African pictorial collection
Photographs, postcards, and slides, depicting scenes of daily life, cultural and historical sites, prominent personalities, and works of art in various countries of Africa
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Boganda National Museum
The museum displays arts and traditions of country through collections of pottery, coins, ritual masks, and traditional musical instruments. In a colonial villa in the rue du Languedoc, this museum…
Central African Republic Conflict
In July 2017, the USC Shoah Foundation added to the VHA four testimonies from witnesses of the ongoing Central African Republic conflict. Extreme sectarian violence between the pro-Muslim coalition Seleka…
Mia Farrow Collection
The Mia Farrow Collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, writings, and speeches pertaining to Ms. Farrow's activism and advocacy in Africa, particularly regarding Darfur, Sudan. There are also materials…
West Africa – Topographic Maps
The collection consists of maps of Abong Mbang, Lomie, N'zerekore, Seguela, Daloa, Soubre, Sassandra, Bouake, Agnibilekrou, Sunyani, Mampong, Dimbokro, Abengourou, Kumasi, Koforidua, Grand Lahou, Abidjan, Aboso, Accra, Takoradi, Ibadan, Lagos,…
Central African Republic Maps
The collection consists of political, shaded relief, city and detailed maps
Africa, West – Topographic Maps
Maps of Abong Mbang, Lomie, N'zerekore, Seguela, Daloa, Soubre, Sassandra, Bouake, Agnibilekrou, Sunyani, Mampong, Dimbokro, Abengourou, Kumasi, Koforidua, Grand Lahou, Abidjan, Aboso, Accra, Lagos, Keta, Ngaoundere, Baibokoum, Kouki, Yoko, Betare…
Africa – Topographic Maps
Series 2201, U.S. Army Map Service. Original scale 1:2,000,000. Complete collection with clickable map.
Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive, 1952-1998 and undated
The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by ANS over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about…
Bibliotheque Numerique (Digital Library)
A collection of digitised older academic papers focused on West and Central Africa