- Digital Archives & Databases

Digital Archives and Databases - Open Access:

• 40 Anos do 25 de Abril - 40 anos de independência, Deutsche Welle
  - Video and audio of interviews with individuals involved in independence movements in Portugal’s former colonies in Africa.
• African Activist Archive Project
  - A "growing online archive of historical materials - pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings” documenting the work of US activists who supported African liberation movements.
• Afrobarometer
  - Data from public attitude surveys on democracy and governance for 30+ African countries, including Cabo Verde and Mozambique.
• Arquivo Científico Tropical - Digital Repository
  - Digitised materials from collections held by the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon.
• Counting Colonial Populations: Demography and the Use of Statistics in the Portuguese Empire 1776-1890
  - The research team for this ongoing project share their sources via an online database.
• Diamang Digital, Universidade da Coimbra
  - Documents, photographs and audio sources related to the former Diamang – Companhia de Diamantes de Angola.
• Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa 1959-1965, University of Southern California
  - Digitised materials collected by Ronald H. Chilcote.
• Fundação Mário Soares: Casa Comum
  - Collections of digitised documents, recordings and images include:
  • Arquivo Amílcar Cabral Arquivo Histórico de São Tomé e Príncipe
  • Arquivo Mário Pinto de Andrade
  • Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Bissau
  • Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
• International Institute of Social History
  - Online visual materials include:
  • The African Travels of Frits Eisenloeffel
    - Photographs from Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cabo Verde, 1974-1981
  • Posters from Mozambique. 
• International Mission Photography Archive, University of Southern California Library
  - Includes images from mission societies in Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau
• Memórias de África e Oriente: biblioteca digital
  - Digitised rare books, journals and archival collections.
• Mozambique History Net, compiled and maintained by Colin Darch
  - Aims to "make available selected newspaper clippings and some other resources dealing with contemporary Mozambican history and presented in a thematically organised form.”
• Museu Afro Digital Rio de Janeiro
  - Digital collections and online exhibitions on the culture and history of afrodescendentes in Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas.
• Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa
  - Provides access to interviews and audio-visual materials relevant to the history of the Southern African liberation struggles and to the participation of individuals and organisations in Nordic countries.
• Ruth First Papers
  - A database that aims to provide access to "the collected notes and writings of Ruth First, activist, campaigning journalist and scholar.” 
• Trafego de Escravos no Brasil
  - Digitised images and documents held by the Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil relevant to the UNESCO Slave Route Project.
• University of Florida Digital Collections: African Studies Collections
  - Digitised published materials from the Donald Abraham collection of Lusophone culture and history (concentrating on Angola and Mozambique)
• Visualising Portugal: the New State 1933-1974
  - Visual sources from the period of the Estado Novo which encompass Portugal's colonial history.

Digital Archives and Databases - Access Restricted:

• Aluka: Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
  - Includes "more than 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral histories, and speeches."
  • Subscription only. Free access is provided for African countries and free/reduced-fee access is provided for other developing nations. Access fees and policies here.
• Legis Palop: A Base de Dados Oficial dos Palop
  - A database of legislation and related texts for Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe.
  • Registration required, some material is subscription only.
• Readex African Newspapers, 1800-1922.
  - A searchable collection which includes newspapers from Angola, Mozambique and São Tomé e Principe.
  • Subscription only

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