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The African Studies Centre Library has a collection consisting of:

  1. About 70,000 books and approximately 450 current serials subscriptions. Total serials holdings amount to approximately 2,200 of which approx. 100 online journals.
  2. 4 daily African newspapers on microfiches.
  3. About 800 documentaries and feature films on video and DVD available to the public.
  4. 9,500 microfiches of development plans of African States.
  5. Grey literature: government reports, reports of international organizations, brochures, pamphlets.
  6. The online catalogue also contains titles of about 80.000 journal articles (many with abstracts).
  7. An online repository with access to more than 10.000 articles on Africa at www.connecting-africa.net
  8. Coverage of the collection: Geographical: North and Sub-Saharan Africa; disciplinary: anthropology and sociology; history; philosophy; economics, women's studies; political science; management and policy studies; law; administration; religion, education; socio-linguistics; literature and art.
  9. Languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Afrikaans.


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