Contains full-text 19th and 20th-century African newspapers, especially featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
AODL provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources.
Archives Unbound includes digitized manuscripts, printed books and periodicals, and government documents largely sourced from the U.S. National Archives and U.K. National Archives. Tulane has access to several collections focused on 20th-century Africa: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa, 1910-1929; French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1930; Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939; Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1929; Liberation Movement in Africa and African America; Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1918-1935; King and the People in Morocco, 1950-1959; and Global Missions and Theology.
Includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. The documents in Confidential Print: Africa begin with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa. They then follow the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. Together they cover the whole of the modern period of European colonisation of the continent from the British Government’s perspective.
This resource brings together a wide range of primary source materials for the study of European empire, its theories, practices and consequences, dating from the late fifteenth century onwards. The documents in this collection have been sourced from archives and libraries based in the UK, North America and Australia. The majority of documents are from a colonial and thus Western and Eurocentric perspective, and mainly relate to the history of the British Empire. Geographic coverage spans Africa, Australasia, Central America and the Caribbean, East Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, and South East Asia.
Multimedia collection that covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.
The open access digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Offers all types of media: print (monographs, periodicals and press) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound recordings, graphic material, maps and plans. The gateway to digital collections in French.
The Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University is the largest separate Africana collection in the U.S. Its digitized collections include: 16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa; Africa Embracing Obama; E.H Duckworth Photograph Collection (Nigeria); Depictions of Africa in French Humour Magazines; Ifeoma Onyefulu: Photographs; Vernon McKay Photographs; Photographs of Zanzibar; Africana Posters; and the Winterton Collection of East African Photographs.
This database offers full page and article image scans with searchable full text of issues of Le Monde from 1944-2000. Select "Browse Issues" from the menu to peruse content by date.
Explore the archaeology, history and culture of Africa through its heritage sites and landscapes. Includes digitized maps, photographs, manuscripts, and printed texts. Formerly known as Aluka: African Cultural Heritage Sites & Landscapes.
Digitized 20th-century newspapers from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Most titles are Arabic-language, with some in French (Algeria, Morocco) and English (Iraq, Morocco).
Founded in 1981, the Daily Observer is Liberia’s best-known, independent, national newspaper. The Daily Observer is notable for its coverage of the modern history of Liberia—including the Liberian Civil War and through its current phase of development.
Comprising over 35,000 pages, the Daily Observer Digital Archive (DODA) is a comprehensive archive of this title—published in English.
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides primary sources, scholarly studies, images, and video on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including the Congo.
East African Newspapers, part of the Global Press Archive, includes over 800,000 pages from three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda). Coverage spans 1940s to the early 2000s.
The Archives of Sexuality & Gender includes manuscripts, articles, and ephemera digitized from Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. The sub-collections from this archive included in the database are: African Women's Life History Project, on female same-sex practices; Balancing Act: South African Gay & Lesbian Youth Speak Out; LEGATRA (Zambia) Collection: Alliance for the Defense of Lesbians, Gays and Transgender Persons' Basic Human Rights in Zambia; Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG); Simon Nkoli Collection, 1977 to 1998; Sistahs Kopanang; Sodomy Trials, Cape Archives, 1828 to 1961; and Swaziland Collection, 1997.
Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980. This resource is in three sections: Section I (1948-1966), Section II (1967-1975), and Section III (1976-1980).
DISA is a 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. It includes a wide variety of source types, from articles and books to postcards, magazines and journals, interviews, photographs, pamphlets, and more.
ProQuest, in partnership with The National Security Archive, produce the Digital National Security Archive, the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, with access to more than 150,000 indexed, declassified government documents. The DNSA is comprised of many database collections which can be searched individually or together. It has one Africa-centered module: "South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989."
The resource comprises the following databases; Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973–1990; The Afghanistan War and the United States, 1998-2017; Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy; The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962; Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990; China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998; CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010; CIA Family Jewels Indexed; Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010; The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update; The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection, From Bay of Pigs to Nuclear Brink; Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999; Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden; El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984; El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994; Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1980; The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983–1988; Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994; Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976, 1877-1992, and Part III, 1961-2000; The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977; The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977; Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013; The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009; Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990; Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000; The Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965–1986; Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton; Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush; South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989; The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991; Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004; Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002; U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015; U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996; U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action; The U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947–1989; The U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11; U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq; U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991; U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968; U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1945–1991; U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I (1954-1968) and Part II: (1969-1975); U.S. Policy toward Iran: From the Revolution to the Nuclear Accord, 1978-2015; and The United States and the Two Koreas, Part 1 (1969-2000) and Part II (1969-2010).
The South African History Archive (SAHA) is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and contemporary struggles for justice through archival practices and outreach, and the utilization of access to information laws. SAHA's collections are largely made up of documents, posters, photographs, ephemera and oral histories. While the majority of SAHA's collections are paper-based and can only be consulted in Johannesburg, a small range of digitized material can be accessed on this website by limiting your search to "Digitised Items in the Collections." Note that you have to register for a free account to gain access.
The official website of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)--a court-like restorative justice body set up after the end of apartheid in 1996--includes transcripts of amnesty and special hearings, as well as other primary and secondary source materials.
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region. Formerly known as Aluka: Struggles for Freedom.
The African Activist Archive preserves and makes available online records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.The website includes a growing archive of historical materials--pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings--that bear witness to social movements addressing every African country. Includes primary sources on Mozambique and Zimbabwean resistance movements.
The collection consists of rare works of poetry, organizational records, print publications, over one hundred articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, a small amount of personal correspondence, and oral histories.
Contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic. Using the personal details of 91,491 Africans liberated by International Courts of Mixed Commission and British Vice Admiralty Courts, this resource makes possible new geographic, ethnic, and linguistic data on peoples captured in Africa and pulled into the slave trade.
Primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world. Coverage of topics such as the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today.
Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in the Caribbean, Latin America, and other regions. Consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps published in the U.S., U.K., England, the Netherlands, Haiti, and Spain. The majority of sources are in English, with a good strong share of French and some Spanish.
Information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million.
