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Africana Microform at MSU Libraries: Periodical Holdings

A guide for microfilm resources about Africa.

Periodical Microforms from Africa

Angola

Diario de Luanda. 1961-1966,1969-1974 (6354 Microfilm)

Benin

Dahomey. Journal officiel de la Republique du Dahomey. 7036 Microfilm (1894-1955)
 

Botswana

Basutoland News. (6657 Microfilm) (1962-1966)

Chad

Chad. Journal officiel de la Republique du Tchad. 12 microfilm reels. 28954 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: ...8),12(1970)-14(1972),18(1976)-20(1978) Some years incomplete; and,28955 Microfilm (1959-1967) 

Congo, Democratic Republic of

Moniteur Katangais. (Elisabethville). 6595 Microfilm (1960/1961-1962/1963)

Essor du Congo. (Lubumbashi (Elisabethville) 6359 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: (1944-1958,1967-1968) 

Cote d’Ivoire

Abidjan matin 6598 Microfilm (1961-1964)

Fraternite matin. (Abidjan) 6596 Microfilm. (1964-)

Ethiopia

Adis zaman (Adis Ababa). 29022 Microfilm. 1940 [1948]-1965 [1973] = reel 3-reel 44, Sept. 11, 1973 -Sept. 11, 1975 = reel 45-reel 49, Sept. 11, 1975-Sept. 10, 1981 = n.s. reel 1-n.s. reel 18

The African [New York City: African Magazine Co., 1937-1948] 6 v. Organ of the Universal Ethiopian Students' Association. LIB. HAS: 1-6 (22942 Microfilm) (1937-1948)

Le Courrier d'Ethiopie. 1929-1936 (15130 Microfilm) 

Gambia

The Gambian Echo 29177 Microfilm (1948; 1955)

Ghana

The African National Times 29177 Microfilm (1950-1951)
African Telegraph and Gold Coast Mirror. 29173 Microfilm

Amansuon 29177 Microfilm

Ashanti pioneer. (Kumasi, Ghana) 1939-1962. 29 reels. (4375 Microfilm) 

Daily graphic (Accra, (Ghana) (4333 Microfilm) 1952-1979

Evening news. (Accra). (6363 Microfilm) LIB. HAS: (1960-1968)
 

Kenya
Baraza (Nairobi) Text in Swahili. 1966-1979 (20681 Microfilm) 

East African standard (Nairobi) 1902-1974 (6237 Microfilm)
 

Liberia

Daily Observer  29071 Microfilm 

Madagascar

The Antananarivo annual and Madagascar magazine. 3159 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: 1-2,4,9,13-13,16 (1875-1892) 

Courrier de Madagascar. (Tananarive). 11189 Microfilm LIB. HAS: (1962-1971) 

Mali

L'Essor. (Bamako, Comite militaire de liberation nationale). 11188 Microfilm LIB. HAS: (1961-1979)
 

Mauritius

Advance (Port-Louis, Mauritius) 6656 Microfilm (1962-1964)

Mozambique

Diario de Mocambique. (Beira, Mizambique) 1962-1971 (7564 Microfilm)

Namibia

Allgemeine Zeitung. (Windhoek). 6236 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: (1959-1964)

Nigeria

The Anglo-African. (Lagos, Nigeria). 6597 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: (1963-1965)

Daily express. (Lagos, Nigeria). 6362 Microfilm . LIB. HAS: (1960-1965) 

The Daily Service (Lagos) Microfilm 29177

Daily times (Lagos) 1949-1980 (4332 Microfilm)

The eagle and Lagos critic (Lagos : O.E. Macaulay, 1883-5). 1 reel. 29076 Microfilm. 
 

Senegal

L'Afrique : force ouvriere. (Dakar), 1951-1959. (2550-1 Microfilm) 

Afrique nouvelle. (Dakar) 1954-1957,1959-1967 (6234 Microfilm) 

Bulletin de l'enseignement de l'Afrique occidentale francaise. (Dakar). LIB. HAS: 1-84 (1913-1933) (10166 Microfilm) continued by L'Education africaine. 85-103,12-48 (1934-1939,1951-1958)

Dakar-matin. (Dakar). 1959-1970 (6352 Microfilm)

L'Education africaine. (Dakar). LIB. HAS: 85-103,12-48 (1934-1939,1951-1958) (10166 Microfilm)

 
 

Sierra Leone

Daily mail, incorporating the weekly news. (Freetown, Sierra Leone). 1952-1955,1962-1965 (4369 Microfilm) 

Somalia

Corriere de la Somalia. (Mogadiscio). 6358 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: (1964-1968)

South Africa

Abantu-Batho 29027 Microfilm (1930-1931)

Advance (Cape Town). 1 reel (6574 Microfilm)

The black man 29067 Microfilm

The Bloemfontein post [microform] 29208 Microfilm

Cape Guardian (Cape Town) 6574 Microfilm LIB. HAS: 1 (1937) 

Cape Tmes 14284 Microfilm (1968-1974)

The Cape Town English press index for the year ... (1871-1875 MICROFORMS, Z6956 .G7 Microfiche) 

Fighting talk. (Johannesburg, 1954-1963). (6573 Microfilm)

Friend (Bloemfontein) 29195 Microfilm (1911-1914)

Tsala ea batho = The people's friend. (Kimberley) 29032 Microfilm 1910-1915
Tsala ea Becoana] = The friend of the Bechuana. 29032 Microfilm 1910-1915

Tanzania

Daily news (Dar es Salaam) (27505 Microfilm) (1972-1982)

Uganda

Uganda argus. (Kampala) 1962-1972. 28 reels. (6348 Microfilm) SUPERSEDES Uganda herald.

SUPERSD BY Voice of Uganda.

United Kingdom (Colonial Periodicals)

The African colonizer. LIB. HAS: 1-2:11 (1840-1841) (28981 Microfilm)

The African mail. Official organ for West Africa of the British Cotton Growing Association and for West African Sanitation of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. LIB. HAS: (1903-1917) (7763 Microfilm)

The African repository and colonial journal. 313b r.49 etc. LIB. HAS: 1-25 (1825-1849) NOTE: hardcopy held for The African repository. DT621.A34 LIB. HAS: 27-68 (1851-1892)

The African times. (London). 6366 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: (1862-1902) 

African times and Orient review (London). 6367 Microfilm. 1-2;1;4-6 (1912-1918) 28981 Microfilm (1914-18) 

East Africa. (London). 12566 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: 1-12 (1924-1936) 

East Africa and Rhodesia. (London) 25 reels. 12566 Microfilm. LIB. HAS: 13-42 (1936-1967) 

United States

The Colonizationist and journal of freedom (Boston). 313b r. 603 Microfilm LIB. HAS: (1833-1834)

Zambia

Central African post (Lusaka) 1959-1964 (4657 Microfilm) 

Zimbabwe

Bantu mirror. (Bulawayo) 14067 Microfilm (1952-1962) 

The Central African examiner. (Salisbury). 9873 Microfilm LIB. HAS: 1-9 (1957-1965) 

The Chronicle (Bulawayo). 6658 Microfilm LIB. HAS: 1960-1963,1967-1969,1971-1976,1978 

The Clarion 1952 1 reel (6574 Microfilm) 

The Classic. (Johannesburg) 1-2 (1963-1968) (431 Microfiche)

Concord (Salisbury: Interracial Association of Southern Rhodesia). 7714 Microfilm LIB. HAS: 1-14 (1954-1958)

The financial gazette (Harare) (27516 Microfilm) (1979-1981)

Forward (Johannesburg) 29177 Microfilm (1952-1953)