A digital repository of multilingual, multimedia research materials on Africa (open access).

A number of materials from the Africana collections have been digitized, including: Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa, Archival Materials, and Posters.

From the collection site: "Although African studies is a relatively new discipline, the field has generated a large body of publications in the past 45 to 50 years. Most of these of course were published in garden-variety ways, in sufficient copies to remain reasonably available in today's much improved document-delivery environment. Nonetheless, there have been exceptions--materials that were published in limited, sometimes very limited, quantities."

The digital collection from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

An expanded collection of digital resources on Africana Studies assembled by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University.

A searchable resource to explore digital content from archives, libraries, and museums in the United States on African American history and culture.

An archive of primary sources and educational material about the Civil Rights Movement.

A collection of images of the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

A collection of 590 posters reflecting the culture and politics of contemporary African nations (from Northwestern University)

“The 7,000-plus photographs in this extraordinary collection document the changing relationships among Africans and between Africans and Europeans during 100 years of dramatic historic change,” says Herskovits Library curator David Easterbrook. Northwestern University

James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590 - 1920. A database of published images of African art.

"A set of thousands of images taken from a broader photographic collection of British Foreign Office and Commonwealth Office images, held at The National Archives [of Great Britain]. Starting with some incredible early photographs from the 1860s, the images span over 100 years of African history. These images are now available, for the first time, to view online."--The National Archives website.