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General Reference

The A-Z of South African politics : people, parties and players. Written and compiled by Kashiefa Ajam, Kevin Ritchie, Lebogang Seale, Janet Smith & Thabiso Thakali. (Auckland Park : Jacana Media, 2019)
--See also, previous editions: 1999 ; 2004; and, 2009

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-)

African disability rights yearbook, 2013--. Online. [Pretoria, South Africa] : Pretoria University Law Press (PULP).

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 [historical]. 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 country name and "area handbook".
For available online handbooks on Africa, see section on US Dept. of the Army in "US Organizations on Africa," compiled by Columbia University Libraries.
See also: The Library of Congress: Country Profiles, 2004-2008

A companion to the anthropology of Africa. E-book. Edited by Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Gonalves. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2019]

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, 2005-2020 (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)

Handbook of African philosophy of difference. E-book. Edited by Elvis Imafidon. (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020)
--2nd copy

Handbook of Africa's international relations. Edited by Tim Murithi. (London : Routledge, 2014)
--See also: E-book

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 Oxford handbook of the African Sahel. E-book. Edited by Leonardo A. Villalón. [S.l.: Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.

The Palgrave handbook of African political economy. E-book. Edited by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Toyin Falola, (Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

The Palgrave handbook of African politics, governance and development. Edited by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Toyin Falola. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
--See also: E-book

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).
--See also: E-book

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 Africa-Asia relations. Edited by Pedro Miguel Amakasu Raposo de Medeiros Carvalho, David Arase and Scarlett Cornelissen. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
--See also: E-book

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".

Yearbook on the African Union, 2020--. E-book. (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2022-- )