Research Guides: African Studies: Collections & Catalogs

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Africana Digitization Project
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.

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

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Black Thought and Culture
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.

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Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).
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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Some parts of this resource may be limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).
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University of Michigan's catalog.
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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Free access to all users.
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.

The microfilm collection can be searched through the catalog.

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Founded in 1963, CAMP is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The University of Michigan is a CAMP member. CAMP collection is part of CRL collections. Free access to CRL on line catalog.
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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Free access to digitized sample images. For onsite access contact Herskovits Library at Northwestern University.
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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"The Warren Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries includes 4,229 books, 3,738 slides, 107 videos, 138 project files and note cards."
World Digital Library (WDL)
Primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

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Resources include manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings
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.

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Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).