Historical Primary Sources: Africa: Eastern Africa

This is a collection of primary source documents related to the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s (also known as the 1977-1978 Ogaden War or the Ethiopian-Somali Conflict).

This collection contains documents relating to missionary society activities in Tanzania and Malawi during the period 1857-1965.

Partial collection of the official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.

Partial collection of the Kenya Gazette, an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.

Includes selected newspaper clippings and other resources dealing with contemporary Mozambican history and presented in a thematically organised form. Most content is in Portuguese.

Ethiopic manuscripts, consisting of sixty-four items, including fifty-four bound volumes and ten scrolls, primarily on vellum, with some paper. The manuscripts range in date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with bulk dates in the 1700s and 1800s. The codices are primarily service books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and also include a few rare Jewish manuscripts written in Ge’ez and Agaw, and fourteen magical prayers. Languages included are Ge’ez and Amharic.

Photographs by filmmaker Martin Rikli (1898-1969) include descriptions from his voyage to Ethiopia, 1935-1936. He documented defensive preparations in Addis Ababa during the Second Italo–Abyssinian War along with the ensuing chaos.

Selected digitized correspondence from the papers of Dr. Hasting Kamuzu Banda, former Life President of Malawi.

The Genocide Archive of Rwanda is the first of its kind in Rwanda. Its collections include testimonies, audio and video materials, photographs, physical objects, documents and publications as well as interactive mapping data.

Contains 49 video interviews conducted with personnel from the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

This project aims to preserve the fragile hand-written medical records held at the Albert Cook Medical Library in Uganda, dating from 1897

Digitized documents of the Church of Uganda that date back to its foundation, in 1877, by the Church Missionary Society of the Church of England.

1957-Apr 17, 1980 issues digitized at the Center for Research Libraries.

Video and audio recordings from professor of African and Comparative Literature Robert Cancel's research in Zambia and other regions of Africa. Footage documents oral histories and folk tales of a culture rich in oral traditions.