Research Guides: *African Studies: Getting Started with African Studies

Topic Overviews

African Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Authoritative essays recommending the best books, articles, and other sources for the topic.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
Essays on topics in African history, with bibliographies.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage from 1450 -
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)
Political science and international relations journal articles.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology journal articles. Publication dates: 1895-present soc index

AfricaBib: Africana Periodical Literature Bibliograpy
A searchable collection of Africana social science titles

African History Through Sources, 1850-1945 by Nancy J. Jacobs
DT352.7 .A34 2014 v.1
Colonial contexts and everyday experiences, c. 1850-1946

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
"Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest" is the title of a collection of sources in this digital archives.
Includes Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, Children's Literature and Childhood, Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest, European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection, Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature, Photography: The World through the Lens, Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform, Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, and Women: Transnational Networks.

Aluka
Struggles for Freedom: South Africa - digitized collection of thousands of documents and other primary sources.

DISA
Freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994.
Historical Papers Research Archive: University of Witwatersrand
Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project
Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996
Translated newspaper articles and radio broadcast transcripts from non-U.S. sources, related to South Africa and apartheid.