Most of the newspapers on microfilm listed by country below must be requested from Offsite (1 business day waiting period) and then consulted in the Periodicals and Microforms Reading Room (PMMR), 401 Butler Library.
Some African newspapers on microfilm NOT available at Columbia University may be found at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library ...or... may be available through interlibrary loan from The Center for Research Libraries (CRL). You must use Columbia's Interlibrary Loan service to request microfilm from CRL.
Echo D'Alger (Algiers)
1956-1961
Presse du Cameroun (Douala)
Jan 1962-June 1962; 1963-1964
Fraternité (Abidjan)
Apr 1959-Dec 1966
Al-Ahram (Cairo)
1940-1994
--See also, Al-Ahram Digital Archive, 1876-2024 (via East View Global Press Archive)
Egyptian Gazette (Cairo)
1952-1966; 1993
Ghana Daily Graphic (Accra)
1956-1967; 1968
Ghana Evening News (Accra)
1960-1968
Ghanaian Times (Accra)
1962-1981; 1984-1996
The Ashanti Pioneer (Kumasi)
1929-1962
The Pioneer (Kumasi)
May 1968-Dec 1981
East African Standard or The Standard (Nairobi)
1954-1957; 1960-1968; Jan 1970-June 1974
1974-1991:Apr., 1992:Feb--1997, 2001:Sept. 1-2002, 2004:June-2005:Sep. 15
Lesotho News (Roma)
1967-1970
Basutoland news (Maseru)
1956:Feb.21-1966
Malawi News (Blantyre)
May 1961-1979
L'Essor (Bamako)
Butler Library, PMMR: FN 4003
1961-1979
Maroc presse (Casablanca)
Jan 1956-Apr 1956
Maroc soir (Casablanca)
1982-1992
L'Opinion (Rabat)
July 1966-Dec 1966; Jan 1969-Apr 1969; Sept 1970-March 1991
La vigie marocaine (Casablanca)
1957-1970; Jan 1971-Aug 1971
Windhoek Advertiser (Windhoek)
July 1919-Dec 1979
Daily Express (Lagos)
1960-1965; 1972-1975
Daily Times (Lagos)
1956-1975; 1976-1994
Eastern States Express (Aba)
1963-1965
Nigerian Morning Post (Lagos)
1961-1964
Morning Post
1964-1967
Nigerian Observer (Benin City)
1971-1981
Nigerian Outlook (Enugu)
1962-1967:Mar
West African Pilot (Yaba)
1937-1977
Dakar-Matin. (Dakar)
Butler Library, PMMR: FN 4005 and OFFSITE FN 421
[1959]-1970 (includes Paris-Dakar, 1959-1961)
Sofaa. (Dakar)
In Wolof and Pulaar
Butler Library, PMMR: FN 3707
Sept 1988-March 1997
Xal wi : journal du mouvement ouvrier et populaire. (Dakar)
Butler Library, PMMR: FN 3708
1992-1997
Daily Mail (Freetown)
Sept 1962-Apr 1964; 1965
Bantu World (The World) (Johannesburg)
Apr 1932-Apr 1986
Die Burger (Cape Town)
1954-1962
Cape Times (Cape Town)
1938: July--1968: July
Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg)
May 1995-Jan 2002; Jan 2003-Jan. 2005
Natal Witness (Pietermaritzburg)
May 1962-Dec 1963; May 1965-Dec 1965; 1966-1968
The Post (Johannesburg)
1965-1967
Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg)
Feb 1912-Apr 1985
--See also: Digital version of Rand Daily Mail (1911-1985) (via World Newspaper Archive)
The Star (Johannesburg)
Dec 1929-1950; Dec 1959-Sept 1983; Nov 1983
Weekly Mail (Johannesburg)
1985-1993
Weekly Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg)
1993-1995
The Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
Apr 1972-Dec 1980
The Nationalist (Dar es Salaam)
Apr 1964-June 1968
The Samachar (Zanzibar)
1961-1966
The Standard (Dar es Salaam)
Jan 1965-April 1972
Tanganyika Standard (Dar es Salaam)
Jan 1962-Nov 1964
Togo presse (Lomé)
Apr 1962-Dec 1966
Uganda argus (Kampala)
1962-1972
Jua (Bukavu)
1972-1976
Le Progrès (Kinshasa)
1962-1969
Salongo (Kinshasa)
March 6, 1972-Aug 1976; Nov 1977-Jan 1, 1979; July 1979-Oct 1979;
May 1980-June 1980; Sept 1980-Jan 1981
The Northern News (Ndola)
Butler Library, PMMR: FN 3077
Nov 1952-Jan 1954
OFFSITE FN 392
1956-1965
The Times of Zambia (Ndola; Lusaka)
July 1965-March 1974; Jan 1975-March 1975; July-Sept 1975; Jan 1976-June 1977;
Jan 1978-Dec 1982; July 1984-June 1985; Oct 1985-Dec 1985; Apr 1986-June 1988;
Apr 1989-June 1990; Oct 1990-June 1991; Oct 1991-March 1992;
Apr 1993-June 1993; Apr 1994-Sept 1994.
Bulawayo Chronicle (The Chronicle) (Bulawayo)
June 1950-Dec 1980
Moto (Salisbury)
Jan 1970-Dec 1974