Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914 Africa and the New Imperialism documents the period of rapid colonial expansion by European powers across the African continent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From the accounts of missionaries and European explorers navigating the interior of the continent in the
Category: African Studies
Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory is a documentary film written, produced, and directed by Kola Tubosun, and shot by Tunde Kelani, about the eponymous location at the University of Ibadan where Nigerian writer/playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka lived and worked between 1967 and 1972. The house at
Cahiers d’Études Africaines Cahiers d’études africaines publishes issues made up of previously unpublished articles that reflect cutting-edge research trends, both theoretical and field-based, and the discussions they generate. While interdisciplinary, the journal favors an anthropological and historical approach, and deals with Africa, the West Indies and the Black Americas in all their extensions. – Publisher
Afrique contemporaine Afrique contemporaine is dedicated to the study of African dynamics. It is aimed at all those – researchers, students, journalists, decision-makers, members of civil society or simple observers – interested in the continent in all its diversity. – Publisher
al-Manẓūmah / المنظومة Dar al-Manẓūmah provides access to a series of databases with full-text content of Arabic scientific conferences, dissertations, and academic journals from 1921 to present. This database is a comprehensive online full text database for Arabic scholarly output. It provides access to close-to one million Arabic items (1/3 in abstract), including 65K items
African Newspapers: The British Library Collection African Newspapers: The British Library Collection features nearly 60 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901. Originally archived by the British Library—the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the largest and most respected libraries in the world—these rare historical documents are now available for the
Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953 The late nineteenth century ‘Scramble for Africa’ saw European colonial powers carve up the African continent between themselves. The United Kingdom controlled the largest portion of territory, with its Colonial Regulations requiring an ‘Annual Blue Book’ to be submitted from each colony to the British Colonial Office. The Blue
Sierra Leone Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1893-1961 This collection contains annual reports compiled by the British colonial government in Sierra Leone. The documents pre-date the establishment of the Sierra Leone Protectorate in 1896, covering the period up to the creation of an independent Sierra Leone state in 1961. The Annual Departmental Reports provide
Colonial Law in Africa, 1808-1919 Originally known as the ‘Government Gazettes’, each item contains the colonial laws for the year they were published. The legal records also include property for sale, probate records and bankruptcy notices. This is the first part of the three part series ‘Colonial Law in Africa’. These items cover the Napoleonic
