African Studies: News, current events, historical newspapers

UF users have access to several excellent current and back file newspaper databases by subscription, in addition to all current African newspapers available free to the public on the open web. For more specialized journalism resources, see the Journalism Guide (note also Newspaper Resources links from the guides to French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Studies, Italian Studies, Portuguese Studies, and Spanish Studies). The Journalism Guide includes links to professional journalism organizations, some of which promote press rights, free speech rights, human rights and the interests of jailed or persecuted journalists around the world (David Shedden at the Poynter Institute provides a more complete listing on his Resource Center page). These may be important sources of research information.

Access World News

• Over 2,200 full-text newspapers and other news sources including many Florida newspapers (including the Miami Herald), the (12/12/79-Current), (1/1/85-Current), (1995-Current), and the (1/1/77-Current). Boston Globe Chicago TribuneNew York Times Washington Post

African Newspaper Collection

• African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive in partnership with Readex and the Center for Research Libraries (most issues from before 1923). More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

British newspaper archive

• "The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. "

LexisNexis Academic

• Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
• Limit searches by news category, source, and date, and search within specific title

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

• Search list of databases for individual titles. Full-page-images and article images from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and The Chicago Defender.

Several individual African newspapers are available in microfilm format only: Daily Nation (Nairobi), Taifa Leo (Nairobi), Sunday Nation (Nairobi), Taifa Jumapili (Nairobi), Kenya Times (Nairobi), The Herald (Harare; Sunday issues only), South Africa Times UK (weekly), The East African (Dar es Salaam; also available via LexisNexis), Sunday News (Dar es Salaam), The Standard (Nairobi), The Monitor (Kampala), The New Vision (Kampala).

Check the library catalog for details. A more complete index of African newspapers available on microfilm in US academic libraries is maintained by the Cooperative Africana Materials Project at the Center for Research Libraries (AFRINUL).

For regions and publications without indexes to local and regional or national newspapers, especially where events are not covered by international sources, specialist news digests can assist research by providing access to specific dates, places and actors relating to the events of interest.

• Africa Research Bulletin: Political Series (1997-present available online) Exeter, U.K.: Africa Research Ltd. 1985- Monthly Reference DT1 .A2283 
• Africa Research Bulletin: Economic Series (1997-present available online) Exeter, U.K.: Africa Research Ltd.1985- Monthly
  Reference HC 501 .A534
• Africa Today Periodicals DT1 .A22 (1999-present available online via Project Muse).
• African business Periodicals HC800 .A1 A35 ( 01/01/1994 to present in Academic OneFile).
• The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) produces objective and timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in more than 180 countries. Access to individual Country Profile and Country Report print issues is available via catalog search (use the country name as title; Economist Intelligence Unit as author).
• Jeune Afrique Periodicals AP27.J4 Print publication ceased 2006; archive available online.

• Africa South of the Sahara: African News - Latest(Stanford University Library; Karen Fung)
• African Newspapers on the internet(African Studies Centre, University of Leiden)
• African Studies Internet Resources: Electronic Newspapers of Africa(Columbia University Libraries; Yuusuf Caruso)
• An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet: (search for) News and newspapers--Africa (Michigan State University Library; Peter Limb)
• GetLocalNe.ws »  Africa