African Studies

published 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.

"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."

An "electronic archive of spoken and written Popular Swahili texts."

Monographs, 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.

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 U-M faculty, staff, and students.

University of Michigan's catalog.

"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."

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.

The microfilm collection can be searched through the catalog.

The Center is ""dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction."

"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."

"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.

Primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

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.