Current Periodicals Relevant to African Literature
Located in the Periodicals Room, Wilson Library, unless noted otherwise.
ALA Bulletin
Africa
African Arts
African Literature Today
Ba Shiru
Callaloo
Canadian Journal of African Studies
Coloquio-Letras
The Conch
CRNLE Reviews Journal
Current Writing
English in Africa
English World Wide
Geneve-Afrique
Index on Censorship
International Fiction Review
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Journal of Modern African Studies
Kriteria: A Nigerian Journal of Literary Research
Matatu (Wilson PL 8010 .M38x)
Mokwadi: Writers Workshop Journal
Okike
Présence Africaine
Research in African Literatures
Revue de Litterature Comparee
World Literature Today
We have many other serials about Africa of larger scope (such as African Studies Review or West Africa or Current Bibliography on African Affairs) that occasionally carry articles, book reviews, or bibliographies about African literature. Also, many other more general literary serials, such as Novel and the Journal of Caribbean Studies, carry articles on African Literature.
Indexes covering African literature include:
- African Studies Abstracts (Reference DT1 .A37x)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Reference quarto AI3 .A63)
- British Humanities Index (Reference IA3 .B7)
- Humanities Index (Reference AI3 .H85)
- Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines (Reference AI3 .I48)
- MLA International Bibliography (Reference quarto P 86 .M61x)
Within the computerized database FirstSearch, the following files cover African literature:
- A&H Search
- Humanities Index
- MLA