Africa south of the Sahara. Annual. (London: Europa, 1971-)
Africa yearbook online. (Leiden: Brill, 2004-)
African Biography on the Internet. (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries.)
African folklore: an encyclopedia. Edited by Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah. New York : Routledge, 2004. (593 p.)
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Barton, Thomas George. Sexuality and health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Berkeley, Calif. : T.G. Barton, 1991.
Black leaders in southern African history. Ed. by Christopher Saunders. (London: Heinemann, 1979) [Pre-20th century leaders, except for one.]
Brockman, Norbert C. An African biographical dictionary. 2nd ed. (New York: Grey House, c2006)
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Dictionary of African biography. 6 vols. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors in chief. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012)
Encyclopedia of African history. 3 v. Ed. by Kevin Shillington. (New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005)
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Encyclopedia of Islam. 3rd ed. online. (Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 2004-)
Requires a special font.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Edited by Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007).
Europa world plus. (New York, NY : Routledge ; Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-)
Select "Africa South of the Sahara" or "Middle East and North Africa"
Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history. E-book
Editor in chief, Howard Chiang ; associate editors, Anjali Aronekar [and six others]. (Farmington Hills, Michigan : Charles Scribner's Sons, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2019])
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Historical Dictionary series. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ ; Lanham, MD)
Most recent editions are in Lehman Library Reference, near "Global Studies". For a dictionary of one country, search in CLIO, with "All fields" in "Advanced Search", and use [current name of country] and "historical dictionary".
The Middle East and North Africa. Annual. (London: Europa, 1995-)
New encyclopedia of Africa, 5 vols. Editor in chief, John Middleton; editor, Joseph C. Miller. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2008 .
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Ntarangwi, Mwenda. Children and youth in Africa : annotated bibliography 2001-2011. Dakar : Codesria, c2014.
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Oke, Olufunke A. From conference to conference : a bibliography of African women and development, 1980-1995. Ibadan : Rex Charles Publication, 2001.
Oxford African American Studies Center. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008-
Content includes: Africana (5 volumes); Encyclopedia of African American history; Black women in America--2nd edition; and, the African American national biography.
Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press)
--Select "African Studies" ; or, see especially:
The Oxford encyclopedia of African historiography : methods and sources. Thomas Spear, editor in chief. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2019)
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The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought. Editors in chief, F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo.
2 vols. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Oxford research encyclopedias--African history (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press)
- Scholarly essays, with extensive bibliographic references, on a wide variety of topics in the field...such as "Women in...[name of country]" ; and...
- African Feminist Thought. By Amina Mama.
- African Market Women, Market and Merchant Queens. By Gracia Clark.
- African Masculinities. By Ndubueze L. Mbah.
- African Women in Art. By Nomusa Makhubu.
- African Women in Film, the Moving Image and Screen Culture. By Beti Ellerson.
- Amazons of Dahomey. By Agbenyega Adedze.
- Archaeology of Gender. By Lyn Wadley.
- Bibi Titi Mohamed. By Chambi Chachage & Jacqueline Mgumia.
- Buchi Emecheta. By Chika Unigwe.
- Casely-Hayford, Adelaide and Gladys. By LaRay Denzer.
- Childhood and Youth in African History. By S. E. Duff.
- Fatima Mernissi. By Raja Rhouni.
- Funmilayo (Anikulapo) Ransome-Kuti. By Cheryl Johnson-Odim.
- HIV/AIDS in South Africa. By Rebecca Hodes.
- Lilian Ngoyi. By Iris Berger.
- Mariama Ba. By Souad T. Ali.
- Motherhood and Maternalism. By Lorelle Semley.
- Nana Asma'u. By Alaine Hutson.
- Nana Yaa Asantewa. By Lynda Day.
- Nginga a Mbande. By Selma Pantoja.
- Reproductive Health, Fertility Control and Childbirth. By Susanne M. Klausen.
- Sex Work/Prostitution in Africa. By Chi Adanna Mgbako.
- Women and Apartheid. By Meghan Healy-Clancy.
- Women and Development. By Michael Kevane.
- Women and the History of Religion in Africa. By Erin Nourse.
- Women and Migration. By Lesley Nicole Braun.
- Women and Militarization. By Sarah J. Zimmerman.
- Women and Pan-Africanism. By Hakim Ali.
- Women and Politics in Africa. By Aili Mari Tripp.
- Women and Post-Independence African Politics. By Gretchen Bauer, Akosua Darkwah, and Donna Patterson.
- Women and Violence in Africa. By Peace A. Medie.
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality in East Africa. By Miroslava Prazak.
- Women in Nationalist Movements. By Selina Makana.
- Women in Northern African History. By Fadma Ait Mous, Kmar Bendana and Natalya Vince.
- Women in Postcolonial Africa. By Selina Makana.
- Women in West African History. By Barbara Cooper.
- Women, Race, and Ethnicity. By Hilary Jones.
- Women's Legal Rights. By Johanna Bond.
- Women's Literature in African History. By Anthonia C. Kalu.
- Women's War of 1929. By Adam Paddock.
The Palgrave handbook of African women's studies. E-book. Edited by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Routledge handbook of queer African studies. E-book. Edited by S.N. Nyeck. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Schwarz-Bart, Simone, with André Schwarz-Bart. In praise of black women. 3 vols. [Madison, WI] : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001-
Sweetman, David. Women leaders in African history. (London : Heinemann, 1984)
World Bibliographical Series. Published by Clio Press in Oxford, England and Santa Barbara, CA: 1979-1999.
For a country bibliography, search in
CLIO and use [name of country] and "world bibliographical".
World biographical information system--African Biographical Archive. [Online [Munich] : K. G. Saur, 2004-2010.
Yakan, Mohamad Z. Almanac of African peoples & nations. (New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction, c1999)
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