Research Guides: Contemporary African Politics: Home

General Reference

Africa contemporary record. Annual. (London: Africana Publishing, 1968/69-2002)

Africa south of the Sahara. Annual. (London : Europa, 1971-)
- See also: Europa world plus (described below)

Africa yearbook online. (Leiden: Brill, 2004-)
The African Union and its institutions. Edited by John Akokpari, Angela Ndinga-Muvumba and Tim Murithi. (Auckland Park, South Africa : Fanele ; [Cape Town] : Centre for Conflict Resolution, 2008).
See also: E-book

L'Afrique des Grands Lacs Annual. (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997--)

Area Handbook series. Prepared by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the US Dept. of the Army. (Washington)
- For the handbook of a country, search in CLIO: use [name of country]--as a Subject and "area handbook"--in "All Fields"
- Africa -- section on US Dept. of the Army
- See updated information for some countries from the Library of Congress: Country Profiles, 2004 to present

Civil Society Database: a searchable directory of NGOs in Africa. (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, NGO Branch and Office of the Special Adviser on Africa)
- Directories --in print-- of currently active NGOs in individual countries:
  Check CLIO--Catalog using a Subject keyword search for "non-governmental organizations" and
  [name of country] and "directories"
  --For example: Répertoire des organisations non-gouvernementales membres du CONGAD. Ed. 2004. (Dakar, Senegal: CONGAD, c2004).

Compendium of elections in southern Africa. Ed. by Tom Lodge [et al.]. (Johannesburg, South Africa: Electoral Institute of Southern Africa, 2002).

A dictionary of African politics. E-book. [Compiled by] Nicholas Cheeseman, Eloïse Bertand, and Sa'eed Husaini. ([Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2019)

Elections in Africa: a data handbook. Edited by Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich, Bernhard Thibaut. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1999)
See also: E-book

Europa world plus. -- New York, NY : Routledge ; Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-
Detailed economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles, with directories of civil society groups, media, statistics, and bibliographic references.
- Select "Africa South of the Sahara" or "Middle East and North Africa"

GlobaLex--Foreign Law Research: Country Index, 2005-2019 (New York University Law School, New York)

Governance in the Middle East and North Africa : a handbook. Edited by Abbas Kadhim. (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013)

The handbook of civil society in Africa. Edited by Ebenezer Obadare. (New York : Springer, [2014])
--See also: E-book

Handbook of political science research on Sub-Saharan Africa: trends from the 1960s to the 1990s. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992).

Handbook of political science research on the Middle East and North Africa. Ed. by Bernard Reich. (Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1998)

Historical Dictionary series. Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD)
Most recent editions are in Lehman Library Reference, near "Global Studies". For a dictionary of one country, search in CLIO: use [name of country] and "historical dictionary"--as "All Fields".
- Selected countries: Angola ; Botswana ; Cameroon ; Côte d'Ivoire ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Ethiopia ; Gambia ; Ghana ; Kenya ; Liberia ; Madagascar ; Mali
  Mauritania ; Mozambique ; Niger ; Nigeria ; Sierra Leone ; Zimbabwe
- Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa. 2nd ed. (2008)
- Historical dictionary of international organizations in Africa and the Middle East. E-book. (2015)
- Historical dictionary of international organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2nd ed. (2002)
- Historical dictionary of women in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2nd ed. (2016)
  --See also: E-book

Human rights law in Africa. 2 vols. Edited by Christof Heyns, Morne Vander Linde. (The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004)
See also: E-book version (via HeinOnline)

Human rights manual and sourcebook for Africa. Compiled by Keir Starmer and Theodora A. Christou; edited by Kate Beattie...[et al.] (London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, c2005).

The Middle East and North Africa. Annual. (London: Europa, 1995-)
See also: Europa world plus

New encyclopedia of Africa, 5 v. Editor in chief, John Middleton; editor, Joseph C. Miller. (Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2008).
See also: E-book (via Gale Virtual Reference)

The Palgrave handbook of peacebuilding in Africa. Edited by Tony Karbo, Kudrat Virk. (Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, Centre for Conflict Resolution, [2018])
See also: E-book

A political and economic dictionary of Africa. Compiled by David Seddon, with Daniel Seddon-Daines. (London: Routledge, 2005).

Political parties of Africa & the Middle East. Edited by R. East and T. Joseph. (Harlow, England: Longman; Detroit, MI: Gale Research, distributor, 1993).

Routledge handbook of African politics. Edited by Nic Cheeseman, David M. Anderson, and Andrea Scheibler. (New York : Routledge, 2013)
--See also: E-book

Routledge handbook of democratization in Africa. Edited by Gabrielle Lynch and Peter Von Doepp. EBSCO E-book (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020)
--See also: Taylor & Francis E-book

World Bibliographical Series CLIO Press (Oxford ; Santa Barbara, Calif.)
For a country in the series, search in CLIO: use [name of country] and "world bibliographical"--as "All Fields".

Library Catalogs

CLIO
(All CU libraries EXCEPT Law Library & Teachers College)

Pegasus (Law Library)

Educat (Teachers College)

More Catalogs

WorldCat

Index Databases

Africa-Wide Information
-- Combine with: Anthropology Plus ; Book Review Digest Plus; and, Social Sciences Full Text

PAIS International
-- Combine with Other databases: such as:: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

International Political Science Abstracts

CU Law Library -- Indexes and Databases (Select Foreign or International)

Maps

Columbia University

Maps of Africa on the Internet

Maps and Data Service (Digital Social Science Center, Lehman Social Science Library)

Griffiths, Ieuan Ll. Atlas of African affairs. (New York : Routledge, 1994)

Mapping specialists, Inc. Africa on file.
2 vols. (New York : Facts on File, 1995)

University of Texas at Austin, Perry Castañeda Library: Maps of Africa

African Studies Librarian

Contact: Yuusuf S. Caruso, Ph.D.
E-mail: caruso@columbia.edu
Phone: 212-854-8045
Office: Global Studies, 309 Lehman Library, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027

CU Guides to Internet Resources

African Studies WWW-Virtual Library

Citation Management

The Chicago manual of style. 17th ed. E-book. (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2017])

Columbia University: Citation Management Software (Zotero, Mendeley & EndNote)

Columbia Guide to Online Style--ebrary
-or- Netlibrary version

Guide to Citing Government Documents

The Bedford Handbook