Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with in-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent. Their track record owes much to a comprehensive network of local correspondents, and the connections built up throughout Africa since they started publishing back in 1960. Why confidential ? This continent-wide, on-the-ground coverage enables them to identify and monitor upcoming issues long before they are picked up by the general media and analyse their real significance for the readers of Africa Confidential. Whats more, all their contributors are strictly anonymous, a principle that was established from the outset in 1960 to ensure writers personal safety in the turbulent, early years of post-colonial African independence. Hence the newsletter's title. None of Africa Confidential's commentary, news and analysis is syndicated to international news services, re-sold to web-based information aggregators like Reuters or LexisNexis, or aggregated on free sites like Google News. The news and analysis in Africa Confidential is original, timely, and insightful - actionable intelligence not available from any other media source. Thats why, more than 50 years after its founding, Africa Confidential remains at the forefront of reporting on the continents key political, economic and security developments.
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Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies, Africa-Wide NiPAD contains over 2 million records with full-text links on all aspects of Africa. Topics covered include politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism and much more. Sources include books, periodicals and magazines articles, radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, reports, theses and music recordings and much more.
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African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1800-1925, offers unmatched coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the continent during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Algeria to Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, this unique resource chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items. Together, African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, provide news and perspectives from a wide range of counties and cultures during a time of sweeping change.

African Writers Series covers the whole historical range of modern African fiction, from early pioneering novels by black African authors to later masterpieces. The collection contains the full text of 66 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including: Sol Plaatje's Mhudi (1930 published in the AWS in 1978) Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy (1946 AWS 1963) Achebe's Things Fall Apart (AWS No. 1, 1962) Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969) Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974), Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger (1978), and the last two volumes published in the print series: Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes and Daniel Mengara's Mema (both October 2003). In addition to prose fiction, the collection includes some of the most important works of African poetry, including: Christopher Okigbo's Labyrinths (1976) Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino which has been described as the most influential African poem of the 1960s the works of Dennis Brutus, Taban lo Liyong and Jack Mapanje, and Mazisi Kunene's epic poem on the rise of the Zulu empire, Emperor Shaka the Great (1979). Full details of the works currently included in the collection are given in the bibliography . A wide geographic range is also represented: most of the works in the Series come from English-speaking countries in Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, but there are also a number of volumes translated from French, Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili, Acoli, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Luganda and Arabic.

Contains the full text of over 1000 stories daily in English and French from over 125 African news organizations. The searchable archive has over 900,000 articles from newspapers, news agencies and publications all over the African continent.
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Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980. The launch of apartheid policies by the National Party in 1948 heralded 40 years of legally entrenched white dominance over South African politics, society and business. Punitive restrictions placed on travel, education, work and political activism instigated the formation of organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), saw support increase for the Communist Party and fuelled the growth of international anti-apartheid organisations. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africas apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation. This resource is in three sections: 1948-1966, 1967-1975 and 1976-1980. The three parts of Apartheid South Africa cover the period between 1948 and 1980 and explore the inception and implementation of apartheid by Daniel Malan, the strengthening of policies by Hendrik Verwoerd and the eventual destabilisation of the system under P. W. Botha. The material contained within each part is hugely varied, and includes: British diplomatic dispatches between London and Pretoria and between London and British posts across Africa Biographies of prominent political figures, activists, detainees and victims of apartheid Cuttings, transcriptions and translations of press reports, including many from Afrikaans newspapers Reports detailing visits to South Africa from UK and US politicians and vice versa Letters and telegrams from government departments and officials and from private individuals Minutes of ministerial

Arabic Literature of Africa Online (ALAO) is a bio-bibliography on the Arabic manuscript tradition in the African continent, which continued well into the 20th century CE. It offers authoritative information about African authors, the texts they wrote in Arabic, the manuscripts in which these texts are found, and the locations of these manuscripts, together with bibliographical references to the literature. Arabic Literature of Africa Online complements Brockelmanns Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) and is an indispensable reference work for students of Islamic cultures in Africa and of Islamic manuscripts in general.

British Online Archives goal is to provide students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. These records are organized thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine.
Collections pertaining to Africa include

• Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953
• Gambia under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1881-1966
• Ghana and Togo under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1843-1957
• Ghana in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1886-1951
• Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700-1850
• Kenya under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1964
• Malawi under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports 1907-1967
• Nigeria and Cameroon under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1887-1962
• Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995
• Scottish Trade with Africa and the West Indies in the Early 18th Century, 1694-1709
• Sierra Leone under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports
• Tanzania and Malawi in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1857-1965
• South Africa in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1819-1900
• Uganda under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1903-1961
• Zimbabwe under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1897-1980

The Confidential Print series, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since around 1820, is one of the most important series produced by the British Government (The National Archives, Kew). It originated out of a need for the Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one-page letters or telegrams others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked Confidential Print were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad. The documents in Confidential Print: Africa cover the whole of the modern period of European colonization of the African continent, from coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italys defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. The resource also features 300 color maps, a number of them previously separated from their parent files at The National Archives but cross-referenced with those files here for ease of scholarly use.