Note: Some paper series are available online in HTML or downloadable in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat).

• Africa Institute of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
  • AISA Home Page: overview of activities and programs, some information about publications
  • Policy brief. (Online) 2008-
    Note: some print issues are not available online
• Africa Policy Institute -- Reports and Briefs (Nairobi, Kenya)
  The site also features information about API research projects and publications available in print only.With a regional office in Pretoria, South Africa and a liaison office in Kampala, Uganda: "API is an independent, not-for-profit pan-African think tank designed as a centre of excellence on peace, security and governance, conceived as enablers of sustainable development."
• Africa Portal Library (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  A digital library of over 3000 books, journals, and documents related to African policy issues; a directory of experts; plus, current news analysis and opinion articles.
• African Capacity Building Foundation: Virtual Library on Capacity Development (Harare, Zimbabwe)
  "To be the leading African institution, in partnership with other stakeholders, in building sustainable capacity for good governance and poverty reduction in Africa...The Board of Governors comprises representatives of African governments and all donor countries to the ACBF as well as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, UNDP and the IMF."
• African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) -- Publications (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international inter-governmental policy research and training organization... The Centre's activities focus on the implementation of Agenda 21 and related conventions on biological diversity, climate change and desertification."
• African Economic Research Consortium -- Publications (Nairobi, Kenya)
  At this site, abstracts and full texts in PDF format are available: papers, executive summaries, research newsletter, etc. "The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in July 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training."
• African Forum & Network on Debt & Development (AFRODAD) (Harare, Zimbabwe)
  • This site offers information about research, occasional papers on debt, poverty reduction strategy impact, and other topics, plus recent issues of the AFRODAD newsletter: Debt & Development in Africa.
  • All AFRODAD Publications
• Annual Conferences on African Linguistics Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Massachusetts)
  • Selected Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Research and Languages in Africa. Edited by Akinloye Ojo and Lioba Moshi. -- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2009. [A conference originally held at the University of Georgia in 2008; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
    
  • Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Theory and African Language Documentation. Edited by Masangu Matondo, Fiona McLaughlin, and Eric Potsdam.
    -- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2009. [A conference originally held at the University of Florida in 2007; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
    
  • Selected Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Edited by Doris L. Payne and Jaime Peña-- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2007.[A conference originally held in 2006 at University of Oregon; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
    
  • Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization. Edited by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton. -- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2006. [A conference originally held in 2005 at Georgia Southern University; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
    
  • Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives. Edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman.
    -- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2006.
    [A conference originally held in 2004 at Harvard University; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
• African Philosophy Resources: Links to Selected Online Publications (Prof. Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, Orlando)
  • African philosophy online papers
  • African philosophy online books
  • African philosophy online book reviews
  • APR Home Page
• African Population & Health Research Center, Inc. (Nairobi, Kenya)
  This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."
  -- APHRC newsletter
  -- APHRC research reports
  -- APHRC working papers
• AfricAvenir: pour le développement, la coopération internationale et la paix
  (Prof. Kum'a Ndumbe III et al., Douala, Cameroun; via Berlin, Germany)
  • Ce site -- en français, en allemand, et en anglais -- offre beaucoup de liens aux textes choisis (publications occasionelles, travaux et documents), des autres ouvrages sur divers thèmes, et aux médias d'Afrique. Voir surtout:
  • Téléchargements
• AFRISTAT Publications (Observatoire économique et statistique d'Afrique Subsaharienne, Bamako, Mali)
  A ce site officiel, on peut télécharger plusieurs publications de l'organisation au format PDF. De plus, on peut trouver les données statistiques sur les états membres de l'organisation: démographie, education, activités économiques, échanges extérieurs, prix, transports, tourisme et environnement, etc. 'AFRISTAT est une organisation internationale créée par un traité signé le 21 septembre 1993 à Abidjan par les pays de la Zone Franc.'
• Afrobarometer (Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town; Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, Accra; and Michigan State University, Dept. of Political Science, East Lansing, Michigan)
  • "An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa." The site includes: sample surveys, data downloads, briefings and working papers, and selected abstracts from final reports.
• Ahiajoku lecture series. (Online) -- Owerri, Nigeria: Imo State Ministry of Information and Culture, 1979-. HTML format. (via IgboNet, Igbo Heritage, Inc., USA)
  This is an online archive of lectures in English about Igbo culture and language.
• AIACC--Assessment of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors -- Publications (Washington, DC ; Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Eleven of the AIACC projects and a substantial number of reports are on Africa. "AIACC is a global initiative developed in collaboration with the UNEP/WMO Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and funded by the Global Environment Facility to advance scientific understanding of climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation options in developing countries."
  • AIACC Regional Studies -- project summaries
• American Association for the Advancement of Science -- Online Publications on Africa (Washington, DC)
  • "Women in Higher Education and Science -- African Universities Responding to HIV/AIDS": Report from a workshop held 3-5 December 2001, Nairobi, Kenya -- Washington, DC: AAAS, 2002.
  • "Partnerships for Strengthening Conservation Biology in Africa": Report of a workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, 10-13 September 2001 -- Washington, DC: AAAS, 2001.
  • "Global Trade and Consumer Choices: Coral Reefs in Crisis -- Papers presented at a symposium held at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the AAAS (San Francisco, California, 19 February 2001) -- Washington, DC: AAAS, 2001.
  • "Malaria in Africa: Emerging Prevention and Control Strategies": Report from a symposium held at the 2001 AAAS Annual Meeting, February 17, 2001, San Francisco, California -- Washington, DC: AAAS, 2001.
  • "Science in Mozambique: Opportunities for US Collaboration": New York, February 2000 -- Washington, DC: AAAS, 2000.
  • "Science in Africa: Emerging Water Management Issues": Symposium proceedings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1998 -- Washington, DC: AAAS, 1998.
  • The Tree Against Hunger: Enset-Based Agricultural Systems in Ethiopia (1997) -- Washington, DC: AAAS; Awassa Agricultural Research Center; Kyoto University Center for African Area Studies; University of Florida, 1997.
• Association of Commonwealth Universities--The Africa Unit: Publications (London, UK)
  This site offers information about the organization and publications on issues in higher education and the application of digital technologies, including academic papers, conference reports, newsletters, research reports, statistics, etc.
• Bonn International Center for Conversion--Publications (Bonn, Germany)
  "BICC is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace and development through the efficient and effective transformation of military-related structures, assets, functions and processes."
• Boston University, African Studies Center (Boston, Massachusetts)
  
• Bulletin of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. (Online) ACAS bulletin. (via Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  "Founded in 1977, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to: formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa."
• The Center for Global Development on Africa (Washington, DC)
  • "[Founded in 2001] The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all."
  • Supporting Private Business Growth in African Fragile States: A Guiding Framework for the World Bank Group in South Sudan and Other Nations (2012). By Benjamin Leo, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Ross Thuotte. 112 pages in PDF format
  • Innovative Financing in Early Recovery: The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund (2012). By Jacob Hughes, Amanda Glassman, and Walter Gwenigale. Working paper; no. 288. 34 pages in PDF format
  • All publications on Africa, 2002 to present
• Centre d'étude d'Afrique Noire, Université Montesquieu (Bordeaux, France)
  -- Voir les publications, y compris: Travaux et documents en ligne du CEAN ; les tables des matières et les sommaires des Etudes et recherches -et- des Bibliographies
  
• Centre de Recherche Cultures, Santé, Sociétés(Aix-en-Provence, France)
  • "L'équipe s'intéresse aux recherches sur l'interface entre biologie et culture, et plus précisément sur les questions relevant de la santé, de la maladie et de son traitement."
  • Lettre du CRECSS, La. (Online) Bulletin d'information bimestriel. -- Aix-en-Provence, France: CRECSS, 2005-
  • Publications du CRECSS
• Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa -- Publications (Abuja, Nigeria)
  This site offers free downloads of CDD publications (in PDF format) on the West African diaspora, Nigerian elections, as well as reports on gender, human rights, governance, security and development in Nigeria and West Africa; CDD seminar series; and the newsletter:
  West Africa insight. (Online) -- Abuja: CDD, 2010-
• The Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, Zaria, Nigeria
  
• Centre for Policy Studies (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  Originally founded in 1987 at the University of the Witwatersrand, the CPS became an independent research institution in 1996. Research reports, policy briefs, policy--issues & actors, and the newsletter "Synopsis" are available in downloadable PDF format from this African policy think tank's web site.
• The Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, Oxford University -- Working paper series (UK)
  • CSAE Home Page -- Research news, etc. ; see also: CSAE Working papers
  • Ethiopian village studies (1996)
  • Data sets (Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania)
• CASE: Community Agency for Social Enquiry -- Publications (Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  The list of publications from this South African socio-economic and policy research NGO includes a few online full text reports, executive summaries, and order information for the rest.
• CASAS: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (Cape Town, South Africa)
  There are few free publications available online; most are for sale.
• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation -- Publications (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  The CSVR (founded in 1989) offers a site with an extensive library of online reports and news on various topics relating to South African civil society, criminal justice, security, and human rights.
• CeSPI: Centro Studi Politica Internazionale--Pubblicazioni (Roma, Italy)
  • See especially: "Climate Change and Human Mobility on Africa: Dialogue for a Strategic Cooperation between Italy and Africa," (2009) Rome, Italy, 21 April 2009.
  • "New Migration Trends and Policy Challenges in the Mediterranean: A Dialogue between European and North African Experts," (2008) Tripoli, Libya, 18-19 June 2008.
  • CeSPI Programmi Africa Sub-Sahariana
• Chatham House on Africa formerly The Royal Institute of International Affairs. (London, UK)
  Publications section includes online briefing papers and reports in PDF format; plus links to related information about research activities and events.
• CLIO en Afrique: bulletin d'anthropologie et d'histoire africaine en langue française, (Online) Archives, 1997-2007. -- Aix-en-Provence, France: Le Groupe de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, Université de Provence, 1997-2007.
  Remarque: En 2007, cette publication a été remplacé par les Recherches en anthropologie et en histoire de l'Afrique (RAHIA).
   
• Columbia University, The Earth Institute: The MDG Centre--East and Southern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
• CODESRIA: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal)
  • CODESRIA is 'a pan-African, non-governmental organisation, set up in 1973. Its constituencies are African research institutes, social science faculties of African universities as well as professional organisations. It has an observer status and a collaboration agreement with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).'
  • Publications and communications, including CODESRIA online journals: CODESRIA bulletin. (Online) --and-- TOCs and excerpts from Africa development. (Online)
  • Bibliographies thématiques
  • Catalog of Theses Sponsored by CODESRIA, 1998 to 2009
  • Les racines de la crise militaro-politique en Côte d'Ivoire. Par Francis Akindès. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique, 2004. (en format PDF)
  • Democratic transition in Anglophone West Africa. By Jibrin Ibrahim. Monograph series. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), c2003. (Format PDF)
  • Enfant en situation de conflit armé et de violence urbaine: bibliographie annotée et signalétique. Par Tshikala K. Biaya. Monograph series. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2002. (en format PDF)
  • Intellectuels non europhones. Par Ousmane Kane. Document de travail. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2003.
  • Littératures africaines francophones des années 1980 et 1990. Par Lydie Moudileno. Document de travail; no. 2. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2003. (Format PDF)
  • West Africa's political economy in the next millennium: retrospect and prospect. By Adebayo Olukoshi. Monograph series; 2/2001. -- Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2001. (PDF format)
  • Experiencing and understanding AIDS in Africa (1998). Edited by Charles Becker et al. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique, 1998. 712 pages, downloadable by chapter in PDF format.
• Connecting-Africa (African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
  "...a service that provides access to African research information produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere: details of Africa experts affiliated to Dutch and Belgian organizations; details of Dutch and Belgian development-related organizations, universities and research institutes; titles of published research on Africa in the Netherlands and elswhere; digital resources on Africa (full-text of publications, images and sound) in about 55 institutional repositories.
• Crisis States Research Centre--Publications See London School of Economics & Political Science below
  
• Danish Institute for International Studies, Department for Development Research. Formerly Centre for Development Research. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  This centre has many studies on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. See especially: Working Papers and Library Papers, many of which are online in full text; plus: SSC Africa Project--Scandinavian Seminar College Africa Project Workshop Papers, 1998.
• DIAL--Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation, Université Paris Dauphine
• Droit de l'Homme et Dialogue Interculturel (Groupe de Travail DHDI, Université Paris I, France)
  Une archive de textes intégrals et de bibliographies (en formats PDF, WORD, ou HTML) sur un grand nombre de sujets dans le domaine du droit et l'anthropologie; beaucoup d'auteurs traitent des questions juridiques en Afrique...surtout en Afrique francophone.
• Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey (Cairo, Egypt)
  • The site offers online publications, information about conferences, and related links. '...to improve the quality and increase the quantity of applied policy-oriented economic research ...launched in June of 1993, with assistance from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the European Commission, the Ford Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank, subsequently followed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.'
  • ERF Newsletter
  • ERF Working papers
  • ERF Conferences
  • ERF searchable database
• EconPapers (Sune Karlsson, Swedish Business School, Örebro Universitet, Örebro, Sweden)
  A searchable repository of research papers by economists working on development issues worldwide. Search under "Africa" or individual countries.
• ESRF: Economic and Social Research Foundation -- Publications List (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; via Kabissa, Washington, DC and London)
  The ESRF was established in 1993 as an independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis.
• Ethiopian Development Research Institute (Addis Ababa)
  "EDRI was established in August 1999 by the Ethiopian government with the mission to: conduct rigorous research and policy analysis that provide knowledge-based inputs to policymaking and policy implementations ; and, disseminate its research outputs and findings to the policy and research community, academia, the development community and other stakeholders."
  --EDRI Publications
• Ethno-Net Africa Publications on West and Central Africa (MOST-Management of Social Transformations Programme, UNESCO, Paris)
  "Ethno-Net Africa is a UNESCO-MOST network of African social scientists engaged in comparative research, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social change in Africa. It attempts to address ethnic issues in a more constructive, comparative and regional perspective, identifying common denominators and drawing lessons from experiences in specific countries and regions."
• Experience Rich Anthropology (Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
  • A collection of selected readings, electronic versions of classical ethnographic works, field notes, and teaching aids. The small e-books collection includes:
  • The Kalela dance: aspects of social relationships among urban Africans in northern Rhodesia. By J. Clyde Mitchell (1956).
  • The political organization of the Mbembe, Nigeria. By Rosemary Harris (1965).
  • Women of the grassfields: a study of the economic position of women in Bamenda, British Cameroons. By Phyllis M. Kaberry (1952).
• Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository (Rome, Italy)
  --See also: FAO on Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)
• France, Ministères de l'Economie, des Finances, et de l'Industrie, des Affaires Etrangères et de l'Outre-mer: Agence Française de Développement -- Publications
  Ce site de l'AFD offre les tables des matières des dernières numéros de la revue Afrique contemporaine ; un recueil des extraits de la série Notes et documents ; et diverses autres publications électroniques en texte intégral comme des actes de séminaires organisés par le groupe AfD, des études économiques, et des documents de références financiers.
• Geological Survey of Namibia, Downloadable Publications (Windhoek, Namibia)
  
• GRIP-Groupe de Recherche et d'Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité -- Rapports (Brussels, Belgium)
  Quelques rapports sur la RDC, la Centrafricaine, et le Darfour en plus des notes d'analyse.
• HakiElimu -- Publications (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  This small archive includes online documents from the Tanzanian government on education matters. "HakiElimu was established in early 2001 by a group of 13 Tanzanian founder members. The group consists of some of the leading members of the civil society, academic, research, media, human rights and critical gender community in Tanzania."
• Harvard University Research Centers and Programs -- Publications on Africa (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • Africa Research Program -- Papers.
  • Center for Population and Development -- Working Papers, 1990 to present
  • Center for International Development -- Publications.
• Health Systems Trust -- Publications (Durban, South Africa)
  [In addition to 3 periodicals...] "These are largely research reports which include subjects such as human resource development; informatics; legislation; finance; district systems development; environmental health; mental health; nutrition and STDs/HIV/AIDS."
• Households in Conflict Network -- Papers (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  Research papers and some data sets on Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, and Uganda...among other parts of the world.
  --See also: MICROCON below.
• The Hub: Supporting Rural Development in Western and Central Africa---Resources Online (Dakar, Sénégal)
  • A web site --in French or in English-- offering information on research and development project activities in the region, with an extensive, searchable archive of downloadable reports from US government, intergovernmental, and international NGOs; plus a library of links to web sites of development organizations.
• IFAN--Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop: Biens culturels africains: entrepôt de ressources documentaires de l'IFAN-CAD Réalisé en partenariat avec l'Université de Toulouse II-
  Le Mirail et le soutien financier du Fonds francophone des inforoutes et le Ministère français des affaires étrangères. (Dakar, Sénégal)
  Un nouveau projet numérique de l'IFAN qui se sont crée avec l'application "DSpace."
• Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) sur l'Afrique subsaharienne -et- sur le Maghreb (Paris, France)
  
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Dakar, Sénégal; Bondy, Île-de-France, France)
  • Publications institutionnelles
    
  • Publications en ligne du programme JEREMI (Jeunes, Education, Recompositions familiales, Emploi, Mariage, Inégalités)
    
  • Le bimestriel général de l'IRD: Sciences au sud. (Online) -- Paris, France : IRD, 2003--
    
  • Bibliothèque électroniques en Partenariat Greenstone Digital Library
    Ce site offre plusieurs collections de texte intégral en ligne, y compris celles de la Bibliothèque centrale de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar, Sénégal); à l'Université Gaston-Berger (Saint-Louis, Sénégal;) et, à l'Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
  • Ressources documentaires de l'IRD: toutes les publications
• Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Tunis, Tunisie)
  • << Etablissement du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, doté de l'autonomie financière, l'IRMC rélève de la Sous-direction des Sciences Sociales et Humaines et de l'Archéologie de la Direction Générale de la Cooperation Internationale et du Développement. Il est placé sous la tutelle scientifique d'un conseil scientifique consultatif et sous l'autorité de l'ambassadeur de France en Tunisie >>.
  • Le bulletin de l'IRMC: Correspondances. (Online) -- Tunis: IRMC, 2001--
  • Publications des travaux de l'IRMC
• Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) sur l'Afrique subsaharienne -et- sur le Maghreb (Paris, France)
  
• Institute for Global Dialogue -- Publications: Global Dialogue, Global Insight, and Occasional Papers (Midrand, South Africa)
  The Institute website offers selected issues of publications series since 2000 on African and international economic and political relations.
• The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation -- Publications (Cape Town, South Africa)
  This site offers online publications on "transitional justice" in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa. "The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation was launched in May 2000 and is self-consciously located in post-TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) South Africa."
• Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex -- Online Publications on Topics (UK)
  • This site offers news, abstracts, and orders ; some titles also available as free downloadable PDF files. Search for individual countries or Africa-related titles.
• Institute for Global Dialogue -- Publications (Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  The website of this South African NGO offers free access to some reports in downloadable Word format ; many other IGD publications are available upon request via e-mail.
• Institute of Policy Analysis and Research -- Publications (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Publications include IPAR discussion & occasional Papers (PDF or ZIP files); working papers, policy briefs and views, annual report, etc. "The Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) was established in 1994 as an independent, indigenous and non-partisan private organisation. It is a non-profit body whose primary goal is to pursue quality research-based public policy analysis and to generate non-partisan discussion focused on Kenya and the region."
• Institute for Public Policy Research: Publications (Windhoek, Namibia)
  The site offers downloadable publications (in PDF) from the institute. "The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) was launched in April 2001 as a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to deliver independent, analytical, critical yet constructive research into social, political and economic issues that affect development in Namibia."
• Institute for Security Studies--Publications (Pretoria, South Africa)
  A full range of monogaphs, journals, and papers available online in PDF or HTML formats.
• INEP--Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (Bissau, Guiné-Bissau)
  • Fundado em 1984: "A actividade principal do INEP consiste na realização de investigação fundamental e na elaboração de estudos, sendo constituído por um corpo de investigadores nacionais permanentes e uma rede de investigadores associados nacionais e estrangeiros."
  • Publicações
    --Revista Soronda. (Online): 1986-1995, 1997-2004
• International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region = Réseau documentaire international sur la région des Grands Lacs africains (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • The website is in French or in English consisting of an archive of documents from governments, local and international NGOs, scholars, and other individuals from the early 1990s to the present.
  • Documents published on the web site since December 2002
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (Washington, DC)
  • This extensive website includes downloadable reports and abstracts -- some in French -- for research since the late 1980s on Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. "Through its policy analyses, which is of broad relevance to the developing world, IFPRI directly supports developing-country policymakers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society in their efforts to help the poor."
  • IFPRI Home Page
  • IFPRI Publications: Search the full list.
• International IDEA--International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance : Africa (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Political parties in West Africa: the challenge of democratization in fragile states. (October 2007) by Said Adejumobi. -- Stockholm: International IDEA, 2007. 64 pages in PDF format
    See also: French version
  • Traditional justice and reconciliation after violent conflict: learning from African experiences. (February 2008) edited by Luc Huyse, Mark Salter. -- Stockholm: International IDEA, 2008. 224 pages in PDF format. 
  • Traditional justice mechanisms: the Liberian case. (February 2008) by Ezekial Pajibo. -- Stockholm: International IDEA, 2008. 24 pages in PDF format.
    
• International Institute for Environment and Development on Africa (London, UK)
  • IIED Home Page (General)
  • Haramata. (Online) -- London: IIED, 2001-PDF format
    The official bulletin of the IIED Drylands Programme--in English or in French.
  • Drylands Programme: Drylands issue papers (292+ papers in PDF format)
  • Environment and Urbanization Research: Selected reports (2000--)
  • Forestry and Land Use
  • Regoverning Markets Program (IIED, in association with International Farming Systems Research Methodology Network, and the Royal Tropical Institute--The Netherlands)
    -- Regoverning Markets in East Africa
    -- Regoverning Markets in Southern Africa
• International Institute of Tropical Agriculture -- Publications and Other Resources, Ibadan, Nigeria (via Lambourn & Co., Croydon, UK and CGIAR--Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Washington, DC)
  Annual reports, ITTA Bibliography, newsletter, research reports, etc. ---many are available in HTML or PDF; plus catalogs.
• INTRAC--International NGO Training and Research Centre -- Resources Database (Oxford, UK)
  "INTRAC ...supports non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) around the world by helping to explore policy issues, and by strengthening management and organisational effectiveness." The searchable database provides access to downloadable reports and manuals. See also: INTRAC Conferences.
• KIPPRA: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis -- Publications (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "KIPPRA's primary mission is to provide quality public policy advice to the government of Kenya and to the private sector by conducting objective research and analysis and through capacity building in order to contribute to the achievement of national development goals." Note: Access --requiring free registration-- to an extensive archive of annual reports, conference proceedings, discussion papers, occasional papers, policy briefs, and working papers, etc.
• Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre: Publications (Accra, Ghana)
  Since 2003, the centre has been offering training programs and support for policy research and publications on peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Africa.
• Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung -- Namibia Office: Publications (Windhoek, Namibia)
  The site features reports on human rights, elections, and legal issues relevant to Namibia and other African countries.
• London School of Economics and Political Science: Crisis States Research Centre -- Publications (London, UK)
  
• Makerere University, Faculty of Law (Kampala, Uganda)
  • Human Rights and Peace Centre--Publications
    "HURIPEC was set up to provide a focused intellectual and activist space to spearhead the promotion and protection of human rights and peace through a combination of teaching, research, documentation, public debate, seminars, and outreach programmes."
  • Refugee Law Project--Resources: working papers, seminars, and reports.
• Makerere University Institute of Social Research (Kampala, Uganda)
  As of September 2008, the site is still under construction. Annual reports and lists of past publications are available online.
• Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
  • Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
    -- Food Security Group
    -- Country Publications:

    -- Ethiopia
    -- Kenya
    -- Mozambique
    -- Rwanda
    -- Sahel Regional Program (with Institut du Sahel, Bamako, Mali)

    -- International Development Working Papers (IDP)

    See also: IDP Papers (pre-1993)

    -- Agricultural Economics-MSU Home Page (General)
  • MSU's Center for Gender in Global Context
    -- Gender Perspectives on International Development: Working Papers
    -- Annotated bibliographies on: Domestic Workers in the Republic of South Africa and Surrounding Countries (2004) -and- Gender and Education -- Books (2001)
    -- Center Home Page
• MICROCON: A Micro-Level Analysis of Violent Conflict -- Publications (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  The site features research working papers, policy working papers, and policy briefings. "...is a five-year research programme funded by the European Commission. The programme takes an innovative micro level, multidisciplinary approach to studying the conflict cycle."
  --See also: Households in Conflict Network above.
• Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale = Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgique)
  • The website offers information and photos from exhibitions, related links, and lists of publications--only a few are online.
  • Lists of publications
  • Inventory of The Stanley Archives (426 p.) Format PDF.
  • Une Introduction à l'Ethnohistoire des Hema du Nord (Congo du Nord-Est) par Edmond Thiry (2004). -- Tervuren, Belgique: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 2004. (127 p.) Format PDF.
• Namibia Institute for Democracy--Publications (Windhoek)
  This site offers general information about the civic programmes and other activities of the institute and a selection of downloadable publications (in PDF). "The Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) was founded on December 6th, 1991 with the aim of educating Namibians in democracy. The founders of the NID have declared their commitment to a multi-party democracy which they consider to be the only viable form of governance for the Republic of Namibia."
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute: Publications (Uppsala, Sweden)
  • This section of the NAI website includes links to electronic publications and order information for those in print.
  • See especially: Current African Issues ; Discussion Papers ; Policy Dialogue ; Policy Notes ; and Research reports
• Northwestern University Program of African Studies: Publications: Newsletters, Conference Reports, and Working Papers, 1996 to present (Evanston, Illinois)
  
• OHADA.com: Le Portail du Droit des Affaires en Afrique (Centre d'affaire La Défense, Paris, France)
  Une archive de publications en français sur le droit en Afrique. Il faut s'incrire pour avoir accés aux textes intégrals et aux autres services du site.
• Open Society Justice Initiative on Africa (Open Society Foundations, New York)
  • Justice Initiative in Africa (General)
    
  • Fact sheet: "Nationality and discrimination: the case of Kenyan Nubians." (April 2011)
    
  • International law and the right to nationality in Sudan. By Bronwen Manby. (Feb. 2011) -- New York: Open Society Foundations, 2011. 35 pages in PDF format
    
  • Citizenhip law in Africa: a comparative study. 2nd ed. By Bronwen Manby. (Nov 2010) -- New York: Open Society Foundations, 2010. 120 pages in PDF format
    
  • "Criminal force: torture, abuse, and extrajudicial killings by the Nigeria Police Force. By Network on Police Reform in Nigeria. (May 2010) -- New York: Open Society Institute, 2010. 134 pages in PDF format
    
  • Corruption and its consequences in Equatorial Guinea: a briefing paper. (March 2010) 20 pages in PDF format
    
  • Struggles for citizenship in Africa. By Bronwen Manby. (October 2009) -- London, UK: Published by Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, The Royal African Society, and The Social Science Research Council, 2009. Each chapter in PDF format
    
  • Africa discrimination and citizenship audit report. (April 1, 2005)
  • First All African Training Workshop held in Durban, South Africa. (October 2004)
  • Africa Citizenship and Discrimination Preparatory Meeting issues report. (July 27, 2004)
  • Civilian Oversight of the Police in South Africa Mini-Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, June 23-24, 2003
  • Combining learning and legal aid: clinical legal education in Africa. (June 28, 2003)
• Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) (Dakar, Senegal ; Abuja, Nigeria ; Monrovia, Liberia)
  • "...covers 18 countries, which include the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as Cameroon, Chad, and Mauritania. It supports civil society communities and advocates to governments on issues of governance; law, justice and human rights; public health and development; information, communication technology, and media."
  • Migration and deportation in West Africa: developing effective remedies. (Abuja, March 9-10, 2008) Edited by Sam Amadi. -- Dakar, Senegal: OSIWA, 2010. 129 pages in PDF format
    
  • Democratic recession in West Africa: challenges to revivalism. (2008) Edited by Gbenga Gbesan.
    -- Dakar, Senegal: OSIWA, 2010. 89 pages in PDF format
    
  • Governance in West Africa: a survey of trends in 2006 Synthesis report, prepared on behalf of CODESRIA and the Monitoring Team by Adebayo Olukoshi. -- Dakar, Senegal: OSIWA, 2006. 24 pages in PDF format
  • WACSI--West Africa Civil Society Institute (Accra, Ghana)
    "...to strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of CSOs." See especially: WACSI News
• PEP: Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network -- Publications (via Université Laval, Québec, Canada)
  The site offers a searchable digital library of policy briefs, working papers, and reports. The PEP Africa office is located in Dakar, Senegal. "...a global network of developing country researchers with the skills and reputation to participate in and influence national and international academic and policy debates on poverty issues."
• The quiet struggle: information and libraries for the people of Africa, 2nd ed., by Paul Sturges and Richard Neill (1998) -- London: Mansell ; Leicestershire, UK: Loughborough University, 2005 (1998). PDF format
  
• RAHIA--Recherches en anthropologie et en histoire de l'Afrique CEMAf occasional paper series in anthropology and history of Africa -- Aix-en-Provence, France: Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Université de Provence, 2007-2008.
  En 2007, cette publication remplacé la revue, CLIO en Afrique. "La collection présente les recherches de jeunes (ou de moins jeunes) chercheurs en Anthropologie et en Histoire de l'Afrique dans un souci de valorisation et de dissémination des connaissances en Sciences Humaines et Sociales sur l'Afrique dans une conjoncture plutôt difficile."
• ReSAKSS--Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (International Food Policy Research Institution, Washington, DC)
  Launched in 2007, ReSAKSS is an Africa-wide network offering tools and recent data for analysis of African agricultural development. The website features statistical tables and graphs for each African country--to be viewed online or downloaded, plus Africa-wide working papers, reports, and other publications.
• REPOA: Research on Poverty Alleviation--Publications (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  [Founded in 1995] REPOA undertakes and facilitates research. The website includes information on research activities, publications, online library catalogue, etc.
• Réseau Sénégalais "Droit, Ethique, Santé" (via Refer; Dakar, Sénégal)
  • "[Le Réseau] a été créé pour promouvoir le droit et l'éthique dans le domaine de la santé. Il s'inscrit dans le contexte du développement du réseau 'Droit de la Santé', créé en juillet 2003 par l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)..."
  • Publications et documents en ligne
  • Ressources documentaires
  • Sites utiles sur le Droit de la santé et l'éthique
• Rhodes University eResearch Repository: full-text theses, journal articles, conference papers, etc. (Grahamstown, South Africa)
  
• SAHARA--Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Alliance (via Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Downloadable reports in PDF format. "SAHARA is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation on South Africa, the SADC region and sub-Saharan Africa."
  • See also: SAHARA: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance. (Online) -- Cape Town, South Africa: via Human Sciences Research Council, 2004- Abstracts and excerpts only.
• Sudan Open Archive (Rift Valley Institute, London, UK & Nairobi, Kenya)
  "The first phase of the Archive involved the digitisation of technical reports on aid and development from Operation Lifeline Sudan (1989-2005). A library of contemporary and historical literature on environmental issues was added in 2006; a collection of reports on local peace processes in 2007. They will be followed by further ethnographic writing, grammars and dictionaries of Sudanese languages, and collections of documents in Arabic."
  -- Includes an archive of e-books & documents and an extensive list of web sites
• South Africa. Central Statistical Service (Pretoria)
  • Statistics South Africa Home Page
  • Search for all Stats SA publications
  • Statistics SA Census 2001
  • Statistics SA Digital Census Atlas
• Tralac--Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa: Publications (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
  Publications include downloadable books, working papers, and trade briefs. "Tralac was established in February 2002, with the financial support of the Swiss Department of Economic Development and consists of a core of trade lawyers and economists with high-level expertise in a range of trade and trade-related areas."
• Tufts University: Feinstein International Center -- Publications (Medford, Massachusetts)
  "The Center's research--on the politics and policy of aiding the vulnerable, on protection and rights in crisis situations, and on the restoration of lives and livelihoods--feeds into both its teaching and its long-term partnerships with humanitarian and human rights agencies."
• The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) -- Africa Online Publications (New York)
  
• UNESCO General History of Africa Collection, Volumes I-VIII (Paris, France)
  An open access version of the landmark series is now available in English, Arabic, Swahili, Portuguese, Fulfulde, and Hausa.
• The United Nations University on Africa (via Columbia University)
  Includes links to: the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) conference proceedings, working paper series, and other publications.
• United States Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute: Regional Studies/Sub-Saharan Africa Publications (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
  A small selection of publications (in downloadable PDF) by security analysts since 1993; plus links to the rest of the SSI website.
• Universität Bayreuth, Germany
  List of publications and order information only; plus searchable catalog.
• Universität Bielefeld, The Sociology of Development Research Centre = Forschungsschwerpunkt Entwicklungssoziologie (Bielefeld, Germany)
  This list from a center specializing in African and Southeast Asian studies includes some downloadable papers in PDF format.
• Universität Leipzig, Institut für Afrikanistik--List of Titles & Order Form (Leipzig, Germany)
  
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop: Consortium pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale (Dakar, Sénégal)
  
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop: Département d'Histoire, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Dakar, Sénégal)
  • Ce site comprend une liste des mémoires et des thèses soutenus depuis 1988 (en format PDF), les tables de matières des revues du département, quelques bibliographies et des articles, un repertoire des membres du département, et des informations générales.
    
  • PHARE: Patrimoine & Histoire en Afrique: Recherches & Expériences. (Online) -- Dakar, Sénégal: Département d'Histoire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, 2008-
    
  • Bibliothèque virtuelle du département--Ouvrages
    Cette partie du site comprend plusieurs articles, livres, bibliographies, et le contenu intégral des actes du colloque, AOF: réalités et héritages. Sociétés ouest-africaines et ordre colonial, 1895-1960, Dakar, 16-23 juin 1995.
• Université Gaston-Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal -- Thèses et mémoires sélectionnées Greenstone Digital Library Software (via IRD--Institut de recherche pour le développement, Bondy, Île-de-France)
  
• Université Paris Dauphine, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation): Documents de travail -et- Dialogue: la lettre d'information de DIAL. Paris 10, en collaboration de l'Institut de recherche pour le développement. (France)
  
• Université Paris Diderot, Groupe Afrique -- Océan indien: Publications Paris 7, Laboratoire "Sociétés en développement dans l'espace et dans le temps" (S.E.D.E.T.). (France)
  
• Universiteit Antwerpen, Centrum voor de studie van het gebied van de grote meren in Afrika = Centre d'étude de la région des grands lacs d'Afrique: Publications (Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Voici une inventaire des publications du centre -- y compris les textes intégrals des vieux numéros de l'Annuaire des Grands Lacs et les tables des matières du numéro plus récent. Le site est disponible en néerlandais, en français, ou en anglais.
• University of California Press eScholarship Editions: African Studies Published in association with California Digital Library eScholarship Program. (Berkeley, California)
  Select from Subject List: "African Studies".
  A collection of full-text, online editions of books in African studies (usually without illustrations), including:
  -- Adam, Heribert & Kobila Moodley. The opening of the apartheid mind.
  -- Butler, Jeffrey et al. The black homelands of South Africa...
  -- Crehan, Kate. The fractured community ... rural Zambia.
  -- Clancy-Smith, Julia A. Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904).
  -- Evans, Ivan T. Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa.
  -- Fadiman, Jeffrey. When we began, there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya.
  -- Grinker, Roy Richard. Houses in the rainforest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in central Africa.
  -- Herbst, Jeffrey. The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991.
  -- Launay, Robert G. Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town.
  -- Leonard, David K. African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development.
  -- Ntantala, Phyllis. A life's mosaic: the autobiography of ...
  -- Sharp, Lesley. The possessed and the dispossessed ... Madagascar.
  -- Schroeder, Richard A. Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in The Gambia.
  -- Vail, Leroy. (ed.) The creation of tribalism in southern Africa.
  -- Waltz, Susan E. Human rights and reform: changing the face of North African politics.
  -- Widner, Jennifer A. The rise of a party-state in Kenya...
  -- White, Luise. Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa.
• University of California eScholarship Respository Journals & Peer-Reviewed Series:  "Area studies in search of Africa," by Pearl T. Robinson. (2003) The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines ; UCIAS Edited Volume 3, Article 6. -- Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press and California Digital Library, 2003. 42 pages in PDF format.
  
• University of Calgary African Studies Occasional Papers (Canada)
  Brief abstracts for only a few titles and order information.
• University of Cape Town, School of Economics, Development Policy Research Unit --Publications (South Africa)
  The DPRU publications section includes books and book chapters listed, plus online working and conference papers, policy briefs, and annual reports. "[The Unit] undertakes research in the fields of labour markets, poverty, regional integration and regulation...centers on the following long-term research projects: labour demand and labour supply in South Africa; regional integration in the SADC region."
• University of Edinburgh, The Centre of African Studies (Edinburgh, UK)
  
• University of Helsinki, Institute of Development Studies, Research Project on Finnish Aid in Development -- Working Papers (Helsinki, Finland)
  The papers are mostly on aid in Tanzania; a few on Nepal or generally on Finnish aid.
• University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
  • Centre for Civil Society -- Research Reports
    See also: CCS Online Library
  • School of Development Studies--Publications
    The website includes access to the SDS Resource Centre--download/order "working papers"; SDS newsletter ; policy briefs. See also: the SDS home page.
• University of Nigeria, Nsukka -- Research Documents (Nigeria)
  The university scans and makes available on the Internet hundreds of seminar and conference papers, journal articles, selected books by UNN faculty, and UNN theses (primarily Masters' theses in various fields and some doctoral dissertations in the fields of Law or The Arts, from the 1980s to the present).
• University of Pretoria: Centre for the Study of AIDS (South Africa)
  The website includes downloadable research reports and news from the Centre, UN agencies, and news agencies. "[Established in 1999] the Centre operates ...to plan for, and cope with, the impact that HIV/AIDS is likely to have on the institution and the tertiary sector as a whole."
• University of Pretoria: Institute for Strategic Studies -- Research Articles in UPSpace (South Africa)
  
• University of Sussex, Institute of Development Studies -- Publications (Brighton, UK)
  For African topics, see especially: the IDS working papers and the IDS discussion papers.
• University of Wisconsin, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Land Tenure Center: Publications (Madison, Wisconsin)
  Only some titles are available online; the rest must be ordered.
• University of the Witwatersrand, South African Institute of International Affairs: Occasional papers, trade policy briefings & reports, eAfrica, SADC Barometer, SAIIA Foreign Policy Monitor
  (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  An archive of research papers and newsletters from SAIIA since 2001 in PDF formats.
• Women and Law in Southern Africa Mozambique (Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust, Maputo, Mozambique)
  • "A missão da WLSA Moçambique é contribuir para identificar e disseminar os contextos favoráveis, as áreas críticas e os obstáculos no que respeita á igualdade de direitos e oportunidades entre mulheres e homens no país, propiciando a mudança na lei e nas políticas públicas, no acesso e administração da justiça, e nas práticas sociais."
  • Género e democracia: as eleições de 2009 em Moçambique (2010) para Conceição Osório. -- Maputo: WLSA Mozambique, 2010. 260 pages in PDF format
  • Outras vozes. (Online) Boletim da WLSA Moçambique -- Maputo: WLSA Mozambique, 2002-
  • Rebuilding lives: the strategies of women survivors of domestic violence. (2007) Organized by Maria José Arthur and Margarita Mejia. -- Maputo: WLSA Mozambique, 2007. 177 pages in PDF format
  • Subverting political power?: gender analysis of the 2004 legislative elections in Mozambique. (2007) By Conceição Osório. -- Maputo: WLSA Mozambique, 2007. 153 pages in PDF format
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• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars -- Africa Program: Publications (Washington, DC)
  --See also: Wilson Center On Demand -- Africa: a video archive of events on US Africa policy.