African Countries - Background Sources

Africa south of the Sahara.
London, Europa Publications
1971-2012
Latest year in Information Center Ready Reference DT352 .A34 (next to the Information Desk). Older years in the Stacks

Africa contemporary record; annual survey and documents
1968/69 – 2001/2002
Latest year 2001/2001 in Information Center DT1 .A212 (stack area behind the newspapers). Older years in the Stacks

Africa Research Bulletin 1964 -
Economic, financial, and technical series
Political, social, and cultural series
Helps you find the dates of events, a year’s facts about a country. Can search by country. Has annual indexes
Online and print editions.

Africa Yearbook Online (Brill). 2004-2011
Covers politics, foreign affairs, socio-economic developments.
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/africa-yearbook-online

Encyclopedia of Africa / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
2 volumes
Information Center DT3 .E53 2010 (stack area behind the newspapers)

New encyclopedia of Africa / John Middleton, editor in chief ; Joseph C. Miller, editor.
Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, c2008.
5 v.
Information Center DT2 .N48 2008 (stack area behind the newspapers)

Historical Dictionaries of Africa
Information Center (stack area behind the newspapers) ; some countries have online editions.

Each African country has its own volume. A few are online – Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (name changes, maps, chronology, history, land & people, Historical Dictionary of Eritrea. May need to download the ebrary plugin on your own computer.

Last modified: January 28, 2013