Open Access Resources for Area Studies: Africa

Publications, statistics, and news on Africa.

Documents from the African Union.

From the International Food Policy Research Institute, "an open data visualization platform designed to provide information on key themes for research and development, such as agriculture, climate, poverty and child health across 13 countries in Africa South of the Sahara at the sub-national level."

Reports and statistics.

Open access statistics and publications, in partnership with the African Union.

Data by theme, topic, and country from the African Development Bank.

Reports, protocols, guidelines, and other publications.

Economic statistics, as well as links to publications and reports.

Digital archive of material related to activist groups supporting the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and injustice.

Digitized posters from MSUL's Special Collections.

Oral sources digitized from Ghana, Ethiopia, and South Africa.

Podcast about African Studies.

Digitized collections of five photographers from Mali.

Digital archive of video from South Africa from the 1980s and 1990s.

MSU African Studies Center curriculum to support K-12 educational outcomes.

Curriculum for teaching about the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Database of information on enslaved individuals in Brazil and Louisiana.

The African Commodity Trade Database (ACTD) aims to stimulate and deepen research on African and global economic history. The database provides export and import series at product level for more than two and a half centuries of African trade (1737-2010).

Case law, legislation, and law journals from a number of African countries.

Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa. Combining demographic sources, satellite and aerial imagery and other cartographic sources, it is designed to enable comparative and long-term analyses of urban dynamics - covering 7,500 agglomerations in 50 countries.

GIC Network is an international research network led by the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University.