Africana Reading Room

328 Main Library
Monday to Friday, 8:30 to 5:00
(217) 244-1903

Special Databases

African Cultural Sources
Linked by the UIUC Afro-American Studies Library

African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources

Afriterra: The Cartographic Free Library
A searchable database of over 500 online, digitized maps of Africa from 1480 to 1900.

Aluka
A digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Current offerings include a sections on African cultural heritage sites and landscapes, African plants, and struggles for freedom in Southern Africa.

CAMP: Cooperative Africana Microform Project
Holdings are included in the CRL Catalog

Contemporary Africa Database
A project of the Africa Centre, London

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa (DISA)
The aim of the DISA project, is to make accessible to scholars and researchers world-wide, South African material of high socio-political interest which would otherwise be difficult to locate and use.

Index to African Official Government Publications Focuses on materials deposited by government offices/ministries of ECA member states as well as African intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions as part of existing depository library arrangements.

Nordic Documentation of the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa
A reference source that documents the role of the Nordic Countries in the struggles for liberation in Southern Africa during the late 20th century.

South African Research and Archival Project, Researcher's Guides : The SARAP Project is located at Howard University.This project began as an effort to identify, locate and describe documentation about the diasporic relationship between blacks in South Africa and the United States. 

World Health Organization Library Database (WHOLIS)
WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library database available on the web. WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present. An on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents.