On 31 March 2013, the Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (1991-2011) merged with the AfricaBib Africana Periodical Literature database (1974- ). This merger is significant for African Studies as it will allow researchers to consult one significantly enhanced database instead of two separate and smaller databases. The print and electronic journals and periodicals indexed in AfricaBib represent Africana materials published in over 22 nations within North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Some 51,000 QIAPL citations from 750 journals from 29 Sub-Saharan African countries have been added to the ASCs AfricaBib database, which now has almost 200,000 entries. Wherever possible, citations include links to the full text of an article to make elusive articles with original African content easier to access.

The goal of WorldMap is to lower barriers for scholars who wish to visualize, analyze, organize, and publish mapped information. AfricaMap was the first application created using the WorldMap platform, and is still one of the richest in content. There are now thousands of additional maps (of Africa and the African diasporas as well as on other subjects and geographies) created by scholars at Harvard and around the world. The system allows users to upload their own data and create sophisticated interactive maps in the cloud to support research and teaching. The site includes environmental data sets, historical maps, governance data sets, and linguistic distribution layers, along with administrative divisions, farms, schools, and other related information.

The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitization project of full-text journal articles published in Africa in order to provide access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africas research and cultural heritage. Subjects included cover the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

AJOL is the world's largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, providing free hosting for over 380 peer-reviewed journals from 29 African countries, using the internet and open source software. AJOL's partner journals cover the full range of academic disciplines with particularly strong sections on health and agriculture. Access to full-text articles of open access journals is free, while access to other published materials is fee-based all abstracts, however, are free.

The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource. Collections include:

• Everyday Islam in Kumas (video interviews with Muslim men and women from Kumasi, Ghana)
• Ajami in the Senegambia (handwritten ajami manuscripts produced by West African scholars)
• Saint-Louis: Religious Pluralism in the Heart of Senegal (handwritten texts, images and audio interviews about the interactions of Saint Louis's French Catholic communities, Muslim majority, the French administration, and Freemasons in the late 19th and 20th centuries)
• West African Online Digital Library (photographs, audio interviews, and documents)
• Africa Past & Present (podcast about history, culture, and politics in African diaspora)
• African e-Journals Project (full-text articles of 11 humanities and social science journals)
• Exploring Africa (curriculum resource for middle and high school)
• South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy (multimedia online curriculum)
• Community Video Education Trust (over 90 hours of video documenting political activities from 1980s and 1990s South Africa)
• African Activist Archive (multimedia historical materials and interviews with U.S. activists)
• American Black Journal (40-year television show on Detroit Public Television)
• South African Film and Video Project (moving images from years of apartheid struggle)
• African Media Program (searchable database of films and videos about Africa).

AOSIS OpenJournals is a commercial publisher of peer-reviewed scholarly journals, covering a wide range of academic disciplines. It is a division of African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd, a private company incorporated in South Africa, founded in 1999, with its roots in online continuing professional development (CPD) for several professions. AOSIS OpenJournals provides access to journals in a wide range of topics, including disability, medicine, healthcare, theology, dentistry, veterinary medicine, engineering, literacy, environmental studies, and information management.

The Black Press Research Collective (BPRC) is an interdisciplinary group of scholars committed to generating digital scholarship about the historical and contemporary role of black newspapers in Africa and the African Diasporas. Although the BPRC has made a conscious effort to include the African continent in theirunderstanding of Diaspora, the BPRC focuses its scholarship on newspapers published or written by individuals living outside of Africa who have been dispersed, either through choice or through force, and now live elsewhere. The BPRC strives to avoid homogenizing newspapers of the Diaspora but to explore how they operate in specific periods and settings. At the same time, the BPRC is interested in generating new methodologies that explore the concept of an African Diasporic press in the formation of global communities of people of African descent.

The BPRC also serves as a repository/archive for the storage, analysis, digitization and distribution of material on the study of a global black press, and it provides documentation of materials about black newspapers that are difficult to identify and locate with more traditional research methodology. Finally, BPRC is dedicated to encouraging and training new generations of scholars in the study of black newspapers and their significance in African Diasporic communities.

Because of the distinctive nature and role of newspapers in the Diaspora, the Collectives work primarily focuses on these publications but does offer some resources and scholarship on magazines. BPRC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

The National Statistical Council (NSC) of Burkina Faso is responsible for providing general guidelines for statistical policy of the nation. This website provides statistics on topics such as: Economics, Education, Health, Demographics, Tourism and more.

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 (BOA) is one of the United Kingdom’s leading academic publishers. BOA's goal is to provide students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with access to unique collections of primary source documents. To this end, BOA hosts over 4 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine. Currently, collections accessible through the Library of Congress include:

• America in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1635-1928
• American Records in the House of Lords Archive, 1621-1917
• The American Revolution from a British Perspective, 1763-1783
• American Slave Trade Records and Other Papers of the Tarleton Family, 1678-1838
• Antigua, Slavery and Emancipation in the Records of a Sugar Plantation, 1689-1907
• Atheism and Anti-War Sentiments in the Bradlaugh Family, 1833-1948
• Australia in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1808-1967
• BBC Handbooks, Annual Reports and Accounts, 1927-2002
• BBC Listener Research Department Reports, 1937-c.1950
• "Bray Schools" in Canada, America and the Bahamas, 1645-1900
• Bristol Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1770-1917
• British Army Lists of Officers, 1740-1784
• British Communism in Campaigns and Events, 1947-1991
• British Diplomacy from the Unification of Germany to the Spanish Civil War, 1863-1939
• British Diplomacy with America and Ireland, an Ambassador's Letters, 1909-1962
• British Labour Party Papers, 1906-1969
• British Labour Party Papers, 1968-1994
• British Parliamentary History, 1102-1803
• The British Raj: Resistance and Reform in India, 1879-1910
• The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933-1951
• British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
• Canada in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1722-1952
• Caribbean Colonial Statistics from the British Empire, 1824-1950
• The Church of England and Social Change in Manchester, 1635-1928
• The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Partition of the Middle East, 1879-1919
• Colonial Africa in Official Statistics, 1821-1953
• Colonial Missionaries' Papers from America and the West Indies, 1701-1870
• Colonial Women Missionaries of the Committee for Women's Work, 1861-1967
• Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986
• Conscientious Objection During World War 1
• Debate and Division on the British Left, 1917-1964
• Development of Canadian Governance and Foreign Policy, 1883-1904
• The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806-1814
• The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774
• Essays and Dissertations of the Scottish Royal Medical Society, 1751-1970
• Gambia under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1881-1966
• Gender, Feminism, and the British Left, 1944-1991
• Ghana and Togo under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1843-1957
• Ghana in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1886-1951
• Hitler's Army, Nazi Germany at War and the Nuremburg Trials, 1925-1956
• Independent Labour Party Records, 1893-1960
• Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770-1931
• Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy, 1929-1933
• Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700-1850
• The Industrial Revolution: Technological Innovation in the Textile Industry, 1672-1929
• International Relations between Britain and America, 1796-1848
• Kenya under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1964
• Life on the Front Line: Diaries, News, and Letters from the First World War, 1914-1919
• Life under Nazi Rule: Reports by Anti-Fascists in Occupied Europe, 1933-1945
• Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 - Part 1 through Part 4
• Liverpool through Time: From Slavery to the Industrial Revolution, 1766-1900
• Malawi under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports 1907-1967
• Marxist History and Historians in the 20th Century
• Military Tactics and the Rise of Modern Warfare, 1881-1935
• New Zealand & Polynesian Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1838-1958
• Nigeria and Cameroon under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1887-1962
• Power and Profit: British Colonial Trade in America and the Caribbean, 1678-1825
• Prison Ship Records from the War of 1812
• Records from Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1559-1932
• Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995
• Science and Marxism, 1956-1985
• Scottish Nationalist Leaflets, 1844-1973
• Scottish Trade with Africa and the West Indies in the Early 18th Century, 1694-1709
• Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement, 1902-1933
• Sierra Leone under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1893-1961
• Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754-1792
• Slave Trading Records from William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797
• Slavery, Exploitation and Trade in the West Indies, 1759-1832
• Slavery in Jamaica, Records from a Family of Slave Owners, 1686-1860
• Slavery through Time: From Enslavers to Abolitionists, 1675-1865
• South Africa in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1819-1900
• South American Missionaries' Records, 1844-1919
• Tanzania and Malawi in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1857-1965
• "Thou Shalt Not Kill": Missionaries in Asia during the World Wars, 1914-1946
• Trade Unionism and the Chartist Movement, 1833-1910
• Trade Unions in Crisis: the 1961 ETU Ballot-Rigging Scandal
• Transatlantic Civil Society in Periodicals, 1768-1925
• Uganda under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1903-1961
• Walt Whitman and his Fellowhip of Supporters in Bolton, 1891-1913
• Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Periodicals, 1744-1960
• The West Indies in Records from Colonial Missionaires, 1704-1950
• World News in Indian Newspapers, 1782-1908
• 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.