Research Guides: HIST 204: Colonial Rule and Its Aftermaths in Africa: Primary Sources

Digital Collections of Primary Sources

Herskovitz Collections (via Northwestern)
10 digitized collections of African and African Studies primary sources from Northwestern University.
Afriterra
Historic Maps of Africa

U.S. Declassified Documents Online
Publication Dates: 1941-current
Contains full text of declassified White House, CIA, FBI, and State Department documents from presidential libraries.

African Online Digital Library
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.
American University in Cairo Digital Collections
Digitized rare books and archives from the American University in Cairo.

ProQuest History Vault
Provides digital reproductions of archival materials related to Southern life and slavery, the Black freedom struggle, American politics and society, WWII and the Vietnam War.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Access public domain books and journals from U.S. research libraries digitized by Google, Internet Archive, and other digitization partnerships.

Endangered Archives Program
Large collection of digitized primary sources from otherwise underrepresented regions in the world.
Liberation Journals Index
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.

Empire Online
Publication Dates: 1500's-Present
Documents the rise and fall of Euro-American imperialism and de-colonization through digitized collections of written and spoken words, still images, prints, maps, and posters

Black Studies Periodicals
Publication Dates: 1902-Present
Contains summaries of articles in the field of Black Studies from scholarly journals and newsletters published in the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Publication Dates: 1990-Present
Includes full text of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press in the United States. Coverage is national and regional.

Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers Collection (via CRL)
Newspapers from Morocco, Algeria and Egypt printed between 1870 and 2021. Although predominantly in Arabic, this collection includes key titles in English and French.
East African Newspapers Collection (via CRL)
800,000 pages from three newspapers, Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald (Ethiopia), and The Monitor (Uganda) printed between 1943-2017.
African Morning Post 1935-1937 (Ghana)
The Bantu World 1932-1937 (South Africa)
Le courrier d'Ethiopie 1929-1936
In French
Paris-Dakar 1933-1942
In French
The Sierra Leone Daily Mail 1933-1944
Somalia Courier 1949-1950
The Southern Nigeria Defender 1943-1946

ProQuest Historical Newspapers (International)
Searches across the full text of Chinese Historical Newspapers, The Guardian and Observer, Jerusalem Post, and Times of India.