Resource Guide:
Sub-Saharan African Cultures

• Art and Life in Africa Project (Course)
• The Bright Continent: African Art History (Course)
• The Sifter (A Tool for Food History Research)

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth (access through Credo Reference Database)
• Art & Life in Africa
• The Conversation: African Literature
• The Conversation: Africa
• Smithsonian: National Museum of African Art
• Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of Africa
• Calabash! The UK’s African Music Guide

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa, Sub-Saharan—Civilization
• Africa, Sub-Saharan—Economic conditions
• Africa, Sub-Saharan—Foreign relations
• Africa, Sub-Saharan—Politics & government
• Africa, Sub-Saharan—Social conditions
• Africa, Central
• Africa, East
• Africa, Eastern
• Africa, Religion
• Afrocentrism
• Arts, African
• Mythology, Sub-Saharan African
• Hausa (African people)
• Igbo (African people)
• Maasai (African people)
• Zulu (African people)

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Credo Reference
• Education Research Complete
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• ERIC
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• MLA
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Journal of Southern African Studies
• Southern African Humanities
• African Studies
• Journal of Contemporary African Studies
• Critical African Studies
• Journal of World History
• Journal of Africa Cultural Studies
• African Languages and Cultures
• Matatu: Journal of African Culture and Society

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.