African Studies Resources

This is a selection of specialized resources relating to sub-Saharan Africa. Resources pertaining to slavery in the Americas and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade are listed in the separate guide to African-American Studies Resources. Resources pertaining to northern Africa are included in the guide to Middle Eastern Studies Resources.

Indexes & Databases

online | print & CDROM

Online Indexes

Anthropology Plus (via FirstSearch)

Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, September 26 2007. (late 19th century -)

CountryWatch | includes Full Text

Contains detailed textual, data and graphic information for countries and regions. Topics include: country overviews, political history and conditions, economic status, investment overviews, social background, and environmental situation and issues.

Historical Abstracts | includes Full Text

Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

Religion Index - ATLA | includes Full Text

The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. The file contains citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). (1949-)

Print & CDROM Indexes

African Studies (CDROM)

Holdings:  1998/Mar. 2003

Call Number:  DT1 .A22925  REFERENCE DESK

Text Collections

online | print & CDROM

Online Text Collections

Digital Dissertations and Theses from ProQuest/UMI

A comprehensive source for doctoral dissertations from the United States and Canada. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. A limited number of master's theses is also included. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

Print & CDROM Text Collections

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Series G: Africa.

Call Number:  See Description  STACKS

Part I: 1848-1914: JX632 .B7416; Part II: 1914-1939: JX632 .B769; Part III: 1940-1945: JX632 .B8316; Part IV: 1946-1950: JX632 .B837

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report

Call Number:  DT1945 .S56  STACKS

Five print volumes in Stacks. One CDROM located at RESERVE under the same call number.

Microform Sets

Church Missionary Society Archive

Call Number:  BV 2500.C48A3  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with general reel guide

Guide:  Guides for each section. Online information at http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/church_missionary_society_archive_general/editorial%20introduction%20by%20rosemary%20keen.aspx

Sec.1 East Asia, Sec.2 Missions to Women, Sec. 3 Central Records, Sec. IV Africa, Sec. V The Americas, Sec. VI Asia

Colonial Discourses

Call Number:  DA 16.8.C65  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with general reel guide in contents

Guide:  Series 1,pt.1 only; Online guide at http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/colonial_discourses_series_one/index.aspx

Series One: Women, travel, and empire, 1660-1914. Part 1: Early travel accounts by women and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia, and Canada. Parts 2 & 3: Women and the Orient. Series Two: Imperial adventurers and explorers. Part 1: Papers of Sir Richard Burton. Series Three: Colonial Fiction, 1650-1914. Part 1: Fiction from India.

Government Publications Relating to Kenya and the East Africa High Commission, 1897-1963

Call Number:  JQ2945 .A58 G68  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Printed Guide. Online guide at http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R96995.pdf

Records of the American Committee on Africa

Call Number:  DT38 .R43  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Printed Guide; Online information at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aaas/AmericanCommitteeAfrica.asp

pt.1: ACOA Executive Committee minutes and National Office memoranda, 1952-1975; pt.2: Correspondence and subject files on South Africa, 1952-1985.

Newspapers

Fondren Library Holdings:
Microforms located in Government Publications (Fondren basement)
Current issues located in Current Periodicals Room

Reference Works

Dictionary of African Mythology. Harold Scheub. Oxford University Press: 2000.

Available Online

Call Number:  BL2400 .S24 2000    STACKS

Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions. Stephen D. Glazier. Routledge: 2001.

Call Number:  BL2462.5 .E53   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David Levinson. G.K. Hall: 1991-1996.

Call Number:  GN307 .E53   REFERENCE

v.1 North America; v.2 Oceania; v.3 South Asia; v.4 Europe (Central, Western, and Southeastern Europe); v.5 East and Southeast Asia; v.6 Russia and Eurasia, China; v.7 South America; v.8 Middle America and the Caribbean; v.9 Africa and the Middle East; v.10 Indexes

Historic World Leaders. Anne Commire. Gale: 1994.

Call Number:  CT104 .H57   REFERENCE

v.1 Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific; v.2-3 Europe; v.4-5 North & South America

International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages

IEMA Online is a supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters online, providing original articles that cover the time period 300-1500 CE, in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Lexikon des Mittelalters online

The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Users can perform automatic bibliographic searches in the International Medieval Bibliography Online.