- Archives & Research Libraries

Research guides and databases:

• “Lusophone Africa in the Archives: Institutions and Collections."
  - A detailed overview of major archival holdings by Philip Havik, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical/ Universidade Nova, Lisbon
• Conhecimento e Visão: Fotografia no Arquivo e no Museu Colonial Português (1850-1950): Arquivos
  - The website for this research project, coordinated by Filipa Lowndes Vicente, provides a guide to colonial photographs in Portuguese archives and libraries.
• Memórias de África e Oriente
  - Online catalogue encompassing collections in 69 institutions in 6 countries
• Nordic documentation on the liberation struggle in Southern Africa: Archives
  - Guide to archives in Nordic countries holding materials on Southern African liberation struggles
• Porbase - Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos
  - Online catalogue encompassing collections in 170+ research libraries in Portugal

Archives and research libraries in Africa:

• Angola
  • Arquivo Histórico Nacional (The archive currently has no webpage)
    Address: Rua Pedro Félix Machado, N° 49 R/CH, Caixa Postal n° 2468, Luanda.
    Tel: +244 2 333512
    E-mail: ahnang@ebonet.net
• Cabo Verde
  • Arquivo Histórico Nacional
• Guinea Bissau
  • Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas (INEP) Arquivo Histórico
• Mozambique
  • Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique
  • Biblioteca Nacional de Moçambique
• São Tomé e Princípe
  • Arquivo Histórico de São Tomé e Príncipe
• South Africa
  • Allen Isaacman African Studies Collection, University of the Western Cape Library
  • Archives of The Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA), Archives and Special Collections, University of Johannesburg Library (Doornfontein campus)

Archives and research libraries in Europe:

• The Netherlands
  • International Institute of Social History
    • Archive of the Eduardo Mondlane Stichtung (Finding aid here)
    • Archive of the Angola Comitee/Holland Committee on Southern Africa
    • Frits Eisenloeffel Collection
• Portugal
  • Arquivo Histórico-Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros
  • Arquivo Histórico do Ex-Banco Nacional Ultramarino
  • Arquivo Histórico Militar
  • Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (finding aids here, a partial library catalogue here)
  • Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo
  • Biblioteca Central de Estudos Africanos
  • Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
  • Fundação Mário Soares
  • Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
• United Kingdom
  • Bishopsgate Institute Library
    • Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guine (CFMAG)
  • British Library  
    • Catalogue of 19th Century Hispano-Lusophone Africana
  • SOAS Archives and Special Collections

Archives and research libraries in North America:

• United States
  • Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane, Oberlin College Archives
  • Ronald H. Chilcote collection on Latin America, Special Collections at UC Riverside
    - Encompasses materials relating to Latin America, Portugal, and Lusophone African countries.

Archives and research libraries in South America:

• Brazil
  • Arquivo Nacional
  • Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia
  • Biblioteca Nacional do Brazil

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