UTM Primary Sources: Digital Collections

For example, Nigeria, Ghana, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Democratic Republic), Rwanda, Algeria, Kenya, and South Africa.

SOURCE LIBRARY: National Archives (U.S.)
— Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910–1929
— German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa 1910–1929
— French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910–1930
— Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930–1939

Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People’s Revolutionary Party; this collection provides two views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles.

Part of Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online
The collection includes, for example,
— Colonial Africa Newspapers from the British Library, 1821-1922
— African Mail, 1845-1917
— Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Cape Town, Cape Colony, 1800-1906; Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1906; Gaboon, 1856-1888; Bathurst, Gambia, British Africa, 1857-1889; Grand Bassa, Liberia, 1868-1882; Goree Dakar, French Africa, 1883-1906; Boma, Congo, 1888-1895
— African World, 1905-1913
— 19th Century Travel Literature
Highlights of the collection include works on Africa from early British and French expedition accounts to early-twentieth-century colonial narratives and documents

[Alexander Street] The collection provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide from 1900 to 2010. Primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event include: Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994) and so forth.

[JSTOR] The collection focuses on the varies liberation struggles in the region during the Apartheid regime, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The sub-collections consist of primary source materials focusing on colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, and international intervention. Materials include periodicals, pamphlets, UN documents, photographs, speeches, and many other resources.

[JSTOR] This collection includes: visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. Spatial data include 3D models and plans of grounds, GIS landscapes, and digital video. Contextual data includes site-related research such as excavation reports, site plans, unpublished private and national archives, and traveller's accounts from the 17th to 19th century. Key sub-collections include the Heinz Rüther Collections and the Kilwa Archive.

[Wilson Center: Digital Archive - International History Declassified] Cuban documents about Havana's policy toward Southern Africa in the final fifteen years of the Cold War.

[Newsbank] This collection features 64 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901.
See the title list.
Online access to ten newspapers published in Djibouti, Egypt, Ghana, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.

See the title list.
Online access to ten newspapers published in Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

The collection provides insight into this region during this critical time, featuring key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s. This growing collection currently includes three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda).

PERIOD COVERED: 1993–December 31, 2013
The WNC was collected by U.S. intelligence from unclassified, open sources around the world and administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service. News include, for example,
— Kenya (Africa Review, Daily Nation/East African, East African Standard, KBC Radio, KBC Television, KTN Television, The People, UN Integrated Regional Information Network),
— Nigeria (Channels Television, Daily Trust, Gamji, The News, Newswatch, Radio Nigeria, Radio Rivers 2, Rhythm FM, Silver Bird Television, Vision FM, Voice of Biafra, etc.)
— Rwanda (Rwanda News Agency),
— Uganda (Chimpreports, The Monitor, The New Vision, The Sunday Vision)

[Center for Research Libraries (CRL)] PERIOD COVERED: from the late 19th century through the present
Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, both World Wars, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the recent Arab Spring.
Content in MENA Newspapers is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French, featuring titles such as Al-Iqbal (Lebanon), Al Akhaa al Watani (Iraq), Tangier Gazette(Morocco), and La Vérité (Algeria).

Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson. Johnson intended it to be a Black version of Henry Luce's Life magazine.
Featuring Black celebrities, Ebony has served as an influential African-American magazine promoting stories important to the black community and focusing on the achievements of African-American leaders. This magazine covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus.

This tells of a courtier's adventures after he flees Egypt. Other works include stories of fantastic wonders from the court of the builder of the Great Pyramid, a lyrical dialogue between a man and his soul on the nature of death and the problem of suffering, and teachings about the nature of virtue and wisdom, one of which is bitterly spoken from the grave by the assassinated king Amenemhat I, founder of the Twelfth Dynasty.

[Alexander Street] The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.

[Alexander Street] These collectors’ bodies of work contain some of regional music on record, including Hugh Tracey’s survey of southern and central African music, the Sound of Africa Series (International Library of African Music, Rhodes University), and the Louis Sarno Archive, Music from the Central African Rainforest (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford).

The collection includes over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Testimonies are from the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.

SOURCE LIBRARY: Library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia
Presbyterian mission work in Africa commenced in 1833 and throughout the l9th century expanded to several different areas therein. These included: Liberia, 1833-94; Corsico, 1850-75; Spanish Guinea, 1865-1924, 1932: Gaboon, 1871-92; Ogowe, 1874-92; and the Cameroon, 1889-1972.

This collection includes
— African Missions
··· Papers of the Missions of the United Presbyterian Church from the National Library of Scotland
— African Missions, Education and the Road to Independence
··· The SUM in Nigeria, The Cameroons, Chad, Sudan, and Other African Territories
— Congo Mission Archives
··· The Papers of Bishop Ridsdale (1916-2000), Missionary to the Eastern Congo, from the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide