Africa : an encyclopedia of culture and society. 3 vols. Edited by Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques. (Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016)
Africa contemporary record: annual survey and documents. (London: Africana Publishing, 1968/69-2002)
Africa south of the Sahara. Annual. (London: Europa, 1971-) Print version
An African biographical dictionary. 2nd ed. Compiled by Norbert C. Brockman. (New York: Grey House Pub., c2006) (667 p.)
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African folklore: an encyclopedia. Edited by Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah. New York : Routledge, 2004. (593 p.)
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African kingdoms : an encyclopedia of empires and civilizations. Edited by Saheed Aderinto. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017] (363 p.)
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African-American experience. 5 vols. Edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Alpern, Stanley B. Guide to original sources for precolonial western Africa : an updated and expanded supplement to Fage (1994). [Madison] : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Arabic literature of Africa. Edited by John O. Hunwick and R.S. O'Fahey. (Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1994-)
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See especially: Vol. 2- The writings of central Sudanic Africa. Compiled by John O. Hunwick with the assistance of Razaq Abubakre [et al.]
Vol. 4- The writings of western Sudanic Africa. Compiled by John O. Hunwick
Vol. 5- The writings of Mauritania and the western Sahara. Compiled by Charles C. Stewart.
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Volumes 1-4 online
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.
A companion to modern African art. Ed. by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà. (Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2013)
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]
Dictionary of African biography. 6 vols. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors in chief. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012)
Dictionary of African Christian biography. (Online). (Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut)
Encyclopedia of Africa. 2 vols. Edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010)
Encyclopedia of African history. 3 v. Ed. by Kevin Shillington. (New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005)
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Encyclopedia of Islam. -- 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)
Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Edited by Toyin Falola and Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí. (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016])
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Falola, Toyin. Key events in African history : a reference guide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
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The handbook of civil society in Africa. Edited by Ebenezer Obadare. New York : Springer, [2014]
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Handbook of Political Science research on Sub-Saharan Africa: trends from the 1960s to the 1990s. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992)
Historical Dictionary series. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ ; Lanham, MD)
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one country, search in
CLIO, with "All fields" in "Advanced Search", and use [current name of country] and "historical dictionary".
Irele, Modupeola. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): a bibliography and sourcebook. (Lagos: Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, 1990)
Islam in Africa (1974-2024). Compiled by Paul Schrijver and updated by ASCL Library. (Leiden, The Netherlands: Afrikastudiecentrum = African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, 2018--) --via AfricaBib.Org
New encyclopedia of Africa, 5 v. Editor in chief, John Middleton; editor, Joseph C. Miller. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, c2008.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press)
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.
The Oxford handbook of African archaeology. Edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane. ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
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The Oxford handbook of the African Sahel. Edited by Leonardo A. Villalón. [S.l.: Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.
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The Oxford handbook of modern African history. Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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The Oxford handbook of Nigerian history. Edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2022.
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Oxford research encyclopedias--African history Online. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press)
Scholarly essays, with extensive bibliographic references, on a wide variety of topics in the field.
The Palgrave handbook of Islam in Africa. EBSCO e-book. Edited by Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi, and Toyin Falola. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Rake, Alan. African leaders: guiding the new millennium. (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001)
The Routledge companion to Christianity In Africa. Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba. New York : Routledge, [2016]
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Routledge handbook of Islam in Africa. E-book. Edited by Terje Østebø. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
West Africa over 75 years: selections from the raw material of history. Kole Omotoso et al., researchers; Kaye Whiteman, editor. (London: West Africa, 1993)
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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