Contains the fulltext of over 40 newspapers published in a number of African countries between 1800 - 1922.
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Includes 64 19th century African newspapers, collected by the British Library, covering the entire continent and including Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Morocco, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.
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Containing some two million articles from over 130 African news organizations since 1996 to present.
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The Liberian Observer newspaper has chronicled all facets of life, culture, and political development in Liberia. Access is from 1981-2014 and documents a dynamic phase in the modern history of Liberia, from the late twentieth century, through a civil war, and through its current phase of development
A resource for scholars of African studies, history, politics, and media. It also represents a historical preservation project and may be of interest to institutions that study war, genocide, the Holocaust, and apartheid.
A full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1960 - present
Drawing on the Pan-Africanist ideals and the African experience, The Elephant aims to be at the centre of the national dialogue, speaking truth power in a quest to re-imagine a state and a society that guarantee a life of inclusivity and dignity for all.
Covers general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information. Date coverage varies; some of the files go back to the 1970s.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: Varies. Some of the files go back to the 1970s
Online database of digitized historical newspapers covering the 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia. Covers 19th and 20th centuries, and includes some of these regions’ largest and most important newspapers.
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The East African Newspapers collection provides insight into this region during this critical time, featuring key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s. This growing collection currently includes over 475,000 pages total from three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda).
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