LibGuides: International Studies: Africa

Primary Source Databases

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new window
Historic full-text archive of British diplomatic dispatches and publications from 1820 to 1970. On the Archives Direct/Adam Matthew platform.

Secondary Source Databases

Middle East & Africa Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many Middle Eastern and African countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

Newspapers

African Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access to the latest news and developments from a variety of titles including The International Herald Tribune, Africa News Service, BBC Monitoring Africa, and more.
World Newspaper Archive - African Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes 19th and 20th-century newspapers from Africa.

Books

Education Law, Strategic Policy, and Sustainable Development in Africa by Azubike C. Onuora-Oguno (Editor); Wahab O. Egbewole (Editor); Thomas Kleven (Editor) This book outlines the findings and suggestions of the Law and Society Association's International Research Collaborations, which focused on the African Union's Agenda 2063. This outlined the ideal Africa aspired to by the year 2063: 'the Africa we want'. The authors examine socio-economic rights issues and their impact on developing a strong educational agenda that can drive Africa to realize Agenda 2063. As Africa's development has remained slow in the face of many challenges, the need to embrace good governance, rule of law and human rights obligations are major tools to realize the continent's potential. The project focuses in particular on the central place of education law and policy in achieving the goals of Agenda 2063.
ISBN: 9783319537023
Publication Date: 2017-07-24
Fragmented Labour Struggles and South Africa's Unfinished Liberation by Alexander Beresford South Africa's current political upheavals are the most significant since the transition from apartheid. Its powerful trade unions are playing a central role, and the political direction they take will have huge significance for how we understand the role of labour movements in struggles for social justice in the twenty-first century.
ISBN: 9781137436597
Publication Date: 2015-10-19
Great Powers and US Foreign Policy Towards Africa by Stephen M. Magu This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. In assessing the history of the United States and its interactions with the continent, particularly with the Horn of Africa, the author casts doubt on whether successive US administrations had a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. The volume examines the historical interactions between the US and the continent, evaluates the US involvement in Africa through foreign policy lenses, and compares foreign policy preferences and strategies of other European, EU and BRIC countries towards Africa.
ISBN: 3319940953
Publication Date: 2018-08-29
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa by B. Camminga This book tracks the conceptual journeying of the term 'transgender' from the Global North--where it originated--along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the interrelationships between the two.  The term 'transgender' transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies, national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can be usefully termed 'gender refugees', gathered through a series of life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of South Africa for gender refugees have been both enabled and constrained by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of transgender. This book explores, through these narratives, the radical constitutional-legal possibilities for 'transgender' in South Africa, the dissonances between the possibilities of constitutional law, and the pervasive politics/logic of binary 'sex/gender' within South African society. In doing so, this book enriches the emergent field of Transgender Studies and challenges some of the current dominant theoretical and political perceptions of 'transgender'. It offers complex narratives from the African continent regarding sex, gender, sexuality and notions of home concerning particular geo-politically situated bodies. 
ISBN: 3319926683
Publication Date: 2018-11-12

International Studies: Africa

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