Library Guides: African Studies: Subject-Specific Databases

African Literature

You can find articles related to African literature in the databases listed below, these contain journals that focus on African literature. You can search these if you don't want to get overwhelmed by the amount of information in ArticlesPlus.

African Writers Series
African Writers Series contains the key texts of modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of post colonial writing. Release Six of this online edition includes over 210 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.
British Humanities index
Includes abstracts and indexes of over 300 British journals and newspapers from 1962 to the presnt. The term "humanities" is interpreted broadly to include the arts, music, philosophy, religion, literature, economics, politics, history, and society.
Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive full-text database that provides users with information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
Literature Resource Center
Provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and more. Includes biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.
MLA International Bibliography
Bibliographic information (beginning in 1926) for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore. Coverage is worldwide and includes articles chosen from 3,500+ journals, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, and conference proceedings.

Gender Databases

You can find articles related to African gender issues in the databases listed below, these databases are focused specifically on women and gender.

AfricaBib.org
Indexes various kinds of publications about African women including journal and periodical articles, edited books, masters theses and Ph.D dissertations etc.
Gender Studies Database
A combination of Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases (1972 to the present) with the coverage of sexual diversity issues covering "the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia
Women's Studies International
Citations and abstracts from a variety of essential women's studies databases. 1972 to present.

Health Databases

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 20 million citations from biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS
SAHARA-J is an Open Access journal that publishes contributions in English and French. Emphasis is on empirical research, but includes theoretical and methodological papers and review articles.

University Libraries

African Studies

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African Business

African Literature

Gender Databases

Health Databases

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