Current African newspapers are in Green Library, the Information Center area, first floor.

Find records for the latest issues. Go to the Newspaper Registration site and click on Newspapers. Put in the paper's name or the country name in the Search box. The very latest issues are held in the Green Library Information Center Newspaper section (and are not listed in Socrates).

Some African newspapers are treated like Magazines / Jounals (for example Namibia Economist) and current issues will be in the Current Periodicals section, Information Center, first floor, Green Library.

FOR OLDER ISSUES, check all three sources.

1. SOCRATES, Stanford’s online catalog. Use the Combined Search. For the Everything line, put in the Country; then put in the newspaper title in the Periodical Title line. If you don't know the title, you can sometimes get results (though not always complete) by putting in the Everything line, the country; on the Subject line, put in newspapers. (You get fuller results than just putting newspapers <country> such as newspapers ghana in the Subject line).

2. the Hoover Newspaper Catalog may have titles not found through Socrates. Some newspaper on film may only be listed in the Hoover Newspaper Catalog. (Hoover is Open M-F, 8-5)

3. see the spreadsheet list of newspapers in SAL-Newark. Holdings information may not be accurate. If you find a title of interest, look it up in Socrates.

Titles not listed as Air Mail come by Sea Mail and may be 3-6 months old.

Titles designated Microfilm Only are only on microfilm and will also be several months old.

For newspapers on the web, see Africa South of the Sahara - Newspapers by Country

Newspapers Through Interlibrary Loan.

See the CAMP/CRL catalog and AFRINUL (click on the link African Newspapers Union List. AFRINUL has very limited holdings however.)

To request subscriptions to new titles, please contact

Karen Fung, African Collection, Green Library.

BENIN

BOTSWANA

BURUNDI

CAMEROUN

CAMEROUN TRIBUNE, Yaounde

MESSAGER

POST, Buea

CHAD

DJIBOUTI

ETHIOPIA

GAMBIA

GHANA

GUINEA

KENYA

MALAWI

MAURITIUS

NAMIBIA

NIGERIA

SENEGAL

SEYCHELLES

SOUTH AFRICA

SUDAN

SUDAN MIRROR, Nairobi

TANZANIA

UGANDA

ZAMBIA

ZIMBABWE

Current News on the WEB

• Global Newsbank (Stanford users only). 1996 onwards. Sprinkling of African newspaper articles (from the newspapers' web sites).
• LexisNexis (Stanford users only)
  Full text articles. Has news articles from three South African newspapers (Business Day, Financial Mail, Sunday Times), AllAfrica.com, Agence France Presse.
• World News Connection (Stanford users only)
  Full text articles. Includes these South African sources - Business Day, Daily Dispatch, Die Burger, Johannesburg Sunday Times; Mail & Guardian, Rosebank Sunday Times, SAPA (South African Press Association), Saturday Star, Sowetan, The Star. http://wnc.dialog.com/index.cfm
• Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
  Breaking News (BBC, CNN, AP, etc.)
  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/news.html
  
• News - By Country
  Links to African newspapers / news sources. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/current2.html
  News - Continent Wide
  Links to African news sources. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/current.html
  

Older African Newspapers Held by U.S. Libraries

Newspaper Indexes

IndexKenya.org
"indexkenya.org is an onlineindex of articles published in Nairobi newspapers." Subjects covered include culture, law / governance, reproductive health, and other topics. "The index will ultimately include details of articles published since 1980. The actual content of an article is not provided, rather online citations describing the articles. Hard copy of any article indexed can be ordered directly from the Kenya Indexing Project. This database will be updated on a regular basis." The Thesaurus database can be helpful in looking up citations for topics. Based in Nairobi, Kenya. [KF] http://www.indexkenya.org/

Mail and guardian index
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of Natal
Series: (Publication series / University of Natal Library)
Continues: Weekly mail & guardian index

GREEN CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION
1)AI3 .W443 2000 1 Information Center
2)AI3 .W443 2002 1 Information Center

HOOVER CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION
3)AI3.W442 1994 1 STACKS
4)AI3 .W443 1995 1 STACKS
5)AI3 .W443 1996 1 STACKS
6)AI3 .W443 1997 1 STACKS
7)AI3 .W443 1999 1 STACKS