Africa
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A library research guide for identifying resources for the history of Africa.
Historical Newspapers
- African Newspapers, 1800-1922 (Readex)More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Includes Liberian Recorder starting in 1902.
- World Newspaper ArchiveA fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories. Subscription includes America's Historical Newspapers and African Newspapers collections.
CRL
JHU is now a member institution of the Center for Research Libraries. You will find that your ability to get access to digitized newspapers through ILL will be greatly expanded, in addition to foreign dissertations. A full list of topic guides can be found on the CRL website, but I think the expansion of African materials is particularly important.
- Global Press Archive: East African NewspapersThe East African Newspapers collection provides insight into this region during this critical time, featuring key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s. The collection includes over 800,000 pages total from three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda).
- Global Press Archive: Middle Eastern and North African NewspapersResearchers will find a wealth of unique content from the Middle East and North Africa, much of which has never been digitized or available as open access material. Content in the Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French. The collection comprises mostly out-of-copyright, orphaned content. CRL members and subscribing institutions also receive access to five in-copyright titles from the region: al-Akhbār (الاخبار, Lebanon, 2006-2019), al-Dustūr (الدستور, Jordan, 1967-2000), al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية, Egypt, 1962-1986), al-Riyāḍ (الرياض, Saudi Arabia, 1972-1996), and Filasṭīn (فلسطين, Israel/Palestine, 1956-1967).