Research: Race & Ethnicity in Africa: Find Articles & Journals

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Articles about this subject can be found in publications from a wide variety of disciplines. Use the databases on this page to get access to thousands of articles examining the subject from different perspectives or browse the key publications shown.

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Article Databases

Africa-Wide Information This link opens in a new window Africa-Wide Information searches across bibliographic databases from around the world to provide citations and abstracts on all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations. Date coverage: 16th century - present.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window Anthropology Plus provides worldwide coverage of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary fields. Date coverage: late 19th century - present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles. Date coverage: earliest issues of each journal up to the most current five years for most publications and to the present for some.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window Women's Studies International indexes women's studies, women's issues and gender-focused journal and magazine articles, books and book chapters, dissertations and reports worldwide. Date coverage: 1972 - present.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews. It also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Forty percent of the content is published outside of North America. Date coverage: 1952 - present.

Key Journals & eJournals

Africa Journals Online (AJOL) - Sociology & Anthropology Journals
"African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL hosts 633 Journals including 362 Open Access Journals."
One can browse AJOL journals by broad subject categories or by countries.
Africa South of the Sahara - Selected Internet Sources
Selected online resources including journals & magazines listed under countries or by subject/topic. Created & maintained by Karen Fung from Stanford University Libraries. Click on country link and look for 'Journals & Magazines'.
African newspapers by country
From African newspapers on the internet, a LibGuide or resources guide created and maintained by Beth Restrick of Boston University African Studies Library. It is a listing of African newspapers available online, from Algeria to Zimbabwe.