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CURRENT INFORMATION SOURCES and CURRENT LITERATURE SOURCES
IN LEHMAN LIBRARY

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/africoid.html

Current Information Sources in Lehman Library:
Sub-Saharan Africa

This is a short list of factual information sources on Africa south of the Sahara; all are located in the Reference area in Lehman Library, unless another location is given.

Please ask the Reference staff or Yuusuf Caruso, the African Studies Librarian (308 Lehman Library), for other suggestions. See also, the "basic guide" at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/joebib.html.

Still a useful print guide to sources on individual countries is: Africa: a guide to reference material by John McIlwaine (Z 3501 .M3 1992).

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community   Access Restrictions: available to current Columbia faculty, staff and students only.

  • Africa confidential. Semimonthly. 1964- .
    Current issues - Lehman periodicals room, Lehman stacks - DT 1 .Af81
    Service restricted to members of the Columbia community 1998 to 2006 -and- 2007 to present (via EBSCO)

  • Africa contemporary record. Annual. 1968/69- .
    DT 1 .Af815

  • Africa research bulletin. Monthly. 1964- .
    Political, social, and cultural series.
    Current issues in Reference - DT 1 .A21211
    Service restricted to members of the Columbia community 1997 to present online (via Blackwell-Synergy)
    Economic, financial, and technical series.
    Current issues in Reference - HC 501 .A1 A35
    Service restricted to members of the Columbia community 1997 to present online (via Blackwell-Synergy)


  • Africa south of the Sahara. Annual. 1971- .
    Latest at Reference Desk - DT 351 .A35

  • Africa today. 3rd ed. 1996.
    DT 1 .A2542

  • Africa Who's Who. 3rd ed. 1996.
    DT 18 .A22

  • African recorder. Semimonthly. 1962- .
    Current issues in Reference - DT 1 .A228

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community AllAfrica.Com -- Current and Archive (Washington, DC)
    Selected articles from electronic African newspapers and other sources, with searchable archive, in English and French; includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997.

  • Atlas of African Affairs. 2nd ed. 1994.
    G 2445 .G7 1994

  • Black Africa: a comparative handbook. DT 352.8 .M67 1989
    (a condensed version is Understanding Black Africa. DT 352.5 .M67 1989)

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Factiva.Com. (New York: Dow Jones and Reuters, c2002--)
    A subscription-based, searchable, plain text, news service derived from selected US and international business and general news sources, with coverage since the mid to late 1990s. African news sources include selected archives from online African newspapers via AllAfrica.Com and others.


  • Newspapers from Sub-Saharan Africa - Currently Received, 2nd Floor, Lehman Library, Current Foreign Newspapers.
    Columbia University currently subscribes to only 9 newspapers from eastern, southern, and western Africa. For electronic newspapers available on the global Internet, see the
    AFRINUL Project: Electronic Newspapers of Africa (inc. North Africa) at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/newspapers.html


  • Peoples of the world: Africans South of the Sahara. 1991.
    GN 645 .M6 1991g

  • Political and economic dictionary of Africa.
    DT30.5 .S433 2005

  • Political and economic encyclopaedia of Africa.
    DT 20 .A844 1993g

  • Summary of world broadcasts. Part 5: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation)
    Daily, with weekly economic report. 1965-2001.
    Lehman stacks - DS 49.7 .B7711
    Service restricted to members of the Columbia communityFor current reports of BBC Worldwide Monitoring, see: Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
    -- Use "Guided News Search" in World News


  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community World News Connection
    The internet version of FBIS Publications since 1994. WNC provides the current and recent foreign news, translated and updated daily, searchable in a variety of ways, including a listing of today's top headlines.

For individual countries, see the Area Handbook Series prepared by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Department of the Army. You can locate series volumes in CLIO under title Area Handbook Series and under individual title, [Name of Country], a country study. Current editions are in paper copy and on Countries of the World CD-ROM in the Reference area.



Current Literature Sources in Lehman Library:
Sub-Saharan Africa

This is a short list of bibliographies and indexes to help you find books, articles and other printed materials on Africa south of the Sahara; all are located in the Reference area unless another location is given. Please ask the Reference staff or Yuusuf Caruso, the African Studies Librarian (308 Lehman Library), for other suggestions.
  • Africa bibliography. Annual. 1984- .
    Z 3501 .A57

  • Africa since 1914; a historical bibliography.
    Z 3501 .A44 1985

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Africa-Wide NiPAD formerly "African Studies" and "South African Studies" Quarterly. 1997-.
    LibraryWeb.

  • African Bibliographic Center. Current bibliography on African affairs. Quarterly. 1963- .
    Index Table - Z 3501 .Af86

  • African studies abstracts. Quarterly. 1994-2002.
    Continues: Leiden (Netherlands). Rijksuniveriteit.
    Afrika-Studiecentrum. Documentatieblad. (see below)
    Index Table - Z 3501 .L371
    For 2003 onwards only: ASA Online

  • Bibliographie de l'Afrique sud-Saharienne, sciences humaines et sociales. Annual. 1978- .
    Z 5113 .T331

  • Delancey, Mark. Handbook of political science research on Sub-Saharan Africa: trends from the 1960s to the 1990s.
    JA 84 .A337 H36 1992

  • International African bibliography. Quarterly. 1971- .
    Index Table - Z 3501 .I54

  • International development abstracts. Bimonthly. 1982- .
    Index Table - HC 59.7 .I11

  • Leiden (Netherlands). Rijksuniversiteit. Afrika-Studiecentrum. Documentatieblad. Quarterly. 1968-93.
    Continued by African Studies Abstracts (above).
    Z 3501 .L37

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community PAIS international. Monthly. 1915- .
    LibraryWeb, back issues in print in Lehman stacks - Z 7163 .P922

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Social sciences citation index. Triannual. 1956- .
    LibraryWeb or Lehman Reference Desk - Z 7161 .S65

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community Social sciences full text. Index, 1983-. Full text, 1995-.
    LibraryWeb

  • U.S. Library of Congress. African Section. Africa south of the Sahara: index to periodical literature, 1900-1970, and supplements, 1971-1985.
    Z 3503 .U47

  • Witherell, Julian. The United States and Africa: guide to U.S. official documents and government-sponsored publications on Africa, 1785-1975; and Supplement, 1976-1980
    (supplement covers only sub-Saharan Africa).
    Z 3501 .W57 and Z 3501 .W58 1984

For individual countries, see the World Bibliographical Series published by ABC-CLIO. You can locate them in CLIO under title World Bibliographical Series, then under country name.

Documents Service Center, 327 Lehman Library, has reports on international and domestic affairs published by the United States government, as well as collections of statistical publications from international organizations, and declassified documents.

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