African Studies: Guide

This full text database provides access unpublished or scarcely distributed written documents about economic, social and political context for the region.

References to books, journal articles and reviews, covering anthropology, political science, sociology and economics since 1981.

PAIS International contains references to publications on public management/public policy, international politics and adjacent topics from more than 120 countries.

This online bibliography provides access to a number of current discipline-specific bibliographies focusing on the political, economic and social development in Africa south of Sahara. Each theme includes annotated references both in German and English. Includes links to freely available publications on the web. Published by German Institute of Global and Area Studies - GIGA since 2000.

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The little data book on Africa 2012/13 is a pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2012/13.

Database of English and French scholarly journals with an emphasis on health, education and climate change. Includes both open access and subscription-based journals.

This quarterly bilingual journal published both in French and in English is a social science journal whose major focus is on issues which are central to the development of society. Includes comparative analysis of developing world issues.

This site is an international newspaper portal indexed by country and regions; directory for African Newspapers.

The centre publishes a number of publication series, which can be downloaded free or ordered through payment by mail on the website.

At the Danish Institute for International Studies website you can download publications without any fee on international issues, including specific reports and papers on Africa.

Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, publishes on the basis of lectures and "Africa Seminars" papers, which can be downloaded for free on the website.

Through the Nordic Africa Institute's website, it is possible to download freely available publications related to a wide range of subject areas such as policy, development, conflict resolution, human rights, migration studies, cultural studies etc.

This site provides free access to lectures and talks by academic experts held at the University of Oxford, which is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa.

Centre of African Studies, within SOAS in London, is one of the largest university centers outside Africa with interdisciplinary expertise directed at the entire African continent within the disciplines of law, political science, economics, especially development economics, humanities and language studies. The Centre's materials can be searched in an integrated online system that includes all SOAS's library collections covering Africa, Middle East Studies and Asia.