Research Librarian for History and Religious Studies
Welcome!
Welcome to the African Studies research guide at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (UVA). The resources included here can help you to orient your research regarding a variety of topics concerning Africa. For additional help, contact your librarian.
This guide is being constructed in collaboration with UVA affiliates and remains under construction.
Start here!
- Africa-Wide Information This link opens in a new windowCompiled by NISC in South Africa, Africa-Wide Information is an aggregation of nearly 50 databases sourced from Africa, Europe and the U.S. This comprehensive database collection integrates content from NISC’s South African Studies, African Studies and African HealthLine databases. Africa-Wide Information provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary information documenting research and publications by Africans and about Africa. This database comprises more than 3.5 million media reports, scholarly articles, books, theses, citations and document abstracts dating back to the 16th century.
- IrokoTVA fee-driven digital service that provides Nigerian films for streaming on demand.
- Sabinet African Journals This link opens in a new windowThe Sabinet Complete Collection is the largest aggregation of African journals, news, and government information. The platform includes over 185,000 articles from 532 African refereed and peer-reviewed journals from 1910 to the present, as well as South African news, and Government, Labor, and Law information.
UVA has access to most content.