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• The Africa Center: Digital Library of Exhibition Catalogs from The Center for African Art and The Museum for African Art, New York (New York)
  "...a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institution, provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa....will host visual, performing, and digital arts presentations; develop and disseminate innovative educational tools; convene focused, thoughtful peer-to-peer exchanges; and sponsor results-oriented policy research."
  --About the Center
• Africa Freedom of Information Centre (Kampala, Uganda)
  "...a pan-African, membership-based civil society network and resource centre promoting the right of access to information, transparency and accountability across Africa. We do this by supporting national advocacy with comparative research, capacity strengthening, and technical support; by monitoring treaty compliance and implementation; and by leading continental and global advocacy."
  --See especially: Freedom of Information Laws--By Country ; Reports and Publications -and- News
• 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 Leadership Forum (Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria)
  • "The forum grew out of the need to assist in improving the capacity and competence of African leaders to tackle development challenges confronting Africa...A range of high-level conferences, seminars, workshops and publications."
• 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; South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  A digital library of over 5000 books, journals, and documents related to African policy issues; a directory of experts; plus, news analysis and opinion articles.
• Africa Research Institute -- Publications (London, UK)
  "[Since 2007] ARI informs domestic and international policymaking by promoting best practice and progressive ideas for government, the economy and civil society."
• 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 Cities (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  "The ACC conducts a series of applied research programmes in Cape Town, South Africa and significant parts of Africa."
  --See especially: Papers
  --See also: National Income Dynamics Study--Corona Virus Rapid Mobile Survey, July 15, 2020
• ACET--African Centre for Economic Transformation (Accra, Ghana)
  "We focus on the 'how-to' of policy reform, going beyond the traditional role of a think tank to ensure our research is accessed by the right people at the right time to accelerate the transformation agenda."
  --See especially: African Transformation Report (2014, 2017, and 2021)
  --Plus: Country Reports and Multi-Country Studies
• 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 Cities Research Consortium (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
  • "The African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) is a major six-year investment (2020-2026) by FCDO (UK Aid) to fund new, operationally-relevant research to address intractable development challenges in African cities."
  • ACRC Publications: articles and briefings on the impact of COVID-19 ; City Scoping studies ; Working papers ; etc.
  • Project Cities: Accra, Addis Ababa, Bukavu, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Lilongwe, Maiduguri, Mogadishu, and Nairobi.
  • Annotated bibliography on urban politics and political economy in African cities. (December 2021) By Lewis Abedi Asante. ACRC working paper 2021-03 ; 211 pages in PDF format.
    
  • ACRC News
• African Economic History Network--Working Papers
  "Founded in 2011, the network is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa, from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial era. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden."
  --See also: AEH Network Data & Research
  
• 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.
• AFIDEP--African Institute for Development Policy (Nairobi, Kenya; Lilongwe, Malawi)
  "...an international non-profit policy think tank whose mission is to translate and enable utilisation of research evidence in policy-making in the fields of Population Change and Sustainable Development, Health Systems Strengthening, Education and Skills Development (Transformative Education) and Strengthening Capacity for demand and use of research evidence in policy-making spaces in Africa."
  --See especially: AFIDEP 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 Minds -- Publications  (Cape Town, South Africa) "Open Access Publisher"
  
  • News and reviews
    
  • Citizenship law in Africa: a comparative study. 3rd edition. By Bronwyn Manby. (New York, NY ; Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2016)
    
  • Election management bodies in East Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy ; a review by AfriMAP and the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. [Compiled by] Alexander B. Makulilo ...[et al.]. (New York, NY ; Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2016)
    
  • Election management bodies in Southern Africa : comparative study of the electoral commissions' contribution to electoral processes / a review by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and ECF-SADC. (Johannesbug, South Africa : OSISA ; Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2016)
  • Election management bodies in West Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy. [Compiled by] Ismaila Madior Fall ... [et al.]. (Dakar : Open Society Foundations ; South Africa : distrib. by African Minds, c2012)
  • Student politics in Africa: representation and activism. Edited by Thierry M Luescher, Manja Klemenčič & James Otieno Jowi. (Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, c2016)
    
• 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."
  --See especially: All APHRC publications
• African Women's Development Fund Repository (AWDF, Accra, Ghana)
  An open access document library for this development-oriented, philanthropic organization based in Africa. "In the year 2000, three women, Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Joana Foster and Hilda Tadria created a philanthropic organisation focused on making measurable change in African women’s lives...Since 2001 AWDF has worked to build relationships with, and mobilise resources for over 1,300 women’s organisations in 45 countries Africa and the Middle East."
• 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
• AfriHeritage--African Heritage Institution (Enugu, Nigeria)
  • "[AfiHeritage] formerly known as African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE) was incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee in Nigeria in 2000. It is a not-for-profit, non-partisan and independent organization devoted to economic research, capacity building and networking."
  • Policy briefs
  • Research paper series
  • AIEA newsletter. (Online) -- Enugu, Nigeria: AIEA, 2006 to present.
• 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.
• Agence Française de Développement -- Ressources (République Française, Paris)
  Rechercher par pays en "Afrique"
• 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 via START (Washington, DC ; Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Completed in 2007: eleven of the AIACC projects and a substantial number of reports are on Africa. "AIACC [was] 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
  • See also: START International below
• American Association for the Advancement of Science -- Online Publications on Africa--Archived Papers (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.  -- via UNESCO HIV and Health Education Clearinghouse, Paris, France.
    
  • 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. --via University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
    
• American Economic Association -- Selected Articles on Africa (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
  • "Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa." (Summer 2021) By Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Journal of economic perspectives. vol. 35, no 3 (2021)
  • "This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa." (June 2017) By Nicolas Berman ..[et al.]. American economic review. vol 107, no. 6 (2017)
  • All AEA "Articles" on Africa
• 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--Publications (Boston, Massachusetts)
  
• The Brookings Institution: Africa Growth Initiative (Washington, DC)
  News, event information, and reports from this US-based think tank, with partners in Africa. "...brings together African scholars to provide policymakers with high-quality research, expertise and innovative solutions that promote Africa's economic development."
  --See: Africa in Focus (blog posts)
  --Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2018 120 pages in PDF format
  --Plus: Foresight Africa (past issues)
  --See also: Middle East and North Africa
• 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 des Mondes Africains, Universite I, Paris--Archive ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société HALSHS (France)
  Une archive des travaux par les chercheurs de l'ancien CEMAf.  En janvier 2014, L’Institut des mondes africains (IMAF) a été créé par la fusion de trois laboratoires : le Centre d’études des mondes africains (CEMAf), le Centre d’études africaines (CEAf) et le Centre d’histoire sociale de l’islam méditerranéen (CHSIM).
• Centre d'études des mondes africains: Yves Person historien: son oeuvre sur l'Afrique et la Bretagne (Dr. Charles Becker, Marina Lafay, et allii, via Hypotheses.org, Paris, France)
  Le blog comprend une bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Person, des liens à un recueil de textes choisis d'Yves Person qui sont disponible en ligne, un inventaire du fond d'archives Person, et l'information sur un colloque international en juin 2013. "Le carnet vise à promouvoir l’oeuvre de l'historien français Yves Person, d'en rappeler les apports et de communiquer en amont et en aval du colloque 'Yves Person (1925-1982', un historien de l’Afrique” qui aura lieu les 20 et 21 juin 2013 au CEMAf..."
  --Veuillez voir le programme du colloque international
• Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle: Revue africaine des livres = Africa Review of Books. (Online) -- Oran, Algeria: CRASC, 2004-
  "Its objective is to introduce the books published by young authors to a wide audience...It also aims to drive out the Afro-pessimism wave that has begun to prevail in some Western circles."
• Centre de Recherche Cultures, Santé, Sociétés (2010)  (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)--Archive Bulletin d'information bimestriel. -- Aix-en-Provence, France: CRECSS, 2005-2010.
• Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa -- Reports (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 (Oxford, UK)
  
  • Working papers series
    
  • Data sets (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,Tanzania)
• Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (Abuja, Nigeria)
  • "CSEA...is an independent non-profit research organization established in April 2008 by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-lweala,former Managing Director, World Bank, and also Nigeria’s past Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Honourable Minister of Finance."
  • All CSEA Publications
  • Nigeria Economic Updates, 2014 to present
• 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 -- Publications (2014) (Nairobi, Kenya)
• Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health: ICAP--International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program--Publications (New York)
  --See also: ICAP Updates: program news

 

• 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).'
  • Page d'accueil = Home page
  • Publications and communications, including CODESRIA online journals: CODESRIA bulletin. (Online) --and-- Africa development. (Online)
  • Monographs, Policy Briefs, and Working Papers
    
  • Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations Sponsored by CODESRIA, 1988-2015
    
• 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:  SubSaharan Africa -and- Middle East & North Africa  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.
• 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 Working papers
  • Policy perspective (policy briefs)
  • ERF conferences & workshops
  • ERF open access "data portal"
• ERSA--Economic Research Southern Africa (Cape Town, South Africa)
  "...a research programme funded by the National Treasury of South Africa."
  See especially: ERSA Publications
• 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."
• European Union Institute for Security Studies on Africa (Paris, France) Since 2002
  • African spaces: the new geopolitical frontlines. (March 2022)
  • African futures 2030: free trade, peace, and prosperity. (March 2021)
  • African futures: Horizon 2025. (October 2017)
  • Understanding African armies. (April 2016)
  • The EU and Africa: a changing security partnership. (February 2016)
• 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)
• Forum for Social Studies (FSS) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • [Registered in 1998] "A group of Ethiopian researchers, academics, and professionals has taken the initiative to establish an independent research institution. The main objective of FSS will be to undertake in-depth research on issues of development and social change in Ethiopia, and to provide a public forum for the discussion of such issues."
  • FSS Publications (all)
    
  • "Land, landlessness and poverty in Ethiopia: research findings from four regions. Proceedings of the workshop organized by the Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, July 2016. Edited by Dessalegn Rahmato. -- Addis Ababa: FSS, [2018]
    
  • "Digest of Ethiopia's national policies, strategies, and programs." (2008) Edited by Taye Assefa. Addis Ababa: FSS, [2008]
    
  • "Searching for tenure security?: the land system and new policy initiatives in Ethiopia." By Dessalegn Rahmato (August 2004) FSS discussion paper.
    
  • "Listening to the poor: a study based on selected rural and urban sites in Ethiopia," by Aklilu Kidanu and Dessalegn Rahmato (May 2000) FSS discussion paper.
    
  • "Water resource development in Ethiopia: issues of sustainability and participation," by Dessalegn Rahmato (June 1999) FSS discussion paper.
    
  • Brief papers (via MediaEthiopia)
    
    -- "Think tanks in Ethiopia?" by Dessalegn Rahmato
    -- "The social reformers of early twentieth century Ethiopia" by Bahru Zewde
• France. Agence française de développement sur l'Afrique subsaharienne (Paris)
  • On peut chercher les publications ici
    
  • Veillez voir aussi: Africapolis: étude de l'urbanisation en Afrique de l'Ouest (1950-2020) = Urbanization study in West Africa, published in 2009: final analytical report, atlas, country sheets, executive summary, and brief results summary.

 

 

• Gents Afrika Platform, Universiteit Gent: AfrikaFocus. (Online) -- Ghent, Belgium: GAP ; Afrika Brug, 2012--
  Originally appeared in print in 1985, the current open access web site for this bi-annual, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal -- in French and in English -- offers issues since 2012 only.
  --For older issues, see also: Directory of Open Access Journals archive (1985 to present)
• Geological Survey of Namibia, Downloadable Publications (Windhoek, Namibia)
  
• Ghana Center for Democratic Development (Accra, Ghana)
  The website offers general and contact information about the center's research programme; plus abstracts and order information on CDD working papers and briefs. "The Center is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization ... dedicated to the promotion of society and government based on the rule of law, appropriate checks on the power of the state, and integrity in public administration." 
  --See especially: Publications
• 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)
  
  • Center for Population and Development -- Working Papers, 1990 to present
  • Center for International Development -- Publications.
  • Harvard Humanitarian Initiative---Resources
    Search for "Africa" -or- by country in the digital library of open access publications. "... brings an interdisciplinary approach to promoting understanding of humanitarian crisis as a unique contributor to global health problems and to developing evidence-based approaches to humanitarian assistance."
• 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."
• HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies (Nairobi, Kenya)
  "...a non-profit, applied research, and policy think-do tank."
  --See especially: Publications
• 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.

 

 

• Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (Lusaka, Zambia)
  "Established in October 2011, the IAPRI is a non-profit Zambian company limited by guarantee which collaboratively works with public and private stakeholders in the agricultural sector."
  --See especially: IAPRI Policy Briefs ; IAPRI Working Papers
• Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (Dakar, Sénégal)
  "L'IPAR cherche à contribuer au processus de développement économique et social du Sénégal et de la sous-région par la création d’un espace d’échanges et de débat adossé sur une recherche stratégique et prospective rigoureuse, connectée aux préoccupations des décideurs et des populations à la base."
  --Veuillez voir surtout: Bibliothèque numérique -et- Publications
  --Veuillez voir aussi: Etudes sur les effets de la COVID-19
  
• 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."
• IFRA Nairobi: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (Nairobi, Kenya)
  •  "[IFRA]...est une institution dépendante du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes, rattachée à l'Ambassade de France au Kenya."
  • Publications de l'IFRA Nairobi
• IFRA Nigeria: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
  • "...a non-for-profit Institute set up to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa. First established in 1990, the Institute is operating from the Universities of Ibadan (Institute of African Studies) and Zaria (Post Graduate School) since 2006."
  • IFRA Nigeria publications : e-books and e-papers
• 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 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: IGD Reports, 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."
  • South African Reconciliation Barometer Project
    "Since 2003, the IJR's Political Analysis programme has conducted [the survey]: an annual national public opinion poll that measures citizen attitudes towards reconciliation, transformation and national unity in post-apartheid South Africa...through six key indicators: human security, political culture, cross-cutting political relations, race relations, historical confrontation and dialogue."
    --See: SA Reconciliation Barometer Survey 2012 | 2013 | 2014
• Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University -- Publications (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
• 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 African Institute, University of London: African Digital Research Repositories, August 2021. School of Oriental & African Studies. (London, UK)
  
• International Centre for Tax and Development---Publications (Brighton, UK)
  Funded by DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
  "[Established in November 2010]...a global policy research network, devoted to improving the quality of tax policy and administration in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa."
  --See also: Datasets
• International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region = Réseau documentaire international sur la région des Grands Lacs africains Réseau Grands Lacs Africains (via Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 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 2009.
• 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
  • Global Hunger Index (2015)
    "...designed to raise awareness and understanding of regional and country differences in the struggle against hunger."
  • IFPRI Resources: 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)
  • Search Africa
  • 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)
  • Urban
  • Forests
  • Regoverning Markets -- Publoications (IIED, in association with International Farming Systems Research Methodology Network, and the Royal Tropical Institute--The Netherlands)
• International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague: LDPI--Land Deal Politics Initiative Working Papers Series (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
  --See also: Publications of PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South 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.
• International Labour Organization -- Publications on Africa (Geneva, Switzerland)
• 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.
• International Science Council--Regional Office for Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
  "The ISC was created in 2018 as the result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC)...[The Regional Office for Africa] was established in September 2005 and is hosted by the South African National Research Foundation in Pretoria."
  --See especially: ISC-ROA Science Plans and Annual Reports

 

 

• KIPPRA: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis -- Publications -and- Research Ouput (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 open access e-books and other publications on human rights and legal issues relevant to Namibia and other African countries. "KAS helps to consolidate the democratic constitution and the political and socio-economic participation of disadvantaged groups (women) in Namibia through socio-political educational and training programmes."

 

 

• London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)
  • Crisis States Research Network -- Publications
  • How Africa Trades. (2023) Edited by David Luke. -- London: LSE Press, 2023. Open access e-book

 

 

• Madarevues: le portail des revues scientifiques malgaches (Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Antannarivo, Madagascar)
  Un archive des articles des plus importantes revues de Madagascar qui sont interrogeables et téléchargeables en format PDF. Les archives comprend les vieux numéros des revues: Omaly Sy Anio ; Civilisation Malgache, série Sciences Humaines ; Annales de l'Université de Madagascar ; Revue médicale de Madagascar ; etc.
• 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--Working Papers  -and-  Briefing Notes & Special Reports  
• Makerere University Institute of Social Research--Publications (Kampala, Uganda)
  "The Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) is the former East African Institute of Social Research (EAISR), which was established in 1948...MISR regained its semi-autonomous status (independence from the Faculty of Social Sciences) in 1994." Publications include annual reports, papers and presentations by staff, research fellows, and guest speakers, and event announcements.
• Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
  • Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
    -- Food Security Group
    -- FSG Publications, since January 2017 | before 2017 (Archive)
    -- International Development Working Papers (IDP) since January 2017
    -- Agricultural Economics-MSU Home Page (General)
  • MSU's Center for Gender in Global Context
    -- Gender Perspectives on International Development: Working Papers
    -- Center Home Page
• MAFE--Migration between Africa and Europe (Louvain, Belgium)
  The Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve sponsors this site for a group of 10 organizations. "The MAFE project focuses on migration flows between Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK) and Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana, which together account for over a quarter of all African migration to the EU."
  ---See especially: MAFE Project Working Papers, 2009-2015
• 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 all publications
  • Monographs of the DR Congo Provinces
    
  • Inventory of The Stanley Archives (430 p.)
  • 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.)

 

 

• 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 (General)
    
  • Publications (search by country)
    
• Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)--Publications (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 Monitoring Programme in West Africa (2011)  -- Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA and OSIWA, 2011.
    
  • WACSI--West Africa Civil Society Institute--Publications (Accra, Ghana)
    Newsletters and reports. "...to strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of CSOs."

 

 

• PANOS Global South Network (London, UK)
  • PANOS Network Publications (Global)
  • Panos Eastern Africa: The role of media in child protection...Uganda (2013) -- Kampala, Uganda: Panos Eastern Africa, 2013. 63 pages in PDF format
  • Panos Institute West Africa
    • PANOS Institute West Africa = Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest
      --Publications en anglais ou en français
    • The African charter on broadcasting: a review of its impact in West Africa. (2010) -- Dakar, Senegal: The Institute, 2010. 233 pages in PDF format.
    • Challenges and perspectives of digital migration for African media. (2010) By Guy Berger. -- Dakar, Senegal: The Institute, 2010. 51 pages in PDF format
  • Panos London Archives: At the desert's edge: oral histories from the Sahel Edited by Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker. (London, UK)
    An e-book version of the 1992 book of translated interviews from Sahelian inhabitants across West and Eastern Africa during the 1980s.
• 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) -- S.l. : The authors, 1998, c2004. 249 pages in PDF format ; via Omnie Interactive.

 

 

• 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--Research Reports (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  [Founded in 1995] REPOA undertakes and facilitates research. The website includes information on research activities, publications, online library catalogue, etc.
  --See also: REPOA Briefs
  
• Rhodes University eResearch Repository: full-text theses, journal articles, conference papers, etc. (Grahamstown, South Africa)
  

 

 

• SERI : Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  "...a non-profit organisation providing professional and dedicated socio-economic rights assistance to individuals, communities and social movements in South Africa. SERI conducts applied research, engages with government, advocates for policy and legal reform, facilitates civil society coordination and mobilisation, conducts popular education and training, and litigates in the public interest. The SERI Law Clinic is registered as a public interest law centre."
  --See especially: Research reports ; Working papers ; and, Other publications
• Social Science Research Council--African Peacebuilding Network (New York)
  "Launched in March 2012...supports independent African research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions of the continent, as well as the integration of African knowledge into global policy communities."
  --See especially: Recent APN Publications : APN Policy Briefing Notes; and, APN working papers
• SARDC--Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (Harare, Zimbabwe)
  • "...an independent regional knowledge resource centre established in 1985 to strengthen regional policy perspectives and track implementation on a range of issues in southern Africa, and works in partnership at national and regional levels."
  • "Virtual Library": all online publications
  • Southern Africa today. (Online) SADC today -- Harare, Zimbabwe: Published by SARDC for the SADC Secretariat, 1997-
  • SARDC Energy Investment Yearbook 2018. 40 pages in PDF format
  • SADC Summit Yearbooks, 2014 to present
    
  • SADC Energy Monitor 2018. 74 pages in PDF format
    
  • SADC Gender and Development Monitor 2018. 120 pages in PDF format
  • The Zambezi Watercourse Commission. (2015)
  • Southern African Environment Outlook. (2008) -- Harare, Zimbabwe: SARDC, 2008. 196 pages in PDF format
    
  
  
• South Africa. Central Statistical Service (Pretoria)
  • Statistics South Africa Home Page
  • Search for all Stats SA publications
  • Search for all Stats SA publications
  • Official Stats SA Census Portal
  • Census 2022. Statistical release. 113 pages in PDF format
  • Census 2022. Provinces at a glance. 86 pages in PDF format
  • Census 2022. Post-enumeration Survey (PES) Statistical release. 67 pages in PDF format
  • SA Census 2011
  • SA Community Survey 2007
  • Statistics SA Census 2001
• 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

 

 

• Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development Egerton University (Nairobi, Kenya)
  Founded in 1995
  • Publications: working papers, policy briefs, etc.
  • Conference proceedings, 2004-2010
  • Workshop presentations, 2009-2012
• 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 de Dakar, Sénégal
  • Bibliothèque Numérique Université Cheikh Anta Diop
    Remarquez: en raison de la capacité du serveur, il se peut qu'on attende un petit moment pour accéder aux documents. "La bibliothèque numérique comprend plusieurs collections de documents: les thèses et les mémoires déposés à la bibliothèque, depuis la création de l'université le 24 février 1957 ; des articles publiés par les enseignants et chercheurs de l'Université; des publications de l'Université; des Ouvrages rares et précieux."
  • Consortium pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop: Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Transformations Economiques et Sociales  (Dakar, Sénégal)
  "LARTES est spécialisé dans l’analyse des changements socio-économiques, de la pauvreté et la protection sociale et l’accompagnement des intervenants du développement. Il est l’un des laboratoires de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN) rattachés à la formation doctorale 'Sciences sociales appliquées au développement' au sein de l’Ecole Doctorale Etudes sur l’Homme et la Société (ETHOS).
  --Veuillez voir surtout les publications:
  Articles
  Livres
  Etudes de cas
  Rapports de recherches
  Policy briefs
• 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, South Africa
  • The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance
    --See especially: Conference papers and reports -and- Working papers
  • Development Policy Research Unit --Publications School of Economics
    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 Sussex, Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, UK)
  • IDS working papers
  • IDS Focus Policy briefs
  • All IDS Publications
• University of the Western Cape, PLAAS--Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies: Publications (Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa)
  --See also: LDPI Working Paper Series (via International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands)
• 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
  • Mais publicações
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars -- Africa Program: Publications (Washington, DC)
  --Plus, search by country in: Watch & Listen, an audio and video archive of events.