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African Studies: Film/News/Music

Music

Music Time in Africa Archive Digitized audio recordings, and the associated scripts (where available), of the radio program broadcast by the Voice of America in Africa beginning in 1965.

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online Includes fieldnotes and audio recordings of music from around the world.

Film

The Media Resources Center (MRC) manages the UC Berkeley Library's primary collection of (audio and visual formats, including videocassettes, DVDs; compact audio discs; audiocassettes; and online audio and video. Materials in the MRC may be used on-site in the Center by current UC Berkeley students and staff, and increasingly online through a variety of streaming services.

African Cinema in the Library Collection

Newspapers

African historical and current newspapers are also available electronically through both free and subscription sites. 

The Stanford Library has one of the largest collections of African newspapers in print and microfilm in the United States.  These titles are available for on-site viewing by UCB afilliated persons.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) loans African newspapers on microfilm and facilitates digital access to UCB patrons. The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) collects and preserves newspapers from over fifty nations in Sub-Saharan Africa. See the CAMP Holdings List and CRL's online catalog for an overview of CAMP's collections. There is also a list (organized by country) of newspapers held in microform by CAMP and the Center for Research Libraries. Last updated in July 2012. 

CRL also hosts AFRINUL a union list of African newspapers held by research libraries.  This is not a complete list so double-check with each institution's catalog for complete holdings.

The Library of Congress collection of historical Sub-Saharan Africa Newspapers is among the largest in the world.  Titles are available for on-site viewing and by duplication upon request.