Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert of Libraries Timbuktu
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
The Archival Platform (South Africa)
The African National Congress. (Includes document collections and several e-books)
Historical Papers held by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Cooperative Africana Microform Project makes a variety of primary source material available to researchers via Interlibrary Loan. Included are records of organizations and missionary societies doing work in Africa, military records, pamphlet collections and other ephemera, among other resources.
The CAMP collection guide is available here. You can also search the Center for Research Libraries catalog to find CAMP holdings.
To request microfilm reels from the CAMP collection, use the Rutgers University Library Interlibrary Loan form.
Africa Commons is a platform for discovering African historical and cultural materials held by organizations around the world. It searches across over 250,000 documents from over 2,100 collections and over 600 organizations, including libraries, museums, and archives.
Sources and methods in African history : spoken, written, unearthed / edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2004. ALEX DT19.S68 2004
The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources. 4th ed. Hans Zell, and CecileLomer. ALEX REF DT19.8.Z45
French colonial Africa : a guide to official sources / Gloria D. Westfall. London; New York : Hans Zell Publishers, 1992. ALEX REF DT532.W47 1992
A guide to original sources for precolonial western Africa published in European languages : for the most part in book form / by J.D. Fage. [Madison] : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1994. ALEX REF Z3516.5.F34 1994
Guide to Non-Federal Archives and Manuscripts in the United States Relating to Africa. Vols.1-2. Aloha South, comp. New York: Hans Zell Publishers, 1989. ALEX REF CD3002.S68
The making of modern Africa : a guide to archives / compiled by Chris Cook. New York : Facts on File, c1995. ALEX STACKS Z3508.H5C66 1995
Reference guide to Africa : a bibliography of sources / edited by Alfred Kagan. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005. ALEX REF Z3501.K15 2005
Sub-Saharan Africa : a guide to information sources / W. A. E. Skurnik. Detroit : Gale Research Co., c1977. ALEX STACKS Z3501 .S55
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