Africa Bibliography
This large and authoritative guide to works in African studies has been published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984.
Screenshot of the online Africa BibliographyFrom 2011 a fully searchable, consolidated bibliography will be available to subscribers online.
- The Africa Bibliography includes a wide range of material: monographs, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, and pamphlets. It covers all regions of Africa, including North Africa.
- It lists works published in English as well as a number of other languages: Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Swahili, Spanish and Afrikaans.
- The bibliography categorises by region, country and subject.
- It includes an author index and a detailed thematic index.
- Publications principally in the social and environmental sciences, humanities and arts, and some items from the medical, biological and natural sciences are recorded.
- The bibliography includes materials on Africa published in non-specialist scholarly journals, in addition to specialist Africa publications.
- As an annual publication, it records the previous year's published work in its field, with provision for retrospective inclusion of earlier items.
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Editorial and submissions
The editor/compiler is Terry A. Barringer, formerly custodian of the Royal Commonwealth Society Collections (now in Cambridge University Library). An experienced bibliographer, she is currently editor of African Research and Documentation, the journal of SCOLMA (the UK Africa Libraries and Archives Group) and has also published on missionary periodicals and on the British Colonial Service).
The editor welcomes suggestions and comments on the bibliography and can be contacted at TABarringe[AT]aol.com.
Publishing and availability
Africa Bibliography is prepared in association with the International African Institute's journal Africa. The Africa Bibliography is available as part of a subscription to the International African Institute's journal, Africa. It can also be bought as a stand alone volume. From 2011 it is published for the institute by Cambridge University Press. For further information see journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFB
Annual volume published November
ISSN: 0266-6731
E-ISSN: 1757-1642
Read a review published by the Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB).
