"The African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) is a major six-year investment (2020-2026) by FCDO (UK Aid) to fund new, operationally-relevant research to address intractable development challenges in African cities."
ACRC Publications: Articles and briefings on the impact of COVID-19 ; City Scoping studies ; Working papers ; etc.
Project Cities: Accra, Addis Ababa, Bukavu, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Lilongwe, Maiduguri, Mogadishu, and Nairobi.
"The database provides export and import series at product level for more than two and a half centuries of African trade (1737-2010)." ***Note: As of January 1, 2022, the available data covers the period 1737-1939 only.
African Development Bank -- Statistics Division (Tunis, Tunisia ; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
"The website provides comprehensive and comparable data and analysis of 50 African economies..." --See also: Previous AEOs
Cities Alliance--PublicationsHosted by UNOPS. (Brussels, Belgium)
Search for Africa: "...the global partnership fighting urban poverty and promoting the role of cities."
Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS) (Macro International, Calverton, MD)
Search especially under reports on countries of the North Africa or Sub Saharan Africa regions.
The Economist Intelligence Unit Publications (London, UK)
Emerging Markets Information Service. (New York: Internet Securities, 2000-)
In English, French, and Arabic. Selected business and economic news in full text from newspapers, company reports, banks and brokerage houses, and research services.
IREDA is an inventory of the demographic censuses and surveys realized in West and Central Africa: Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Niger.
United Nations Environment Programme: UNEP World Environment Situation Room. (UNEP, Geneva, Switzerland)
A major source for research and policy statements from UNEP and its partners, including the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report, and for many other integrated environment assessments. --See also: GEO 6th edition (2019)
Africa commons. Black South African magazines. ([Washington, D.C.] : Coherent Digital, [2023]-)
""Black South African Magazines brings together over 50,000 pages of extremely rare magazines, written and targeted specifically for Black African audiences [during the apartheid era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s]...including Drum Magazine and Zonk! ...The magazines were packed with investigative journalism, photography, fiction, reviews, biographies, fashion, lifestyle, advertisements, and more."
African Bluebooks, 1821-1953. British Online Archives. Selections from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. (East Ardsley, Wakefield : Microform Academic Publishers, 2013).
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Africana: A Collection of Digitized Books" -- Selected British Colonial Annual Reports from The National Archives, UK, 1800-1939
[The archive at Wits itself contains] ...over 3000 separate collections of historical, political and cultural importance." The web site offers a searchable catalog of the archive, including selected online documents and images, such as a large number of photos and selected full texts from the archive--downloadable and searchable.