Electronic publications for African Studies
AIDS in Africa
A CRS (Congressional Research Service) report from the Library of Congress originally published in 2004 and updated in 2006. PDF file.
ASTI Country Briefs- Sub-Saharan Africa
Full-text country briefs from Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators.
African Development Bank (ADB)
Includes details on projects and publications and selected statistics (full-text).
African Language Materials Archive (ALMA)
The ALMA site contains African language video recordings, documentary video, translation work, and bibliographies.
African Union
Information about the African Union, including full-text documentation, treaties and press releases.
African traditional religion
Variety of full-text articles on all aspects of African traditional religions. Also numerous links. Maintained by Chidi Isizoh.
Annotated Bibliography on the TRC in South Africa
The Library, Information and Documentation Centre (BIDOC) of the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) has systematically collected documentation from and on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa since 1994. This annotated bibliography contains over 1000 sources on the TRC and the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa. PDF file.
CSAC Online Publications
Free full-text access to selected anthropological works mainly concentrating on Africa. Includes Phyllis Kaberry's "Women of the Grassfields", J.S. Eades' "The Yoruba today", Chilver and Kaberry's "History and customs of Ntem", archival sources on the Mambila, papers in honour of Chilver's contributions to Cameroon studies and other selected texts. Hosted by the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Full-text working papers and reports from the Centre.
Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen
Postgraduate Centre for African Studies offering courses and undertaking research in a range of disciplines. Publishes a full text online series of Occasional Papers.
Digital Imaging Project of South Africa
Project aiming to make accessible, through digitisation important South African material that would otherwise be difficult to locate and use. This includes notably some 39 key anti-apartheid periodicals of the 1960-1990 period.
Facing the development challenge in Mozambqiue: an economywide perspective, by Finn Tarp et al
Economy-wide analysis of the best ways to meet Mozambique's development needs.
Folk-literature of the Galla [Oromo] of southern Abyssinia, by Enrico Cerulli
Key texts originally published in the Harvard African Studies series, Vol. III, Varia Africana III, eds. E.A. Hooton and Natica I. Bates (Cambridge, Mass: African Department of Harvard University's Peabody Museum, 1922)
Gender and HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Zimbabwe's national policies and programs on HIV/AIDS/STIs
Report published by the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)
http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions/2006-03-17-2175-Gender_and_HIV_AIDS_an_Analys.htm
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Links to food policy research information, including a collection of African food security data sets, information on IFPRI research and IFPRI publications.
Internet living Swahili dictionary
Part of the Kamusi Project in Yale University's program of African Languages.
Malawi: an atlas of social statistics, by Todd Benson et al.
Contains maps of the demographic characteristics, living conditions, educational and health status, and cultural and economic activities of the people of Malawi. Published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Refugees from Sudan
Publication of the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, part of the US Refugee Program. The Culture Profiles series provides short introductions to the cultural background of refugee populations.
SADC Trade Development Project
Publications and reports on trade reform in Southern Africa.
The Somali Bantu: their history and culture, by Dan van Lehman and Omar Eno
Publication of the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, part of the US Refugee Program. The Culture Profiles series provides short introductions to the cultural background of refugee populations.
UnisaETD: electronic theses and dissertations
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=15350
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Information on aspects of African development, including gender issues with access to a number of full-text, on-line publications, such as the annual Economic Report on Africa, and links to a number of related initiatives and sites.
University of California Press E-Books
Full-text, electronic versions of selected UC Press books in a range of subjects and areas.
Using Google for African Studies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching by Hans M. Zell
A companion to The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources
Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Site contains downloadable working papers dating back to 2002.
http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/Arbeitspapiere.html
