POLS 359 : African Democracy and Dictatorship: Primary Document Sources

The Library of Congress's collection of digitized world materials. Searchable by time period and location.

A portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource. Plans are underway to add digital tools in order to enable scholars to work with and add to these materials.

Full-text PDFs, organized by country or region, that contain primary source documents chronicling the end of British colonial rule in those areas.

Established in June 2000 to address the biased way in which South Africa’s history and heritage, as well as the history and heritage of Africa in general, was being represented in existing educational and cultural institutions, SAHO is a non-profit and "non-partisan people's history institution," focused on presenting public history in freely available digital format for educational purposes.

South African political party originally founded in 1912. Click on the Documents tab on the top to see Speeches, Manifestos, Resolutions, Declarations, and more.

Includes links to many more primary source archives, organized by region. Links with the lock symbol beside them will not be accessible to Earlham students.