Archive for the ‘African Studies’ Category

English Studies in Africa

Friday, August 28th, 2009

English Studies in Africa

Since it was established in 1958, English Studies in Africa has published some of the key interventions in literary studies.   The journal has emphasized, as its name attests, the study of world literature in English within African contexts, at the same time as it set about promoting the study of African literature worldwide.  – Publisher’s blurb.

Africa-Asia Confidential

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Africa-Asia Confidential

Africa-Asia Confidential aims to get behind the headlines to analyse the real significance for our readers of events, policies and bilateral relations between the two continents. Despite the growing plethora of free news available from the internet and other sources today, the need for reliable, trustworthy information is even greater. To gather that exclusive and solid information, Asempa spends most of its resources on correspondents. – Publisher’s blurb.

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Africa-Wide NiPAD expanded

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Africa-Wide NiPAD

Northwestern University Library’s subscription to Africa-Wide NiPAD has been greatly expanded.

The database has been enhanced to include over 900,000 additional records. This enhancement is the result of the incorporation of the entire African Healthline database, which will continue to be updated within Africa-wide NiPAD.

The database now has the ability to search on records from African Healthline exclusively, as well as the two other databases that make up Africa-wide NiPAD (African Studies, and South African Studies), using a new search limiter, called Database Subset. African HealthLine is an electronic information resource which is an aggregation of 13 bibliographic databases from around the world.  Databases include HealthLit, African subset of MEDLINE, Index to South African Periodicals, Health Link Worldwide, Medicines information Centre and Current and complete research in South Africa Database.  The databases are sourced worldwide and cover all aspects of health. – Publisher’s blurb.

Africa : An Encyclopedia for Students

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Africa : An Encyclopedia for Students

Based on the scholarship in the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Africa, aimed at college and graduate students, this work presents Africa, from Egypt to Cape Town and from prehistoric times to the present day, in a format accessible to high school students. This set spans many disciplines, covering animals, foods, holidays and festivals, tribal groups, ecology, music and art, trade and economy, geography, religion, folklore, and fossil and skeletal discoveries. – Publisher’s blurb.

Press Digest : Ethiopian Weekly

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Press Digest : Ethiopian Weekly

PRESS DIGEST is a weekly condensation, in English, of news comments and features in the Ethiopian press. Every PRESS DIGEST issue focuses on five to seven major issues. – Publisher’s blurb.

African Diaspora

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

African Diaspora

African Diaspora seeks to understand how African cultures and societies
shape and are shaped by historical and current diasporic and transnational
movements. – Publisher’s blurb.

African Security

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

African Security

African Security is a new journal dedicated to the exploration of fresh approaches to understanding Africa’s conflicts and security concerns.  Publishing two issues per annum, this journal investigates competing analytical approaches to understanding security while engaging in discussions of real world security issues in Africa.  In particular, the journal seeks to investigate the myriad issues relating to conflict and security within and between African nations, not only from the more traditional approaches to security studies but also from more novel and innovative perspectives. – Publisher’s blurb.

Roper Center For Public Opinion Research

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Roper Center For Public Opinion Research

Presents the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, a nonprofit research organization located at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Provides a history and overview of the Center. Describes the resources and services that are available. Offers access to the archives and publications of the Center. The data held range from the 1930s to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. Contains over 17,000 datasets. The iPOLL databank offers access to nearly half a million survey questions and answers asked in the US by more than 150 survey organizations. Direct links are given to study documentation and datasets ready for instant access and express downloading through RoperExpress.

Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal

The Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal publishes scientific articles in forest science and management of fast-growing, planted or natural forests in the Southern Hemisphere and the tropics. Papers are also encouraged on related disciplines such as environmental aspects of forestry, social forestry, agroforestry, forest engineering and management as well as the goods and services that are derived from forests as a whole. Articles published by the journal are of value to forest scientists, resource managers and society at large. – Publisher’s blurb.

Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa

The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa aims to combine ethnomusicological, musicological, music educational and performance-based research in a unique way to promote the musical arts on the African continent. The journal provides practical suggestions for music teachers as well as general arts and culture practitioners on instrumental and vocal training. – publisher’s blurb.