New Library Resource - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

The Library has recently purchased access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) of African History. 

This new resource is a comprehensive, online research encyclopedia that provides high quality and peer reviewed scholarship about African History. This authoritative and accessible reference tool is a significant addition to the Library's collections in this area and will be of interest to many subjects and disciplines.

The encyclopedia covers the entire range of African history and development, from Stone Age Archaeology in West Africa to the consideration of Post-Apartheid Memorialisation in South Africa.

Currently there are over 700 articles on this continually updated resource. Other examples include: 

• Africa and Its Diasporas under Slavery
• African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens
  
• Climate Change in Eastern Africa
• Land Resettlement and Restitution in Zimbabwe
• Red Sea Slave Trade
• Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement
• The Many Lives of Nelson Mandela
• Travelers Accounts as Sources

Search or browse the  Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) of African History via  Library Catalogue

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