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1. The following African Studies web site is maintained and updated bi-annually:
An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet compiled by Peter Limb
2. The Reid Library holds a considerable number of core Africanist monographs and journals, and select archival documents, chiefly in microform. These resources include dissertations, annual reports and other government documents, and collections of private and organizational papers, including:
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Colin Legum clipping collection
Immanuel Wallerstein collection of liberation movement ephemera
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union [microform] : records 1925-1947 11 microfiche. Archive nos. A923 and A924.
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa, yase Natal [microform] : records, 1925-1943 6 microfilm reels
Kadalie, Clements, 1896-1951. My life and the I.C.U [microform] : papers relating to the book 2 microfiche.
Carter-Karis collection [microform] 23 microfilm reels.
Luthuli, A. J. (Albert John), 1898-1967. [Papers, letters etc., 1948-67] [microform] 2 microfilm reels
Selected pamphlets, handbooks, congress and other reports relating to South Africa [microform] 1 microfilm reel.
South Africa [microform] : a collection of miscellaneous documents, 1902-1963] 16 microfilm reels. A collection of newspapers, journals and documents from the Hoover Institution, covering the period 1902-1963 in South Africa.
South Africa. Natives Representative Council. [Verbatim reports of the proceedings of the Natives Representative Council, 1937-1946 [microform] 5 microfilm reels
South Africa, the war of 1899-1902 and the Chinese labour question [microform] / editor, Baruch Hirson. 10 microfilm reels
South African Institute of Race Relations. [Records, 1908-1962] [microform] : Wits Univ Library JBH RSA : AD 843, B Box records 33 microfilm reels
[South African miscellaneous manuscripts, 1911-1953] [microform] 1 reel
South African Native Affairs Commission. Report of the Commission with annexures and appendices [microform] 1904-05. 2 microfilm reels
[South African Police and Justice Department files [microform]] 6 microfilm reels.
Xuma, A. B. (Alfred Bitini), ca.1893-1962. Personal papers of Dr. A.B. Xuma [microform] 10 microfilm reels
Kenya and East African High Commission
Kenya. Annual departmental reports relating to Kenya and the East Africa High Commission 1903/4-1963 [microform] 112 microfilm reels
Tanganyika. Government publications relating to Tanganyika 1919-1961 [microform] 78 reels.
John F. Kennedy national security files [microform]. Africa : national security files, 1961-1963. 12 microfilm reels
United States. Africa [microform] : special studies 1962-1980 7 microfilm reels
United States. Africa 1941-1961 [microform] / [edited by Paul Kesaris] Washington : University Publications of America, [1980] 11 microfilm reels
United States. CIA research reports Africa, 1946-1976 3 microfilm reels
United States. Confidential U.S. State Department central files. South Africa, 1945-1949, and 1950-1954 14 and 23 microfilm reels
United States. South Africa [microform] : the making of U.S. policy, 1962-1989. Alexandria, Va : Chadwyck-Healey, 1991. 439 microfiches + 2 v. printed guide and index.
Colin Legum Clipping Collection
Legum, Colin. Colin Legum's press cuttings volumes 1936-1986 [and] Writings from the 1940's to the 1980's [microform] 10 microfilm reels, 40 microfiches
Immanuel Wallerstein collection of liberation movement ephemera
Select documents from the Immanuel Wallerstein collection of political ephemera of the liberation movements of Anglophone southern Africa, 1958-1975. 4 microfilm reels.
Select documents from the Immanuel Wallerstein collection of political ephemera of the liberation movements of Lusophone Africa, 1954-74 [microform] 5 microfilm reels
Various African journals and newspapers are also held on microform, including:
Cape Times 1918-1922
Fighting talk, 1954-1962, Johannesburg
Guardian/New Age
Imvo zabantsundu
Inkululeko (Freedom), 1939-1945, Johannesburg.
Inkundla ya bantu 1944-1951
Liberation, 1953-1959
Negro worker.1931-1937.
New times and Ethiopa news, 1936-1956
Passive resister, 1946-1948, Johannesburg
Umsebenzi : The South African worker.
Umvikeli-Thebe : The African defender]
The Reid Library also holds some original collections, including
Coutts, W. F. (Walter F.), Sir. Letters from Africa [sound recording] 4 sound cassettes.
[Ghana politics and economy, 1950's-1980s : publications] 8 box files. Collected by Robert E. Dowse.