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])
--via Gale Virtual Reference Library
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)
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, 2020.
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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