Click on the above map to explore it on Tableau Public. The interactive map can filter by country; presumed gender; or last name.
This data is based on Ohio University's African Authors dataset from 2020 with updates from additional literature surveys. You can find the dataset used for the map through Tableau Public or as a CSV (chart, openable with Google Sheets or Excel) on GitHub. If you'd like to see an author added or note a mistake in the data, please let the UC Berkeley's Literatures librarian know. Happily, new authors continue to publish and we'd be delighted to keep adding names.
A comprehensive database covering journals, magazines, newspapers, broadcasts, books and more on all aspects of Africa including politics, history, economics, literature, music and natural sciences. (Africa-Wide NiPAD) [19th century - present]
Includes: Nordic Africa Institute Online Catalogue (NOAK); IBISCUS (1970 to 2001); School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue: Africa; Afro-Tropical Bird Information Retrieval Database; The Campbell Collections of the University of Natal, Killie Campbell Africana Library Bibliography; International Library of African Music (ILAM); African Development Database; African Journals OnLine (AJOL); South African Databases; Witwatersrand University Management Research Reports; and more.
For additional sources and support, please take a look at UC Berkeley's African Studies Library Guide.