Granville High School Global Awareness Research

Resources on South Africa

African Resources

RESEARCH GUIDES

Studying Africa: A Guide to the Sources   Andersson, Marianne, ed. Studying Africa: A Guide to the Sources, 3rd ed. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014.

A Guide to Africa on the Internet is a free research-oriented online resources selected by the Nordic Africa Institute’s (NAI) Library staff.  This guide is regularly updated and is a thorough resource to African Studies research.  Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

GENERAL SOURCES

The African Union  The African Union (AU) replaced the Organization of African Unity (1963–2002) in 2002.  AU promotes unity and solidarity of African states, encourages economic development, and endorses international cooperation. 

Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984. This online consolidated version brings together every record collected since the bibliography's foundation, producing a rich and interactive resource for all scholars interested in the study of Africa.

CountryWatch database provides country specific background information, current events, global maps, governmental data, and political documents.  This database contains daily news and statistics on cultural, economic, demographic, political, and social topics.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, primary sources, and research reports. This database contains resources from the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and other academic fields. JSTOR’s primary source collections include “Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa” and “World Heritage Sites: Africa.”

Selected Articles

Rich / Poor Gap

 

Quality of Growth Empirics: Comparative gaps, benchmarking and policy syndromes ScienceDirect

The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Adult Mortality in Rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Directory of Open Access Journals

The ongoing challenge of restorative justice in south Africa: how and why wealthy suburban congregations are responding to poverty and inequality  Academic OneFile

 

AIDS

Determinants of viral load rebound on HIV/AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral therapy: results from South Africa Directory of Open Access Journals

Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa SwePub

Will the current National Strategic Plan enable South Africa to end AIDS, Tuberculosis and Sexually Transmitted Infections by 2022? Directory of Open Access Journals

Land Ownership

Assessing participation in homestead food garden programmes, land ownership and their impact on productivity and net returns of smallholder maize producers in South Africa Scopus®

From informality to formality to informality : Extralegal land transfers in an upgraded informal settlement of South Africa JSTOR

The historical context of land reform in South Africa and early policies  SciELO

Political Unrest

Patronage from below: Political unrest in an informal settlement in South Africa  Scopus®

Sacrifice After Mandela: Liberalism and Liberation Among South Africa's First Post-apartheid Generation.  Social Sciences Abstracts

South Africa's transition to democracy and democratic consolidation: A reflection on socio‐economic challenges. Business Source Complete

Africana Studies Librarian and Human Sciences Librarian

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