Digital access to 64 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901.
Includes the following titles: Egyptian Gazette (Cairo), Journal Franco-Ethiopien (Djibouti); Central African Times (Blantyre, Malawi), Commercial Gazette (Port Louis, Mauritius), Times of Marocco (Morocco), St. Helena Guardian (Jamestown, St. Helena) and Express en Oranjevrijstaatsch Advertentieblad (Bloemfontein, South Africa).
World Newspaper Archive is a fully-searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. It was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries- one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.
Newspaper published daily in Johannesburg, renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall.
The Rand Daily Mail pioneered popular journalism in South Africa, until it was controversially closed in 1985. Highlights include: Benjamin Pogrund's extraordinary coverage of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960; Helen Zille's uncovering of Steve Biko’s murder at the hands of police in 1976; news-breaking reporting by Mervyn Rees and Chris Day about the apartheid state's effort to influence opinion, an exposé that sparked the scandal known as “Muldergate."
The list of some of the other African newspapers to which Indiana University affiliates have online open access is provided below.The following is not meant to be comprehensive.
Benin:
Botswana:
Burkina Faso:
Cote d'Ivoire:
Ghana:
Namibia:
Niger:
Swaziland:
Tanzania:
Uganda:
Zambia:
Zimbabwe: