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Global African Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals

Oldest black-owned newspaper in Africa, The West African Herald, No 64, April 2, 1860

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Burundi Tribune

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A Semana Online

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Addis Abba

Ethiopian Reporter

Gambia

Banjul

The Daily Observer

Ghana

Accra

The Ghanaian Chronicle

The Daily Graphic

Ivory Coast

Abidjan

Intelligent D’Abidjan

Kenya

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The East African

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Express de Madagascar

Madagascar Tribune

Midi Madagasikara

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The Daily Times

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Port Louis

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Windhoek

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Leadership Nigeria

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The Nigerian Tribune

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Kigali

La Nouvelle Releve

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Journal de Sao Tome

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Seychelles Nation

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Hargeysa

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Durban

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Dispatch Online

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Mail & Guardian

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Mbabane

Times of Swaziland

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Arusha

Dar es Salaam

The Express Online

Togo

Lome

Uganda

Kampala

The Daily Monitor

The Independent

The Congo

Kinshasa

The Observateur

Zambia

Lusaka

The Times of Zambia

Zimbabwe

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Continent-Wide Periodicals

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Africa e Mediterraneo
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African Economic Analysis

Africa Intelligence

Africa Lusofona (Portuguese)

Africa Positive (German)

African Business

African Vibe Magazine

Amina, le magazine de la femme (French)

New African Woman

The Africa Report

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Benin

Emotion, magazine du Showbiz et de la Femme

Côte d’Ivoire

L’Intelligent D’Abidjan

Botswana

Botswana Notes and Records

Ghana

Ghana Review International

Kenya

News from Africa

Old Africa: Stories from East Africa’s Past

Mali

Musow, le magazine

Mozambique

Mozambique Inview

Scholarly Journals

Africa

Continent-Wide African Journals

African Affairs

African Review of Books

Journal of African History

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

Journal of Modern African Studies

Slavery and Abolition

Specific Country Publications

Botswana

Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies

Ghana

Nigeria

Lagos Historical Review

Latin America

Brazil

Sankofa: Revista de Historia da Africa e de Estudios da Diaspora Africana

The West Indies

Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters

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