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Workshop for subject librarians in African Studies

The FID African Studies is organising a workshop for librarians, together with the GIGA in Hamburg and the VDB Commission for Subject Librarians
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Editions Oubangui

Thanks to a special collaboration, we have received new books by the publisher Editions Oubangui.
The Jahn Library for African Literatures

The Jahn Library for African Literatures

The Jahn Library is one of the earliest and most comprehensive research facilities for African literatures in Europe and beyond.
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The African Music Archive

The African Music Archive based at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz currently holds around 18,000 sound recordings in various formats (including shellac and vinyl records, audio and video cass…
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Le Salon du livre africain de Paris

Over 100 publishers and writers from all over the continent attended the third edition of the Paris African Book Fair (Salon du livre africain de Paris).
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The German Research Foundation funds the extension of the SIS African Studies

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved substantial funding for the further expansion of the Specialised Information Service (SIS) for African Studies and has awarded the Johann Christian S…
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The Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research

The Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research is a research institute under the aegis of UNESCO, based in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
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AfricArxiv

AfricArxiv is a digital archive for African research.
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Arewa House

Arewa House is the center for historical documentation and research of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
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Over 240 African Studies Open Access Journals

This list is curated courtesy of the library of the African Studies Centre Leiden.
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How to avoid epistemicide

Would you like to read and cite more works by Africa-based scholars? The SIS African Studies focuses on the acquisition of literature published on the African continent.
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Commemorative Fabrics from Africa

The collection on Commemorative Fabrics from Africa is curated by Emilie Songolo and part of the digital collections at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Library.
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Early Yorùbá books at the British Library

Digitised early publications (1843-1879) in Yorùbá at the British Library.
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AWA: An online archive of African magazines

The digitised version of one of the earliest independent African women’s magazines.
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Archive of Malian Photography

The Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali.