Research Guide: Selected African Politics Resources
April 2, 2012
Handbooks and Encyclopedias
Africa South of the Sahara. London: Europa Publications Ltd., 1971-. 316. Af8 most recent in IAS Africana
Elections in Africa: a Data Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 324.96032021 EL25 IAS Africana
Forsythe, David P., ed. Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 5 v. Q. 323.403 En2009 IAS
Reference
Middle East and North Africa. London: Europa Publications, 1964-. 315.6 M584 most recent in IAS Africana
Middleton, John, and Joseph C. Miller, eds. New Encyclopedia of Africa. Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2008. 5 v. Q. 960.03 N42 IAS
Africana
Minahan, James. Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 2002. 909.82903 M66na Education Reference, Main Reference
Stewart, John. African States and Rulers. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2006. 960.03 St49a2006 IAS Africana
Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe and Dickson Eyoh, eds. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. London: Routledge, 2003.
960.3103 En192 IAS Africana, History Reference, Oak Street; DT29 .E53 2003 Undergrad
African Studies Indexes and Bibliographies
Africa Bibliography. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1984-2010. 016.96 Af832 IAS Africana (Latest online
only)
Current Bibliography on African Affairs. [Farmingdale, N.Y.] Baywood Pub. Co. 1962-. 016.9605 C936N.S. IAS Africana
International African Bibliography. London: Mansell, 1971-2010. 016.916 In82 IAS Africana (Latest online only)
Biographical Sources
Africa Who’s Who. London: Africa Journal Limited for Africa Books, 1996. 960.320922 AF83 IAS Africana, Reference
African Biographical Archive
-. MFICHE 920.06 AF832 Main Reference
Fischbach, Michael R., ed. Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Detroit: Gale Group, 2008. 2
v. Q. 920.056 B52 Oak Street
Makers of Modern Africa: Profiles in History. London: Africa Journal Limited for Africa Books, 1996. 960.30922 M289 IAS
Africana
Who’s Who in the Arab World. Beirut: Publitec Editions, 2003-2004. 315.6 W62 Main Reference
U.S. Government Foreign Policy Bibliographies
Silverburg, Sanford R., and Bernard Reich. United States Foreign Policy and the Middle East/North Africa: a Bibliography of
Twentieth-Century Research. New York: Garland, 1990. 016.32773056 SI39U Education Reference
Witherell, Julian W., comp. The United States and Africa: a Guide to U.S. Official Documents and Government-Sponsored
Publications on Africa. Washington: Library of Congress: for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1978.
016.96 W773U and DOC. LC41.12:UN3 Main Stacks, Oak Street