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International Historical Newspapers: African Newspapers Online

Historic News Sources and Periodicals

Africa's Historic Newspapers (Readex)
Searches African Newspapers 1800-1924, series I & II (World Newspaper Archive), African Newspapers : The British Library Collection (1821-1900), and Rand Daily Mail (1902-1985).
East African Newspapers (Global Press Archive)
Digitized page images with fulltext for three newspapers:
• Daily Nation (Nairobi), 1962-2002.
• The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa), 1943-1989.
• Daily Monitor (Kampala), 1993-2003.
CRL - Foreign Newspapers (use ILL-Books to request paper and microfilm)
Afrinul - Union list of African newspapers holdings in North American libraries
19th Century UK Periodicals: Empire
Church Missionary Society periodicals
National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-1994
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
Colonial African Newspapers from the British Library

BBC monitoring : Summary of World Broadcasts, Essential Global Media, 1939-2001
(Digitization in progress, NewsBank).
English-language transcriptions of broadcast speeches, current affairs, political discussions, and social and cultural events worldwide, some complete but most as summaries.
FBIS Daily Reports 1941-1996.
English-language transcriptions of foreign current affairs broadcasts, prepared by the CIA for U.S. government agencies.
Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995
English-language translations of journal articles, books, serials, and agricultural and industrial reports from around the world, prepared by the CIA for U.S. government agencies.