Africa Knowledge Project


Africa Knowledge Project, known as AKP, promotes Critical African Studies. It disseminates Africa-centered, evidence-based knowledge on Africa and African Diaspora. You can pay to download an article, as well as get an individual subscription directly on our website. To obtain institutional pricing, please contact subscriptions@africaknowledgeproject.org.

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By far the best Internet source for anyone interested in past, present, and future scholarship with regard to Africa. High quality journals and constantly updated important information for anyone interested in the field or continent. -- Barry Hallen, former Professor of Philosophy, Morehouse College, Fellow & Associate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University

The Africa Knowledge Project (AKP) is a valuable, multidisciplinary tool ...a valuable database of unique scholarly and cultural resource for Africana scholars. -- H. Faye Christenberry, Angela Courtney, Liorah Golomb, and Melissa S. Van Vuuren, Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Strategies and Sources

JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies

JENdAISSN: 1530-5686
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies [JENDA] is an award-winning peer-reviewed journal which focuses on social, political, economic, and cultural concepts and categories that shape the lives of women in different African societies.

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ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness

ProudFlesh JournalISSN: 1543-0855
ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness [PROUDFLESH], is a peer-reviewed journal, a terrain for promoting exchange, thinking, for igniting the common impulse to create, to perform, to interrogate in spite of the odds fuelled by repression and rootlessness.

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Journal on African Philosophy

Journal on African PhilosophyISSN: 1533-1067
Journal on African Philosophy [JAP], a peer-reviewed online journal that promotes the study of African and African Diaspora philosophy and studies worldwide from a broad (critical) perspective.

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West Africa Review

Ofama SymbolISSN: 1525-4488
West Africa Review [WAR] is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, devoted to research on the countries, societies, and peoples from Cape Verde to Cameroun.

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Biafran War Database

Biafran War DatabaseAfrica's First Modern Genocide (1967-1970)
Biafran War Database [BWD] is a new initiative of Africa Resource Center that is curated by Dr. Azuka Nzegwu. The database publishes items from newspapers, photographs, interviews, archival materials, declassified intelligence reports, thesis, dissertations, and much more.

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Enriching Resource Document & Language Archive

Enriching Resource on African Languages DatabaseEnriching Resource Document & Language Archive [ERDLA] is a new initiative of Africa Resource Center. It features rich, subscription and open-access learning language modules, law, justice and criminology, and much more. The database enables individuals to learn African languages, judicial, legal, and other facets of African culture using curated resources.

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African Music Database

African Music DatabaseAfrican Music Database
African Music Database [AMD], a new initiative of Africa Resource Center that is curated by Dr. Azuka Nzegwu.

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Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World

IjeleISSN: 1525-447X
Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World [IJELE], a peer-reviewed online journal of contemporary art and architecture, art history and criticism, focusing exclusively on the visual creative expressions of artists in Africa and other regions of the world.

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Kiswahili Story Database

Kiswahili Story DatabaseCreative Works (short stories, folktales, etc)
Kiswahili Story Database is no longer being published. All past issues of Kiswahili can be accessed via our curated resource, the Enriching Resource Document & Archive. The database was curated by Professor Brillian Besi Muhonja of James Madison University and David B. Otiende of The Cooperative College of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2009 to 2014.

Kiswahili Story Database
[KSD] is a new initiative of Africa Resource Center that is curated by Brillian Besi Muhonja, professor of Africana Studies, Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Women's Studies at James Madison University, and David B. Otiende, Deputy Director of Academic Affairs at The Cooperative College of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya.

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