African Studies
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Research GuideAfrican Children's Literature: An Introduction to the CODE Collection at the Library of Congress In 2006, the Canadian Organization for Development Through Education (CODE) donated a large collection of African children's books to the Library. This guide is an inventory for the collection, available in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room.- Date: 2019-06-26
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Research GuideAfrican, Jewish, and Middle Eastern Studies: Digital Resources at the Library of Congress This research guide provides a compilation of primary and secondary source materials, reference works, free and subscription databases, recorded programs and more, selected by curators in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.- Date: 2020-06-17
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Research GuideSub-Saharan Africa Newspapers This guide provides an overview and listing of Sub-Saharan Africa newspapers available at the Library of Congress.- Date: 2023-07-26
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Research GuideBamum Script: An African Writing System The Bamum people are an ethnic group in the Republic of Cameroon with a unique writing system developed by their scholar-king, Sultan Ibrahim Njoya in the late 1800s. This guide provides curated Library of Congress research resources on the Bamum script.- Date: 2021-05-18
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Research GuideEgypt: African and Middle Eastern Reading Room Country Guide This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for researching Egypt, including digitized primary source materials in a wide variety of formats, books and periodicals, online databases, and tips for searching.- Date: 2020-06-03
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Research GuideGuide to Ethiopian Newspaper Articles This bibliographic guide lists selected newspaper articles published between 1940s and 2000s available in the Ethiopian newspaper collection accessed in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room.- Date: 2019-08-13
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Research GuideLakech Aklilu Jezequel Collection on Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti The items included in this collection were published predominantly in France in the 19th and 20th century and cover events and themes related to the Horn of Africa. This guide serves as a finding aid for the periodicals in this collection. It also offers several examples of press photos and postcards in the collection.- Date: 2024-07-11
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Research GuideThomas Kane Pamphlet Collection on Ethiopia/Eritrea at the Library of Congress This guide provides an inventory of the 1,095 pamphlets in the Thomas Kane collection. Researchers can request access to the pamphlets, paper presentations, and journal articles pertinent to the study of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. The pamphlets listed in this guide were collected as part of the private collection of Dr. Thomas Leiper Kane, a scholar and a linguist who spent close to…- Date: 2020-06-04