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Bibliographies & Resource Guides in African Studies

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• Africa--General
• Central Africa
• Eastern Africa
• Northern Africa
• Southern Africa
• Western Africa
• Special Topics

Africa -- General

• Africa Access Review (Brenda Randolph, Silver Spring, Maryland)
  "Africa Access was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collections on Africa. Our online database, Africa Access Review, contains over 1000 annotations and reviews of books for children. These critiques and descriptions are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies. In recent years, we have expanded beyond our original mission to include Research and Reading projects."
  
  
• Africa: Africa World Press Guide to Educational Resources from and about Africa. (Online) Compiled and edited by WorldViews. -- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 1997.
  This web site is the electronic version of a 200+ page illustrated book. The electronic edition contains the full text of the chapters, without illustrations, and very helpful, albeit incomplete, bibliographic citations. A full bibliography of the works cited in the text is only available in the print edition.
  
  
• Africa South of the Sahara: Select Internet Resources
  (Stanford University / Electronic Technology Group)
  
  
• Africa-Wide NiPAD Index -- Fact Sheet (NISC-National Information Services Corporation InJohannesburg, South Africa ; Baltimore, Maryland)
  This promotion page describes in detail the contents and order information for this subscription-based database...a combination of two services previously produced by NISC: "African Studies" and "South African Studies".
  
  
• African Civilizations: Internet Resources & Reference In Print, 1999-. Compiled by Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University.
  An online guide in support of a core-curriculum, undergraduate course at Columbia College entitled "Contemporary Civilization: African Civilizations".
  
  
• African Journals On-Line -- AJOL: Tables of Contents, Abstracts, Document Delivery, & Subscription Information. (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK)
  AJOL offers tables-of-contents and abstracts for over 210 African-published journals, and a photocopy order service for articles listed.
  
  
• African Media Program (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  "The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media." The website features a searchable catalog, with film reviews and some tips on where to find items.
  
  
• AFRINUL: African Newspapers Union List. A project of the Cooperative Africana Microform Project. (The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois)
  • Currently, a searchable database of holdings in North America. "Initially, this database ... will consolidate holdings information for collections in North America, but will later expand to include holdings in Africa, Europe, and elsewhere."
  • See also: Newspapers of Africa on Microfilm at Columbia University Libraries below.
  
  
• African Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database (AfricaBib.Org, Davis Bullwinkle, University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
  A searchable database, organized by region, country, subject, and journal title. "This work was originally begun in September of 1974 as an effort to index all the issues of each periodical/journal title and place them all in one source. This English language database indexes over 26,000 articles from over 200 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. The titles were originally chosen from the library at California State University-Chico and that number were later expanded by using materials from Northwestern University and other major university libraries as well as the Library of Congress."
  
  
• The African studies companion: a guide to information sources -- 2006 (Hans Zell Publishing Consultants, Scotland, UK)
  The publisher's website for the 3rd edition of this invaluable print reference for African studies, with free access to the contents and introduction, and online registration for owners of the print edition.
  
  
• African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Resources (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • African studies abstracts. (Online) -- Leiden, The Netherlands: Afrika Studiecentrum, Leiden University, 2003-
  • ASC Library Web Dossiers, 2001-- (Library, Documentation & Information Department)
    A frequently-updated, archive of library guides for selected topics in African studies, including HIV/AIDs (2003), African Cinema, Islam in Nigeria, Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Sudan & the Nuba.
  
  
• African Theses and Dissertations -- on the Internet (Karen Fung, Africa South of the Sahara--Selected Internet Resources, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California)
  
  
• Africana Librarianship, Book Dealers, & Publishers (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• "Africana resources for undergraduates: a bibliographic essay (1995)" by Dr. Nancy J. Schmidt. Excerpt from Africa. 3rd. ed. Ed. by Phyllis Martin and Patrick O'Meara. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  
  
• Africana Collection: Manuscripts & Archives at the University of Florida (Dan Reboussin, Gainesville, Florida)
  This site offers bibliographies and general information about some of the unique archival collections at the George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida: including those on Chad, Northern Nigeria, Dem. Rep. of Congo (ex-Zaire), Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
  
  
• Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie: CIFDI--Carrefour international francophone de documentation et d'information: Recherches d'informations (Bordeaux, France)
  On peut chercher beaucoup de références dans les bases de données du Cifdi. Les bases de données sur l'education et l'enseignement du français et l'information produit par l'AIF. Mais aussi, ce site contient:
  -- BIDA Base: Bibliographie internationale de Droit africain.
  -- Voir aussi, le page d'accueil du Cifdi.
  
  
• Basic Guide to Research on Africa at Columbia University Libraries
  
  
• Bioline Publications Abstracts, Full Text, and Document Service (Centro Referência Informação Ambiental, Brazil ; Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
  Twelve African studies journals in the medical, food, and biological sciences from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and South Africa. View the abstracts without charge; view online full texts from selected journals; and receive full texts for others with paid registration.
  
  
• Books in African languages: recent acquisitions 1999-2000, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University. With addenda to the previously published catalog. Compiled by D.W. Bade. PAS working papers ; no. 8, vol. 3. (2004) -- Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Program of African Studies, 2004. (120 pp. in PDF format)
  -- See also: Volumes 1-2 (2000) (1045 pp. in PDF format)
  
  
• Children's Literature Research Unit, University of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Select bibliographies of South African and other African children's literature.
  
  
• "China in Africa" Web Dossier (April 2008) -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre and Leiden University Library, Documentation and Information Department, 2008.
  
  
• CLIO en Afrique: bulletin d'anthropologie et d'histoire africaine en langue française. (Online) -- Paris : Le Groupe de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1997-
  • Dans ces dossiers de la revue CLIO en Afrique, on peut lire des études bibliographiques suivantes:
  • << Sources orales de l'histoire de l'Afrique >>
  • << Interprétations du génocide de 1994 ... du Rwanda >>
  • << Histoire de la Namibie du Sud >>
  • << Sources d'histoire sociale et religieuse de l'ouest saharien (Mauritanie) >>
  
  
• Commemorating Walter Rodney's 25th Anniversary (2005): Bibliography of Rodney's works on African history, contemporary Africa, Caribbean & Pan-African themes, and Guyana (Walter Rodney 25 Anniversary Commemoration Committee, United Kingdom)
  
  
• Contemporary Africa Database (The Africa Centre, London, UK)
  A searchable, online database of "experts" (academic and non-academic; little or no contact info), institutions, and chronologies of important events and dates for Africa since 1950.
  
  
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: List of Theses Sponsored by CODESRIA (listed by subject, from 1998 to 2002) (Dakar, Senegal)
  
  
• Current Information & Current Literature Sources on Sub-Saharan Africa in Lehman Library, Columbia University
  
  
• Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries.)
  
  
• Enfant en situation de conflit armé et de violence urbaine: bibliographie annotée et signalétique. Par Tshikala K. Biaya. Monograph series. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2002. (en format PDF)
  
  
• "Foreign periodicals on Africa," by John Bruce Howell, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries. In Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) no. 2., 1997. (University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City)
  
  
• Guide to Videos in African Studies at Columbia University
  
  
• "Guides, Collections & Ancillary Materials to African Archival Resources in the United States," by John Bruce Howell, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries; and Yvette Scheven, Bibliographer Emerita for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) no. 1, 1997. (The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City)
  
  
• Home Pages and/or Tables of Contents of Selected African Studies Journals (H-Africa, Humanities-Net, Michigan State University, East Lansing)
  
  
• Institute for International Studies, Department for Development Research -- CDR Library Papers. Formerly Centre for Development Research. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  This archive offers a selection of downloadable (PDF) bibliographies from the centre staff....mostly on African development studies: Tanzania, Francophone Africa, and the "Third World".
  
  
• LITAF: Littératures africaine francophone -- Une base de données bibliographique (Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France)
  Une réference générale qui existe en version WEB et en version cédérom. "LITAF est un projet du Groupe de recherche "Littératures d'Afrique noire" dirigé par Alain Ricard, directeur de recherches au Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Le Groupe est affilié au Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire de Bordeaux."
  
  
• Newspapers of Africa on Microfilm at Columbia University Libraries (New York)
  
  
• The quiet struggle: information and libraries for the people of Africa, 2nd ed., by Paul Sturges and Richard Neill (1998) -- London: Mansell ; Leicestershire, UK: Loughborough University, 2005 (1998). PDF format
  
  
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Département d'Histoire, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Dakar, Sénégal)
  -- Thèses et Mémoires de la Faculté des Lettres depuis 1962 en format PDF
  
  
  
• Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne -- Mutations africaines dans la longue durée: Ressources
  • Cette partie du site comprend un recueil de bibliographies et les résumés des thèses qui ont été achevé récemment à Paris I.
  • Voir aussi: les tables de matières de la revue Cahiers du CRA (Centre de recherches africaines)
  
  
• Université Paris VII, L'Afrique à Paris 7: Documents -- Archives, Les Centres de Documentation, La Recherche Africaniste, Bibliographies Thématiques, Comtes-Rendus (Sedet/Groupe de recherche Afrique noire et Océan indien, Paris, France)
  
  
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Bibliographic Resource Guides (Al Kagan)
  - Africana at the UIUC Library--Home Page
  - Africana Research Guides

• The Art of Kuba Weaving: Suggested Reading (Compiled by Yuusuf Caruso, Columbia University)
  A short bibliography on the Kuba of central Africa and their cloth traditions ; compiled for an exhibition held at Columbia University.
  
  
  
• Bibliografia sobre Guinea Ecuatorial -- Madrid : Platforma por la Democratización de Guinea Ecuatorial; via CC.OO., [1997]
  
  
• Bibliographie de l'archéologie de l'Afrique centrale (2006) (Dr. Bernard Clist, Grasse, France)
  • Voir aussi: le site principal, Anthropology Back Door to the Web: L'Afrique centrale
  
  
• Bibliography on the Ethnography of the Northern Mandaras (S. Cattini-Muller and G. Muller-Kosack, Mandaras Publishing, London, UK)
  This bibliography is part of a larger website on the northern Mandara mountains of northern Cameroon and northeast Nigeria.
  
  
• Luba-Kasai: a working bibliography. By Valentine Kanyinda Muyumba, Indiana State University. Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online); vol. 9 (2004) -- Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Libraries, 2004.
  
  
• Selected Readings on Darfur, Sudan (+ Children & War) (Compiled by Yuusuf Caruso, Columbia University Libraries)
  A short bibliography of resources (print and online) to accompany a children's art exhibition, "Smallest Witnesses" ...The Crisis in Darfur Through Children's Eyes, co-sponsored by Human Rights Watch.
  
  

• Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere: Swahili Forum. (Online). -- Mainz, Germany: Universität Johannes Gutenburg.
  • The current issue in full text and tables of contents for previous issues.
  • "A bibliography of Swahili literature, linguistics, culture and history." Swahili forum ; 10 (2003). Edited by Rose Marie Beck, Lutz Diegner, Thomas Geider, Uta Reuster-Jahn. (PDF format)
  
  
• "A Bibliography of Christianity in Ethiopia," by John Abbink -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2003. 102 pp. PDF format
  
  
• Bibliographies on the Comoros (Martin & Harriet Ottenheimer et al., Kansas State University)
  
  
• Bibliographies and Resource Guides on Madagascar
  - Short General Bibliography on Madagascar -- includes CDs & videos (Embassy of Madagascar)
  - Extended General Bibliography of Madagascar (Embassy of Madagascar)
  - Links to Malagasy Music (August Schmidhofer and Claude Razanajao, Archives Virtuelles de la Musique Malgache, University of Vienna, Austria)

  Part of a larger collection: Références sur la Musique de Madagascar / References on Malagasy Music (2007): an extensive bibliography compiled by the same authors.
  
  
• "A bibliography of Karamoja, Uganda: books and articles published in English," by Michael D. Quam (1999). Electronic journal of Africana bibliography ; no. 5. -- Iowa City : University of Iowa Libraries, 1999.
  
  
• Bibliography on Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia (1995) (Walter S. Clarke)
  An annotated, extensive bibliography.
  
  
• Bibliography of Research on Uganda Women, 1986-2001 Compiled by Shela Jhaveri and Margaret Snyder. (via Women of Uganda Network)
  An excerpt from a book edited by Joy Kwesiga and Aili Tripp, The new women's movement in Uganda (forthcoming in 2002).
  
  
• Brooklyn College Library: The Robert L. Hess Collections on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa -and- the Continent of Africa (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York)
  Very brief description and contact information. Search the CUNY--Brooklyn College online catalog.
  
  
• Buganda: a select bibliography, with bibliographical essay. (January 1996) (Mikael Karlström ; via Buganda Home Page, Wayne State University, Ohio)
  
  
• Bibliography of the South Asian diaspora and East Africa: an annotated bibliography (2002) Anthroglobe. (Dr. Andrew Mickleburgh, International Culture Studies Department, Gyosie International College, Reading, UK; via Coomsweb, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
  
  
• Darfur Crisis Bibliography -- "Smallest Witnesses...The Crisis in Darfur through Children's Eyes" (2006). (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries, New York)
  
  
• Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: Official Site for the Project (via Institut für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Germany)
  This English language website describes the project, its scope, guidelines, bibliography of reference sources, and related links.
  
  
• Indexkenya.org: Kenya Indexing Project (Nairobi, Kenya)
  This free database provides only an index to topics covered in newspapers published in the period 1994 to 2001. There are no links to online archives, but there is a document delivery option. "Indexkenya.org is an online index of articles published in Nairobi newspapers. The focus of the articles indexed includes culture, law/governance, reproductive health, and other topics about which information is difficult to obtain."
  
  
• Inventaire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits éthiopiens, le 24 avril 2004. Par Anaïs Wion, Marie-Laure Derat et Claire Bosc-Tiessé. (Ménestrel--médiévistes sur l'internet, sources, travaux, références en ligne, Paris) en format PDF
  
  
• Kenya Coast Bibliography (2000), compiled by Jan Hoorweg -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2007.
  "The first version of this bibliography was published as a chapter in the Kenya Coast Handbook and covered the period up to 1996 (Hoorweg & Hekken 2000). The present digital version has been updated until the year 2000 and contains 1479 titles."
  
  
• Maji Maji Bibliography Project (Dr. Jan-Georg Deutsch et al., Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
  A bibliography project compiled by graduate students consisting of an annotated list of German newspaper and journal articles, and some book chapters, by writers and observers of the 1905-1907 'Maji Maji rebellion' in what is now southern Tanzania.
  
  
• Quarterly index to African periodical literature. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya : The Library of Congress, 1991- -- ISSN 1018-1555
  A searchable online index to materials acquired by The Library of Congress since 1991 mostly in eastern and southern Africa, plus since 2002: Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana and Senegal.
  
  
• Swahili acquisitions at Columbia University Libraries, 1979-2006. (Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, Columbia University)
  
  
• Swahili studies bibliography. Compiled by Kelly M. Askew. (via Tanzania Studies Association; webmaster, Tony Waters, California State University, Auburn, California)
  
  
• Tanzania On-line Information Center (United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Organization, Government of Tanzania, and the Economic & Social Research Foundation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  An extensive, searchable archive of documents and reports (1990--) from UN agencies, the World Bank, and the Government of Tanzania on development issues for Tanzania. Abstracts or summaries are viewed in HTML; full texts available in PDF.
  
  
• Tanzania studies bibliography. Compiled by Shobana Shankar. (via Tanzania Studies Association; webmaster, Tony Waters, California State University, Auburn, California)

• Algeria: a bibliography of events since 1991 (Ali Houissa, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York)
  Originally published in 1997; frequently updated.
  
  
• Deir el-Medina Database. Compiled by K. Donker van Heel...[et al.] (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
  This searchable database is a text-only catalog of archaeological remains and related publications. "Deir el-Medina is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian village situated on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes. ...The Deir el-Medina Database is meant to be an intermediate presentation of the ongoing research project A Survey of the New Kingdom Non-literary Texts from Deir el-Medina of Leiden University."
  -- A Systematic Bibliography on Deir el-Medina. Compiled by R.J. Demarée ...[et al.]. -- Leiden, The Netherlands: Leiden University, 2003.
  
  
• "Les frontières et les conflits territoriaux en Afrique" -- bibliographie établie par Ruben Camara (1995) ...en Afrique du Nord et en Afrique de l'Ouest. L'Afrique à Paris 7, Documents: Bibliographies thématiques. (Sedet/Groupe de recherche Afrique noire et Océan indien, Université Paris VII, Paris, France)
  
  
• Theban Mapping Project -- Bibliography (American University at Cairo, Egypt)
  "Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes." Part of a larger site offering an archive of selected articles, with photographs, on research and history of ancient Thebes and the Valley of the Kings; descriptions and illustrations of archaeological sites; a collection of "resources"; plus an online interactive atlas --requires Flash Player 6.
  
  
• Western Sahara: Thematic Bibliography = Bibliographie thématique (ARSO: Association de Soutien à Un Référendum Libre et Régulier au Sahara Occidental, via Switzerland)
  Updated in Jan. 2002. In English or French. 'This is a list of important or original or recent books, publications, scientific articles, reports, photo albums, films, videos, broadcasts, etc. listed by topic.'
  
  

• "Abolitionists abroad: American blacks and the making of modern West Africa" -- Overview and General Bibliography (Prof. Lamin Sanneh, Divinity School, Yale University; via The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
  
  
• Benin City Bibliography by Charles Gore (1999) (via Direct Connection, UK)
  
  
• Bibliographie général sur l'infection à VIH et le sida au Burkina Faso, 1986-1996 (IRD - Institut de recherche pour le développement -- anciennement ORSTOM, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  "Tous les documents peuvent être consultés au Centre de Documentation de l'IRD (Orstom) à Ouagadougou; auprès de l'Association pour l'Association pour la Promotion du Dépistage et du Conseil à Bobo-Dioulasso; ou en France: au Centre Régional d'Information et de Prévention du Sida (CRIPS), d'Ile de France."
  
  
• "Bibliography on the Management of the Environment and Development in the West African Sahel 1985-1999," by Han van Dijk and Elvire Eijkman. (2002) Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online). Vol. 8 (2002) -- Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Libraries, 2002.
  
  
• Burkina Faso: sélection bibliographique (L'Etat de Droit, Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV, France)
  
  
• Bibliography of Dagaare studies (1998) (Dr. Adams B. Bodomo, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  
  
• Bibliography of Gambia-related publications, 1977-1992 (Dr. David Gamble et al.) Excerpts from The Gambia Resource Page (Momodou Camara, DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen)
  
  
• The Dagara and their neighbors (Burkina Faso and Ghana) by Richard Kuba and Carola Lentz (University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) ; vol. 7 (2001).
  
  
• E.W. Blyden: a selected bibliography: Compiled by Eluemuno-Chukuemeka R. Blyden, Columbia University, as part of a larger web site on Blyden.
  
  
• A guide to original sources for precolonial western Africa published in European languages. By J.D. Fage. -- Madison, Wisconsin: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1994. (via University of Wisconsin Libraries, Electronic Facsimile -- Africana Digitization Project)
  
  
• Islam in Nigeria -- Web Dossier and Bibliography. Library, Documentation and Information Department (Afrikastudiecentrum=African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
  
  
• "Kano: a bibliography" by Sani Gwarzo (2002) (Dept. of Library Science, Bayero University, Kano; via KanoOnline.Com)
  A short bibliography on or about the state of Kano in Nigeria, concentrating on unpublished Ph.D. and Masters theses.
  
  
• "Kente cloth: a selected bibliography (February 1994)" by Ruth A. Hodges, Reference Librarian, Howard University (Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, DC)
  A lengthy bibliography on Ghanaian kente and other African textiles.
  
  
• Hommage à Claude Meillassoux par Bernard Schlemmer (2005). H-West Africa, H-Net Discussion Networks. (Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  Un essai avec une longue bibliographie!
  
  
• Nigeria's economic crisis: bibliographic sources to 1996. Compiled by Benjamin F. Soares (1997). PAS working papers ; no. 2. -- Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Program of African Studies, 1997. (51 pp. in PDF format)
  
  
• Santé et population en Sénégambie des origines à 1960: bibliographie annotée. (1989) (Département d'Histoire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal)
  La version électronique (en format PDF) du document original par Charles Becker et René Collignon, edité par l'Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques à Paris, France.
  
  
• "Timbuktu : a bibliography" (2001) by John O. Hunwick. Sudanic Africa: a journal of historical sources. (Online). Vol. 12 (2001). -- Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen, 1990-- (PDF format)
  
  
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Département d'Histoire, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Dakar, Sénégal)
  -- Thèses et Mémoires de la Faculté des Lettres depuis 1962 en format PDF
  
  
  
• West African Arabic Manuscript Database (Prof. Charles C. Stewart and Bruce Stewart Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois)
  A catalog of West African Arabic manuscript collections from Kano--Nigeria at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), from Ségou (Mali) at La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), in Boutilimit and Nouakchott--Mauritania, Timbuctu--Mali, and Niamey--Niger. The database is searchable in English or in Arabic.
  
  

• Annotated bibliography: Literature on equity in health in southern Africa. (Online). (1998) Compiled for Equinet - The Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe.
  Downloadable in PDF Format only. See also, the Equinet Home Page.
  
  
• Bibliographies on the History of Botswana (Department of History, University of Botswana, Gaborone)
  • "Select Bibliography on the History of Botswana" by Neil Parsons (August 1999)
  • "Botswana History: Bibliography for Local Studies" by Neil Parsons (1999 reprint of 1987 edition)
  
  
• Bibliography of criticism of South African literature in English (1996). Compiled by Barbara Richter and Roy Muller. (University of the Free State, Department of English and Classical Culture)
  
  
• Bibliography on "International Conflict Resolution: Southern Africa, South Asia, The Balkans, North Africa & the Middle East." (Compiled by Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University)
  
  
• Children's Literature Research Unit, University of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Select bibliographies of South African and other African children's literature.
  
  
• "Hottentot Venus" bibliography and commentaries (Julie Guard et al., H-Net Humanities Online: H-Women Bibliographies, Michigan State University)
  
  
• "Precolonial metalworking in Africa : a bibliography." By Duncan E. Miller and Tim Maggs. Rondebosch, South Africa: University of Cape Town, 1998. (via Mining History Network, Dr. Roger Burt, University of Exeter, UK)
  Mostly southern and south-central Africa.
  
  
• Quarterly index to African periodical literature. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya : The Library of Congress, 1991- -- ISSN 1018-1555
  A searchable online index to materials acquired by The Library of Congress since 1991 mostly in eastern and southern Africa, plus since 2002: Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana and Senegal.
  
  
• South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy towards Africa by Roger Pfister (Centre for International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland). Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) ; vol. 6 (2000).