HIST 104: Africa During World War II: Primary Sources

10 digitized collections of African and African Studies primary sources from Northwestern University.

Historic Maps of Africa

Free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. Tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages.

Digitized rare books and archives from the American University in Cairo.

Large collection of digitized primary sources from otherwise underrepresented regions in the world.

A searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques, and the postwar Présence Africaine, as well as the Québécois journal Liberté.

Newspapers from Morocco, Algeria and Egypt printed between 1870 and 2021. Although predominantly in Arabic, this collection includes key titles in English and French.

800,000 pages from three newspapers, Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald (Ethiopia), and The Monitor (Uganda) printed between 1943-2017.

In French

In French