MSU Libraries, Museums, and Publications

MSU has one of the top three U.S. university collections on Sub-Saharan Africa. Two Africana librarians produce several resources to assist researchers. Several academic units publish papers about Africa, and the MSU Press distributes publications of its own and from African publishers.

MSU Museums, Galleries and Cultural Sites

African and African Diaspora Collections: http://museum.msu.edu/ResearchandCollections/Collections/Cultural/african.html; Description of collections on Africa and the African Diaspora held by the MSU Museum with particular strength in materials from Nigeria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Niger, Somalia and South Africa.
MSU Collections on African Culture: http://www.culturalconnection.msu.edu

MSU Libraries

Africana (African Studies) at MSU Libraries: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/; Overview of African-related print and electronic holdings at the MSU Libraries and contact information for Africana librarians.
Electronic Resources on African Studies: http://er.lib.msu.edu/subject.cfm?cat=0&type=All&Subject=African%20Studies; Links to electronic research guides, indexes, numerous electronic journals, newspapers, texts, and primary sources. Licensing agreements limit use of some resources to MSU faculty, staff, and students.
African e-Journals Project: http://africa.msu.edu/AEJP/; Database of more than 2,000 journals concerning Africa, with full-text back issues of 11 scholarly journals published in Africa and tables of contents of many others. By African Studies Center, MSU Libraries, Association of African Universities, African Studies Association , and MATRIX.
A-Z of African Studies on the Internet: http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html; Directory of websites, discussion lists, and other electronic resources about Africa and African studies of particular interest to scholars of Africa. By Peter Limb, Africana Librarian, MSU Libraries.

MSU Press

African Books Collective at MSU: http://msupress.msu.edu/series.php?seriesID=22; Eleven edited discussion networks about Africa on topics such as teaching about Africa, South Africa, West African history, Hausa, contemporary politics, and film and cinema. Many discussion lists include book reviews. H-Net is an international scholarly network hosted at MATRIX.
Ahmed Kathrada’s Letters from Robben Island: http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=351; Kathrada’s letters from prison, with forward by Nelson Mandela. Edited by Robert Vassen.
Northeast African Studies Journal: http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/neas/; This leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, and Djibouti is published three times a year by the African Studies Center and MSU Press. The Journal is available on-line at Project Muse.
African Diaspora Research Project: http://msupress.msu.edu/series.php?seriesID=5; This project has trained researchers and conducted research on peoples of African descent in Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Asia. Directed by Ruth Simms Hamilton until her death in 2003, the projects has planned an 11-volume series with contributions from many fields of social science.

Other Publications

International Development Papers: http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/index.htm; More than 100 International Development Papers and Working Papers about agriculture and development in Africa from the 1980s to the present. By MSU Agricultural Economics Department.
MSU WID Working Papers on Africa: http://www.wid.msu.edu/resources/papers/africantopics.htm; More than 60 papers about women and gender in Africa published by the MSU Women and International Development Program from 1982 to the present.