AfricaBib [Database]The Africana Periodical Literature database provides metadata of articles on Africa covering a wide range of topics, from geography, history and anthropology to agriculture, women's studies, medicine and health. It currently (January 2020) contains more than 179,000 records from over 800 journals. The majority of the journals are in English or French. A smaller number is in German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. There is a strong focus on journals published in Africa. More than 50,800 articles have a link to full text, and more than 75,800 articles have an abstract.
Africana Periodical Literature as it stands at present is an amalgamation of four separate sources:
• The original Africana Periodical Literature database, compiled by Davis Bullwinkle from 1974 to 2008, containing metadata of over 60,000 English-language articles on Africa from over 500 periodicals published worldwide;
• The Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (QIAPL), created and maintained by the Overseas Office of the American Library of Congress in Nairobi from 1991 to 2011, containing metadata of over 50,000 articles from over 750 mostly scholarly periodicals published in Subsaharan Africa;
• Metadata of over 83,000 articles from the African Studies Centre Leiden's library catalogue, which dates back to the mid-1950s and which fed the Centre's abstracts journal African Studies Abstracts Online until November 2017;
• Since 2015 Pedro Pinto has been contributing more than 4700 records on Portuguese history in Africa, and African Studies in general, and continues to do so..