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Africa: Libraries
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Africa in The British Library
The British Library offers a rich resource for those interested in the history and cultures of Africa. Material of relevance can be found throughout the collections, whether it be in the form of printed books, newspapers, manuscripts, archives, music,
sound recordings, prints, drawings, photographs or stamps.
Resources on Africa-(U Florida library)
The Resources on Africa page of the U. of Florida library Web serves as a guide to the subject guides and other resources available on the Africana Collection site. Resources are categorized under the general headings of: Applied fields, Arts & humanities, Social sciences, and Sciences in Africa.
Research Guides in African Studies (U Penn Library)
Links are maintained by the staff of the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography (U of Iowa)
The Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography EJAB is a refereed online journal of bibliographies on any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable develop
ment, creative literature, the arts, and the Diaspora. It includes guides, collections and ancillary materials to African archival resources in the United States.
Library of Congress (LOC)
The African section is the focal point of the Library's reference and bibliographic
activities on sub-Saharan Africa. Country studies include Ethiopia, Egypt and
Somalia
Library of the Royal Tropical
Institute
Approximately one third of the book titles in the Library of the
Royal Tropical Institute (the Netherlands) is concerned with Africa. The
library has an on-line catalogue, provides desk-searches, abstract
journals (cd-rom) on agriculture and thematic abstracts and searches on
gender relations.
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African
Studies (NU)
Founded in 1954 to support the research and curricular programs of the
Northwestern University Program of African Studies, the Herskovits Library is today one of
the largest separate library for the study of Africa.
SOAS Library: Africa
The Africa Section of the Library comprises some 50,000 volumes and covers the whole continent in
a variety of European and African languages. Exceptions are works in Arabic on North Africa and on
Egypt in any language (Islamic Near and Middle East Section), in Amharic on Ethiopia (Ancient Near
East, Semitics and Judaica) and in Malagasy on Madagascar (S.E. Asia Section).
Subject Guide to African Studies
(Loyd Mbabu)
Modeled after its arrangement with the Government of Malaysia, the Ohio University Libraries has depository arrangement for the official documents of Botswana (1990), and Swaziland (1991). The Library is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (
CRL) and has access to the large collection of Africa-related materials in CRL.
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