Primary African Studies News Sources

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Important African Studies News Sources

Africa News / AllAfrica (English & French) via LexisNexis Academic
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Supplemental URLs
    AllAfrica.com (English & French) via LexisNexis Academic

AfricaOnline.com
News gathered through regional affiliates and major newswires....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

AFRINUL
Also Known as: Cooperative African Newspapers Project: African Newspapers Union List
Sub-Saharan African newspaper holdings in libraries worldwide in all formats and all languages....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Agence France Presse
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allAfrica.com
Searchable access to bulletins from PANA, the Pan-African News Agency, formerly overseen by the OAU, and Africa-based news services....   [more]
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Aluka: Struggles for freedom in Southern Africa
Also Known as: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa Collection, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
Online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa, built collaboratively. Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa is available at Penn. Other collections not available at Penn: Afri...   [more]

ANB-BIA
Also Known as: African News Bulletin-Bulletin d'Information Africaine
Weekly news summaries. Greatest strength is its online backfile from October 1996 (not searchable)....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

BBC Monitoring: International Reports (via LexisNexis Academic)
Fulltext searchable coverage, 1979-present...   [more]

FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

IRINnews.org
Also Known as: Integrated Regional Information Networks
UN-sponsored news service focusing on regions and countries worldwide undergoing humanitarian emergencies or crises....   [more]
Holdings: 1998-present
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    IRIN Film and TV

Le Monde diplomatique
- from publisher website
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Holdings: 1954-
Supplemental URLs
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News Services From Around Africa
Maintained by UN Economic Commission for Africa, a handy compilation of hyperlinks to pan-African news services and to news sources in individual African countries....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Pambazuka News
Weekly news monitor on civil society and progressive social change in Africa. Provides newsfeeds....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

PressReader
Also Known as: Newspapers Direct Library PressDisplay , newspaper direct (NewspaperDirect)
Fulltext access to more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60+ languages....   [more]

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Weekly China Briefing
Tracks Chinese business news with a special focus on China and Africa. Complied by Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

Related African Studies News Sources

Facts on File
Also Known as: World News Digest @ Facts.com , World News Digest
Full-text of the Facts on File World News Digest from 1980 forward. World News Archive from 1940-79 and Reuters News for the last two weeks. facts.com...   [more]
Holdings: January 1980-present. Weekly updates. Hourly newsfeeds.
Supplemental URLs
    Alternate URL

Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
Also Known as: Gale NewsVault
Cross searches all Gale newspaper archives including 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals, Economist Historical Archives, Times ...   [more]