History : Africa: Primary Sources

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for African history.

Images: 1920 issue O Africano newspaper courtesy of African Newspapers, African women working in Deutsch-Ostafrika courtesy of the Koloniales Bildarchiv & 1948 letter from Anna Hodge courtesy of William V.S. Tubman Papers, 1904-1992

Major Collections on Africa

For additional digitized sources on Africa see Digital Sources in Europe for African History (in Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources)