Historical Studies
- Journal of African Cultural Studies
- Journal of African History
- Journal of Modern African Studies
- Journal of Religion in Africa
- Journal of Southern African Studies
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