African History

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources is an annotated directory of online resources about Africa maintained by the Stanford University Libraries.

AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet.

Search results for digitized versions of the guides to the British National Archives collections on the end of the British Empire, hosted by the University of London.

Digitized documents on Germany's colonial empire hosted by the University of Bremen. Website and documents in German.

KovsieScholar is a digital service of the University of the Free State (South Africa) that collects, preserves, and distributes open access digital material, including digitized historical primary sources.

OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories. It enables the identification, browsing and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.

ResearchSpace is the institutional repository of the University of KwaZulu-Natal which was developed to increase the visibility, availability and impact of its research output. It was also created to disseminate and manage digital materials created by researchers of the institution, including some digitized primary source collections from the UKZN Library.

This website provides access to data about the transatlantic and inter-American slave trades culled from archives throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Frankfurt University Library digitized some of the books and journals originally collected by the German Colonial Society (Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft). The journals Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, Amtlicher Anzeiger für Deutsch-Ostafrika, Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet Kamerun, Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet Togo and several books including even a colonial cook-book are available online.

UCT Libraries Digital Collections represent a selection of material available through University of Cape Town’s archival holdings, primarily held in UCT Libraries Special Collections, but also gathered through academic field recordings, primary data collation and UCT departmental collections.

The Unisa Institutional Repository (UnisaIR) is an open digital archive of scholarly intellectual and research outputs of the University of South Africa. The UnisaIR contains and preserves theses and dissertations, research articles, conference papers, rare and special materials and many other digital assets.

An open access electronic archive collecting, preserving and distributing digital materials created, owned and hosted by the University of Pretoria, including many collections of digitized primary source materials.

Wits Institutional Repository on DSpace is the institutional repository of the University of the Witwatersrand, including many digitized primary source materials in open access.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.