African Studies and African History: Africa Research Centers / Papers

A digital library of over 3000 books, journals, and documents related to African policy issues; a directory of experts; plus, current news analysis and opinion articles.
(Centre for International Governance Innovation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa)

"To be the leading African institution, in partnership with other stakeholders, in building sustainable capacity for good governance and poverty reduction in Africa...The Board of Governors comprises representatives of African governments and all donor countries to the ACBF as well as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, UNDP and the IMF."

At this site, abstracts and full texts in PDF format are available: papers, executive summaries, research newsletter, etc. "The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in July 1988, is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to advanced policy research and training."

This site offers information about research, occasional papers on debt, poverty reduction strategy impact, and other topics, plus recent issues of the AFRODAD newsletter: Debt & Development in Africa.

This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."

Ce site -- en français, en allemand, et en anglais -- offre beaucoup de liens aux textes choisis (publications occasionelles, travaux et documents), des autres ouvrages sur divers thèmes, et aux médias d'Afrique.

A ce site officiel, on peut télécharger plusieurs publications de l'organisation au format PDF. De plus, on peut trouver les données statistiques sur les états membres de l'organisation: démographie, education, activités économiques, échanges extérieurs, prix, transports, tourisme et environnement, etc. 'AFRISTAT est une organisation internationale créée par un traité signé le 21 septembre 1993 à Abidjan par les pays de la Zone Franc.'

The Afrobarometer is an independent, nonpartisan research project that measures the social, political, and economic atmosphere in Africa.

Owerri, Nigeria: Imo State Ministry of Information and Culture, 1979-. HTML format. (via IgboNet, Igbo Heritage, Inc., USA) This is an online archive of lectures in English about Igbo culture and language.

This site offers free downloads of CDD publications (in PDF format) on the West African diaspora, Nigerian elections, as well as reports on gender, human rights, governance, security and development in Nigeria and West Africa; CDD seminar series; and the newsletter:
West Africa insight. (Online) -- Abuja: CDD, 2010-

Originally founded in 1987 at the University of the Witwatersrand, the CPS became an independent research institution in 1996. Research reports, policy briefs, policy--issues & actors, and the newsletter "Synopsis" are available in downloadable PDF format from this African policy think tank's web site.

There are few free publications available online; most are for sale. (Cape Town, South Africa)

(Roma, Italy)

(African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
"...a service that provides access to African research information produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere: details of Africa experts affiliated to Dutch and Belgian organizations; details of Dutch and Belgian development-related organizations, universities and research institutes; titles of published research on Africa in the Netherlands and elswhere; digital resources on Africa (full-text of publications, images and sound) in about 55 institutional repositories.

A searchable repository of research papers by economists working on development issues worldwide. Search under "Africa" or individual countries.
(Swedish Business School, Örebro Universitet, Örebro, Sweden)

The ESRF was established in 1993 as an independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis.
(Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

"EDRI was established in August 1999 by the Ethiopian government with the mission to: conduct rigorous research and policy analysis that provide knowledge-based inputs to policymaking and policy implementations ; and, disseminate its research outputs and findings to the policy and research community, academia, the development community and other stakeholders." (Addis Ababa)

"Ethno-Net Africa is a UNESCO-MOST network of African social scientists engaged in comparative research, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social change in Africa. It attempts to address ethnic issues in a more constructive, comparative and regional perspective, identifying common denominators and drawing lessons from experiences in specific countries and regions."

(Windhoek, Namibia).

[In addition to 3 periodicals...] "These are largely research reports which include subjects such as human resource development; informatics; legislation; finance; district systems development; environmental health; mental health; nutrition and STDs/HIV/AIDS."
(Durban, South Africa)

The site offers downloadable publications (in PDF) from the institute. "The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) was launched in April 2001 as a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to deliver independent, analytical, critical yet constructive research into social, political and economic issues that affect development in Namibia."
(Windhoek, Namibia)

A full range of monogaphs, journals, and papers available online in PDF or HTML formats.
(Pretoria, South Africa)

Fundado em 1984: "A actividade principal do INEP consiste na realização de investigação fundamental e na elaboração de estudos, sendo constituído por um corpo de investigadores nacionais permanentes e uma rede de investigadores associados nacionais e estrangeiros."
(Bissau, Guiné-Bissau)

The website is in French or in English consisting of an archive of documents from governments, local and international NGOs, scholars, and other individuals from the early 1990s to the present.
(Geneva, Switzerland)

(Stockholm, Sweden)

"...covers 18 countries, which include the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as Cameroon, Chad, and Mauritania. It supports civil society communities and advocates to governments on issues of governance; law, justice and human rights; public health and development; information, communication technology, and media."
(Dakar, Senegal ; Abuja, Nigeria ; Monrovia, Liberia)

CEMAf occasional paper series in anthropology and history of Africa -- Aix-en-Provence, France: Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Université de Provence, 2007-2008.

"[Le Réseau] a été créé pour promouvoir le droit et l'éthique dans le domaine de la santé. Il s'inscrit dans le contexte du développement du réseau 'Droit de la Santé', créé en juillet 2003 par l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)..."
(Dakar, Sénégal)

full-text theses, journal articles, conference papers, etc. (Grahamstown, South Africa)

Downloadable reports in PDF format. "SAHARA is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation on South Africa, the SADC region and sub-Saharan Africa."

"The first phase of the Archive involved the digitisation of technical reports on aid and development from Operation Lifeline Sudan (1989-2005). A library of contemporary and historical literature on environmental issues was added in 2006; a collection of reports on local peace processes in 2007. They will be followed by further ethnographic writing, grammars and dictionaries of Sudanese languages, and collections of documents in Arabic."

Greenstone Digital Library Software (via IRD--Institut de recherche pour le développement, Bondy, Île-de-France).