Subject Guide
Loyd Mbabu
Contact:
214 -C Hatcher Grad. Library North
Phone: (734) 764-7289
FAX: (734) 764-0259
Phone: (734) 764-7289
FAX: (734) 764-0259
Collections & Catalogs
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Africana Digitization Projectpublished by the Libraries of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dates covered: ca. 1526-1680. Digitized titles include: Brief Treatise on the Rivers of Guinea, c. 1594; Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617.
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Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu"These manuscripts, surviving from as long ago as the fourteenth century, are remarkable artifacts important to Malian and West African culture. The exhibited manuscripts date from the sixteenth to eighteenth century."
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Archives of Popular SwahiliAn "electronic archive of spoken and written Popular Swahili texts."
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Black Thought and CultureMonographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature and art.
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Lemuel A Johnson Library (CAAS)The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) Lemuel Johnson Library is a reference and referral library designed to support the curriculum and general information needs of UM faculty, staff, and students.
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Library Catalog SearchUniversity of Michigan's catalog.
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Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu"From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies."
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The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)promotes the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and makes these materials in microform available to researchers.
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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University)The Center is ""dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction."
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The Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960"the collection depicts the breadth of African experience, documents African life, European life in Africa in all its manifestations and the African landscape, in particular as it changed over time."
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Warren Collection"Using slides, film, and video Professor Warren documented the rich cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge of Africa." Selected slides are digitized and are available online.
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WORLDCAT (OCLC Online Union Catalog) [FirstSearch]Over 40 million citations to books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, musical scores, archival materials and much more, representing holdings of most libraries in North America and some in Europe.