HIST E332 African History from Colonial Rule to Independence 

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Encyclopedia of African History (Reference DT20 .E53)

• A-Z reference resource on the history of the entire African continent.
• Entries range the earliest evolution of human beings in Africa to the beginning of the twenty-first century

 New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd ed., 5v, 2008

• Addresses the entire history of African cultures from ancient civilizations to the emergence of 53 independent countries
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Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history (Reference DT29 .E53 2003)

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Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Southern Africa (Reference JQ2720.A127 W55 1989)

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, 4 vols. (Reference DT351 .E53 1997) provides scholarly articles with bibliographies.

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Historical Dictionary of Angola (Reference DT1264 .J36 2004)

Dictionary of Ethiopia (Reference DT381 .S55 2004)

Dictionary of Somalia (Reference DT401.2 .M85 2003)

Historical Dictionary of the Sudan (Stacks DT155.3 .V64 2002)

Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe (Reference DT2925 .R83 2001)

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 Political Handbook of the World (Stacks JF37 .P6 1975 to 2006)

An African Biographical Dictionary (Reference DT18 .B76 1994)

African States and Rulers (Reference DT31 .S7859 1999)

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Atlas of African Affairs (Reference G2445 .G7 1984)

Historical Atlas of Africa (Reference G2446.S1 H5 1985)

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Precolonial

The Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa (Reference DT2 .E53 1997)

Slavery

Africa and the West: a documentary history from the slave trade to independence (Reference DT353.5.E9 A34)

Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (Reference HT861 .H57 1997)

Research guides and bibliographies

The African Experience (Reference DT14 .A37)

Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed (Reference DT19 .S68 2003)

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Demographic Yearbook (United Nations) (Reference HA17 .D45 2002) includes population, mortality, marriage, and divorce statistics.

International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993 (Reference HA4675 .M552 1998) provides statistics on population, labor, agriculture, industry, trade, transportation, finance, and education.

Statistical Yearbook (United Nations) (Reference HA12.5 .U63 2004) includes population, education and literacy, health and nutrition, and economic statistics.

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allAfrica.com aggregates, produces, and distributes news from across Africa posting over 700 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as a 400,000-article searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997).

BBC News - Africa provides the latest news from Africa as reported from the BBS, including country profiles.

Inside Africa provides news from CNN's weekly program.

NewsLink: African Newspapers links to newspapers issued by African countries.

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 Africa South of the Sahara is an annotated guide to Africa related internet resources for students, faculty, librarians, teachers, journalists, business people and others.

African Studies Center: Africa Web Links an Annotated Resource List is created and maintained by the University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center.

African Union is the official Web site of the Organization of African Union (OAU).

Afrika.no the Index on Africa is supported by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa highlights the UN's support for peace and African development. Includes research reports, country profiles, UN news on Africa, and links to other information on Africa.

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