African Studies Theses and Dissertations

Sources for obtaining dissertations and theses on Africa-related topics (includes full text theses)

Africa (excluding South Africa)

Australia

Belgium

Africa (see also South Africa)

Adolescent Reproductive Health Network (ARHNe): Health System and Health Promotion Research in Eastern and Southern Africa: The program targets adolescent reproductive health and risk behaviors. Includes list of theses and dissertations from Makerere University, some South African universities and other universities. Funded by the European Commission, administered by the Univ. of Oslo. http://www.nutrition.uio.no/ARHNe/ [KF] http://www.nutrition.uio.no/ARHNe/

CODESRIA. List of Theses Sponsored by CODESRIA: (listed by subject, from 1998 to 2002). Lists, by subjects, of theses funded by CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa / Conseil pour le Developpement de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales en Afrique (Dakar). Provides author, title, degree, date, pagination, granting institution. [KF] http://www.codesria.org/Links/Training_and_Grants/list_of_theses.htm

Database of African Theses and Dissertations: "The DATAD database contains citations and abstracts for theses and dissertations completed in African universities. The launching database includes works from all subject areas in ten leading universities and include abstracts written by the authors." Register to see selected brief citations. Full access requires a subscription. Participating universities are from Cameroun, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. On the web site of the Association of African Universities based in Accra, Ghana. [KF] http://www.aau.org/datad/

Database of African Theses and Dissertations: Report of a Feasibility Study

"A feasibility study (Feb. 1999) for a pilot project to index and abstract theses and dissertations completed at African universities." Part of the Project for Information Access and Connectivity (PIAC) funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its director was Lisbeth Levey. [KF] http://www.piac.org/ Features include -

theses and dissertations completed at each university—by faculty and discipline
information on how theses are handled at each university surveyed
copyright practices for theses at surveyed universities
the state of internet connectivity at the universities

Histoire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: In French. Site created by historians from West African universities. Contents include un annuaire des historiens [with current research, publications, activities), chronologies for West Africa and each of the countries covered: Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger, Mali, Sénégal, and a databases of citations to history theses (Mémoires, maîtrises, DEA et thèses) from West African universities completed from 1970 à 2004. The study, Historiographie nigérienne, bilan critique et perspectives, by Kimba IKRISSA includes a list of theses on Niger and memoires de maitrise from the Universite de Niamey, with graphs and statistics on theses production. The web site has support from the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. [KF] http://www.histoire-afrique.org/

Kenyan Resources Database: "A project aimed at making available bibliographic information of theses and dissertations that have significant research carried out on or in Kenya." Locate theses by author, title, institution, year, and blocks of years. Those with theses or dissertations not in the database are welcome to include it. The Project Manager is S. Katuu of Vancouver, Canada. E-mail: kenyadb@yahoo.com [KF]
http://kenyadb.freeservers.com/

Memoire Online.

In French. Full text of Memoires completed at African and French universities. Some examples follow. Based in Paris, France. http://www.memoireonline.com/

Contribution à l'histoire économique du Soudan Français, le commerce colonial de 1870 à 1960 par Djibril Issa Niaré. Université de Bamako, Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines. http://www.memoireonline.com/05/07/451/contribution-histoire-economique-soudan-francais-commerce-colonial-1870-1960.html

Le nouveau système d'avancement au mérite face à la politisation de l'administration publique béninois par Aubin Sessou Adroh. Université d'Abomey-Calavie Ecole Nationale d'Administration. http://www.memoireonline.com/06/06/165/m_avancement-merite-politisation-administration-publique-benin0.html

La protection internationale des chefs d'états et des ministres en fonction: Cas du Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de la République Démocratique du Congo par Jimmy Mungala Feta. KINSHASA - République Démocratique du Congo. Premier cycle Droit. http://www.memoireonline.com/03/06/124/m_protection-internationale-chefs-d-etat-ministres-en-fonction0.html

L'Intégration Juridique en Afrique : L'exemple de l'UEMOA et de l'OHADA par Samba DIOUF. Université Cheikh ANTA Diop de DAKAR. Ecole Doctorale Régionale Africaine (EDRA) DEA en Droit de l'Intégration et du système OMC. http://www.memoireonline.com/05/07/466/m_integration-juridique-afrique-uemoa-ohada0.html

De L'exercice des droits et libertes individuels et collectifs comme garantie d'une bonne gouvernance en afrique noire : cas de la république démocratique du congo par Pierre Félix KANDOLO ON'UFUKU wa KANDOLO. Université de Nantes / Université de Lubumbashi DU 3eme cycle Droits fondamentaux. http://www.memoireonline.com/02/07/362/m_exercice-droits-libertes-individuelles-collectif-gouvernance-afrique-noire-rdc0.html

Le NEPAD ou l'ère de la conditionnalité intériorisée par Julien Vlassenbroek. Université de Louvain-La-Neuve (UCL). Diplôme d'études spécialisées en études du développement. http://www.memoireonline.com/06/06/164/m_nepad-conditionnalite-interiorisee0.html

Le droit à la justice au cameroun (à l'origine de l'accélération de la modernisation du code pénal camerounais) par Amadou Mbeyap Kutnjem Chaire. Unesco des Droits de la personne et de la démocratie,Université d'ABOMEY-CALAVI DEA. http://www.memoireonline.com/07/06/177/m_droit-justice-cameroun0.html

La problematique de la fraude fiscale sur le développement de la république démocratique du congo par Ghislain Kavula Mwanangana. Université de kinshasa licencié en droit. http://www.memoireonline.com/12/06/303/m_problematique-fraude-fiscale-developpement-republique-democratique-congo0.html

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: Find abstracts and full text theses and dissertations by language - Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga. Use the SCIRUS ETD Search to find titles by subject, author, title, institution. "(NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations." Based at Blacksburg, Virginia. http://www.ndltd.org/ http://alcme.oclc.org/ndltd/index.html

Register of Namibian Theses: Database of theses about Namibia. Access abstracts on theses by keyword, title, language, date. Full text theses will be available. [KF] http://greenstone.unam.na/gsdl/cgi-bin/library

See also the University of Namibia Library web site which has the Register of Theses and Dissertations.

UNESCO Clearinghouse of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: "A database of institutions (universities, libraries, computing centers, publishing houses, etc. with ETD [electronic theses and dissertations] projects), experts in the field of ETD, and technical and educational materials availabe on the Web to support and disseminate ETD." Includes the Particular Area Of Partnership Wanted. http://www.eduserver.de/unesco/

UNESCO Guide for Electronic Theses and Dissertations: For institutions interested in producing e-theses. "a resource for graduate students who are writing theses or dissertations, for graduate faculty who want to mentor ETD authors, for graduate deans who want to initiate ETD programs, and for IT administrators at universities." http://etdguide.org/

Universite Cheikh Anta Diop. Département d'Histoire: Publishes the journals, Revue Sénégalaise d’Histoire et Les Cahiers Histoire et Civilisations. Mémoires ou thèses can be ordered; lists of memoires and theses are online. Has memorials to scholars, lists of former students. Based at Dakar, Senegal. http://tekrur-ucad.refer.sn or http://tekrur.refer.sn

University of Botswana. History Department. Subject Index and Checklist of History and Archaeology Dissertations and Research Essays Submitted at the University of Botswana, 1976-1998: Lists four M.A. dissertations and 222 B.A. research essays. [KF] http://ubh.tripod.com/ac/studrp.htm

University of Ibadan. African Regional Centre for Information Science, ARCIS: Regional centre for information technology training, research and advisory services. Offers M.Sci., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees, workshops, seminars. Includes a list of Masters degree projects and Phd Theses. Courses in record management, internet publishing, software and information systems project management, business information systems design and applications, CDS/ISIS, etc. Based in Ibadan, Nigeria. [KF] http://www.arcisng.net/

University of Nigeria, Nsukka - Virtual Library: Full text Theses, Dissertations, Journal Articles, and research reports by Nigerian scholars for other organizations are on-line. Listing by Subjects/Categories. http://www.unn.edu.ng/index.php/Research-Documents/

Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs (ULPGL): In French. A university founded in 1990 by Protestant churches. Based in the city of Goma, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Has lists of Memoires completed for the Faculty of Law (in PDF), for the Faculty of Theology (in PDF), and for the Faculty of Management & Administration (in PDF). [KF] http://www.ulpgl.org

Australia

Australian Digital Theses Program: "...a national collaborative distributed database of digitised theses produced at Australian Universities....provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only." Databases of full text theses.

Includes - An examination of the impact of colonialism on cultural identity, by Denise Morden. http://adt.caul.edu.au/

A study to develop a strategic model for the Ethiopian tourism industry, by Teklehaimanot S. Shanka
Ideology as commodity : industry of a theocracy and production of famines in Ethiopia, by Liban Wako Adi.

The Quite Revolution: An analysis of the change toward below-replacement-level fertility in Addis Ababa, by Yohannes Kinfu Ashagrea.

Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis: the case of Rwanda, by Jaya Earnest.

Effectiveness of a performance appraisal system in the Mauritian public service: raters' and ratees',. by Nalini L. Luckheenarain

Improving Sahelian food security through facilitating action learning: a case study among the Fulbe Jelgobe of Northern Burkina Faso, by Paul Weekley.

Belgium

Universiteit Gent (Ghent University) - Afrikaanse Talen en Culturen: Find Masters theses (full text online, in Dutch) and abstracts of Ph.D. theses in English (some in full text - English in Tanzania: an anatomy of hegemony, by Stephen Mugeta Neke, 2002 and Adoption Potential of two Agroforestry Technologies: Improved Fallows and Domestication of Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Humid Forest and Savannah Zones of Cameroon, by Ann M. I. Degrande, 2005). The University is in Ghent, Belgium. http://www.africana.ugent.be/

Brazil

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações, BDTD: In Portuguese. A Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations from higher education institutions in Brazil. A database of citations and of full text online theses. Examples of full text theses below. http://bdtd.ibict.br/

Politica educacional da Guine-Bissau de 1975 a 1997.
Dramaturgia angolana no pós-colonialismo : sujeito, nação e identidade na obra de José Mena Abrantes. A Sociedade da informação : perspectiva para Angola.
Estilhaços da guerra na obra de Lobo Antunes e Pepetela.
Olhares sobre a educação bilingue e seus professores em uma região de Moçambique.
Escolaridade em Moçambique: diferenciais regionais e determinantes, 2003.
Estudo de elementos sócio-culturais e econômicos dos Vatshwa em Inhambane: Um Subsídio Etno-Histórico para o Ensino Básico.
Tão longe, tão perto: organização familiar e emigração feminina na Ilha da Boa Vista - Cabo Verde. Perspectiva historica da organização do sistema educacional da Guine-Bissau.
CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES EM SITUAÇÃO DE RUA NA CIDADE DE PORTO NOVO: CABO VERDE E SUAS ESTRATÉGIAS DE SOBREVIVÊNCIA..

Canada

American Historical Association. Directory of Dissertations in Progess: Database of dissertations in progress in the U.S. and Canada. Dissertations are submitted by the university department. http://www.theaha.org/pubs/dissertations/

Canadian Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations on Africa, 1905 - 1993: Citations to dissertations can be retrieved by region or country. From the Canadian Association of African Studies. http://caas.concordia.ca/htm/Page/acea.htm

Érudit: In French, some English. Find full text theses through a keyword Search.
Erudit is a Canadian university sponsored project to disseminate the results (journals, books, theses, eprints) of university research. http://www.erudit.org/

Examples of theses:
FACTEURS SOCIOCULTURELS ET CRÉATION D'ENTREPRISE EN GUINÉE. Étude exploratoire des ethnies peule et soussou, by Boubacar Diakité (Ph.D. Universite Laval, 2004)

National Library of Canada. Theses Canada: In English and French. "Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965;
Access for free the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002;..." [KF] http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html

ProQuest Digital Dissertations: Citations and abstracts for U.S. and Canadian Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses. The same database as the UMI Dissertations Abstracts. Unless your institution subscribes to ProQuest you can only search for the last two years. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations

France

ABES - SUDOC, Systeme universitaire de documentation: Catalog of French university libraries (and includes some other major libraries). Contains dissertations, and is searchable by author, title, etc. Once you have found the citation, click on "Localisation" and the holding libraries will appear. Click on this, and you will see if it is available for ILL (Disponible pour le PEB [pret - entre - bibliotheques]), click again for information on the library. Some dissertations will have two entries, one for the microfilm, which seems to be more likely to be loaned out (especially since it should be also in ANRT). [SS] http://corail.sudoc.abes.fr/LNG=FR/DB=2.1/IMPLAND=Y/DB_START

Association de chercheurs du Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Juridique de l'Université de Paris 1, ACAJ: In French, English, Spanish. Includes a list of doctoral students and their research topics, many on Africa. http://www.acaj.org/

Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses: "Toutes les thèses françaises récentes sont disponibles sous forme de micro-fiches que l'on peut acheter. See also the ABES web site. Supplies "thèses de Lettres, Sciences Humaines, Arts et Droit soutenues dans les universités françaises..." [KF] http://www.anrtheses.com.fr/
Adddress: 9, rue Auguste Angellier, 59046 LILLE CEDEX, Tél. : 03.20.30.86.73, Fax : 03.20.54.21.95, E-mail: anrt@univ-lille3.fr

Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages, CRLV - Theses: In French. "fondé en 1984 est une équipe d’accueil de l’École doctorale de Littératures françaises et comparée de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)." Their Newsletter, Lettres du Voyageur, has citations to recent theses (such as Les Récits de voyage en Afrique subsaharienne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, by Paulo Alves Vaz, DEA de Littérature et civilisation françaises, Université Paris-Sorbonne, septembre 2004, 95 p., Directeur : François Moureau). http://www.crlv.org/crlv/viati-web.php#Anchor-Afrique-47857

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. Use the Keyword (or Author, Institution, Title, etc.) search. [KF] http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp

Centre d’étude d’Afrique noire. Le réseau DIAM: "Organisé en 2 parties, ce cédérom propose une base de données bibliographiques riche de 3805 références analytiques de mémoires soutenus dans des ENA de l'Afrique francophone et, d'autre part, donne pour 21 pays d'Afrique et Haïti, un ensemble de données concernant leur situation institutionnelle, la chronologie des principaux évènements depuis leur indépendance, une liste d'organismes et une sélection bibliographique." "Fondé en 1958, le Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire (CEAN) est l'un des principaux centres de recherche internationaux pour l'analyse du politique en Afrique." See also the entry for ENA below. http://www.cean.sciencespobordeaux.fr/documentation4.htm

Clio en Afrique

In French. No. 1, printemps 1997, of an electronic journal from the Groupe de recherche (GDR) 1118 du CNRS, "Histoire de l'Afrique: Mémoires et Identités (XVIIème-XXème siècles)". Based at the Université de Provence. http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~wclio-af/ The first issue includes:

a selective list of French doctoral theses from 1995-janv.1997
summaries of two theses

No. 2, été 1997 has recent doctoral theses

No. 3 has a List of theses en cours
Comptes-rendus et orientations de thèses

Ecole nationale d'administration, ENA: Has some of its masters in public administration memoires in full text online. "L'Ecole nationale d'administration recrute et forme la haute fonction publique de l'Etat." "ENA has welcomed many foreign students in its « International Cycles » since 1949." http://www.ena.fr/; Impacts des politiques d'ajustement structurel sur le fonctionnement de l'administration publique au Niger / Boubakar Tiemogo; La réforme de l'administration territoriale au Cameroun / Charles Nanga; Décentralisation et institutions publiques territoriales à Madagascar : processus et perspectives / Laza Andrianirina

Fichier Central des Thèses: Database of doctoral theses in progress in French universities and higher educational establishments. "More than 80 institutions are partners of the Fichier central des theses which records approximately 9000 annually subjects of doctoral theses. The database is continually being updated. The Fichier central des thèses is of vital importance to postgraduate students both in choosing their research topic and in discovering work being done on related topics." Disciplines covered: Humanities and Arts, Languages and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, History, Geography, Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Education, Sociology, Theology and Religious Studies, Law, Political Studies, Politics and International Relations, Business and Economics." Maintained by Université Paris X Nanterre, France. http://fct.u-paris10.fr/

Lettre de CEAN (Centre d'étude d'afrique noire, Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux): In French and English. The full text is available in Adobe pdf and in text rtf formats. Lists a few theses. The CEAN is part of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux. http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/anglais/lettre.html

Memoire Online.

In French. Full text of Memoires completed at African and French universities. Some examples follow. Based in Paris, France. http://www.memoireonline.com/

Contribution à l'histoire économique du Soudan Français, le commerce colonial de 1870 à 1960 par Djibril Issa Niaré. Université de Bamako, Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines. http://www.memoireonline.com/05/07/451/contribution-histoire-economique-soudan-francais-commerce-colonial-1870-1960.html

Universite Paris 7 - Laboratoire Societes en Developpement dans l'Espace et dans le Temps (SEDET)

Multi-disciplinary research unit on comparative studies of the Third World.

L'Afrique à Paris 7 site covers activities at Université Paris 7 -

1999-2003 theses
a 14 p. + list of "Maîtrises et DEA" by country
Research (Maîtrise-histoire, DEA, Mémoire de fin d'études) from the Universite Nationale du Benin, Universite de Ouagadougou, Universite Nationale de Brazzaville, Universite d'Abidjan, Universite de Conakry, Ecole Normale Superieure de Bamako, Universite de Niamey, Universite de Dakar.

Paris 7: http://www.sedet.cicrp.jussieu.fr/sedet/Afrilab/Afrhome.htm
SEDET:http://www.sedet.jussieu.fr

Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille. Service commun de documentation - Littérature grise de langue francaise

In French. Based at Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. http://bibliotheques.univ-lille1.fr/grisemine
Has a database of on-line full text theses from European universities such as -

Accès et recours aux soins de santé dans la sous-préfecture de Ouessè (Bénin) / Jean-Luc Richard. - (Suisse), 2001. (1134 pages). In Adobe pdf.

L'alphabétisation en milieu urbain au Mali: offre de formation et besoins des populations / Ag Muphtah, Elmehdi. - (France), 2003. (277 pages) In Adobe pdf.

Orientation scolaire au sortir de la classe de troisième de l'enseignement secondaire général public au Gabon / Nguema Endamne, Gilbert. - (France), 2003. (413 pages) In Adobe pdf.

India

University of Mumbai. Centre for African Studies. Doctoral Dissertation: Has a list of Ph.D. dissertations awarded or in progress at the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India. http://www.mu.ac.in/africanstudies/african_dissertation.htm

Namibia

Register of Namibian Theses: Database of theses about Namibia. Access abstracts on theses by keyword, title, language, date. Full text theses will be available. [KF] http://greenstone.unam.na/gsdl/cgi-bin/library

See also the University of Namibia Library web site which has the Register of Theses and Dissertations.

Netherlands

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. Use the Keyword (or Author, Institution, Title, etc.) search. [KF] http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dbdissertations/search.asp

Leiden University. Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS): Their monthly Agenda includes lists of Ph.D. theses. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/interfac/cnws/agenda/index.html

Scandinavia

Agricultural University of Norway - Theses: Has many conservation, agricultural projects in Africa. Has a list of masters theses, many on Africa. Provides "education in agriculture, food sciences, management and conservation of natural resources, landscape and community planning and aquaculture." [KF] http://www.nlh.no/noragric/

University of Bergen - M.A. Theses on Africa: Some M.A. theses for the University are listed on the Chr. Michelsen Institute site. http://www.cmi.no/research/studdiss.htm
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway): In Danish. List of masters' theses from 1957 to date. Recent theses have abstracts. Some are on African topics. http://www.sai.uio.no/studier/hoyere_grad/sammendrag-kandidatoppgaver/

Uppsala University - Theses Database: "database contains the theses of Uppsala University from 1998 to date as well as some theses from 1997. It is an electronic continuation of the printed list Scripta academica and contains 3221 titles including abstracts. As from September 2000 1478 comprehensive summaries and 100 monographs have also been published in full-text."
Example - Lindholm, K-J. 2006. Wells of Experience: A pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia. Studies in Global Archaeology 9. Uppsala: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. http://publications.uu.se/theses/?lang=en

South Africa

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. Search the Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database. [KF] http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=3&l2=15&l3=30

NISC's Biblioline - Index to South African Theses and Dissertations: Subscription only web database of South African doctoral and masters theses. Some libraries subscribe, thru the web or to the CD-ROM. Web subscribers select "Subscribers click here for databases", then select "South African Studies". You can limit your search to the theses index. [KF] http://www.nisc.com/

Online Union Catalogs: A search on the subject Dissertations South Africa in online catalogs such as World Catalog will retrieve many print sources for dissertations.

Rhodes University Library: Rhodes has started to put their dissertations online. Abstracts are available, but the full text is open only to Rhodes University users. [KF] http://opac.seals.ac.za/search/X?(rhodes)+and+(thesis)&searchscope=2&Da=&Db=&SORT=D

For example see, Van Vlaenderen, Hilde Rachel Maurice, "Group problem solving among community activists in a South African setting: an everyday cognition approach" (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1997. Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 1997.)

University of Cape Town: "The University of Cape Town does not currently offer electronic access to its theses, with the exception of the Law Faculty, which has its own digital repository, and the Computer Science Department, which offers electronic theses in its CS Research Document Archive." http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php?html=/etds/etds.htm

University of the Free State ETD Collection: Browse by author or department or search for specific words to find full text dissertations online. UFS authors can submit their theses online. UFS is based in Bloemfontein. Browse Authors: http://etd.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/ETD-browse/browse Browse Departments: http://etd.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/ETD-browse/browse?first_letter=A;browse_by=department Search: http://etd.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/ETD-search/search

University of Johannesburg. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Database (ETD-db): Browse theses by author or department. Provides abstracts. The full text is in PDF. The University of Johannesburg was formed from a merger between Rand Afrikaans University, Technikon Witwatersrand and several campuses of Vista University. http://etd.rau.ac.za/

University of Natal. Graduate Program in Cultural & Media Studies (Durban): Has the full text of masters theses, honours projects, and South African television reports. Example: Bhekizulu Mpofu. (1996). Corporate monopoly in the South African print media: Implications for the alternative press with particular reference to New Nation. [KF] http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/index.htm

University of Pretoria Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Browse by department or author or search for specific words to find full text theses and dissertations online. A few require a password to access and some are not available online at all. Has a link to other theses sites worldwide. http://upetd.up.ac.za/

Example of full text - The psychological impact of guerilla warfare on the boer forces during the Anglo-Boer war. By A. J. McLeod.
The Natal Afrikaner and The Anglo-Boer War. By Johannes Michiel Wassermann.

University of South Africa - UnisaETD : Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Free access to abstracts and the full text of recent (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) Unisa theses and dissertations. Browse by author or department. See Examples. [KF] http://etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/ETD-browse/browse

University of the Western Cape. UWC Theses Online: Full-text access to theses as submitted for degree purposes at UWC. http://ww3.uwc.ac.za/index.asp?webpageid=3681&pagemode=

Also see the newer Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/

University of the Witwatersrand. Electronic Theses & Dissertations: Search for Wits masters and doctoral theses and dissertations in their online catalog; but full text access is restricted. Use keyword thesis and your subject. http://hermes.wits.ac.za/www/Library/ETD%20intro/etd_info.htm

Switzerland

Swiss National Library: One can order from the National Library copies of dissertations on African topics completed at Swiss universities. http://www.snl.ch

For a list of Swiss dissertations, see Pfister, Roger (1997). Bibliography of Swiss Doctoral Dissertations on sub-Saharan Africa, 1897-1996. Berne,
Switzerland: Swiss National Commission for UNESCO. 76p.

The list by Pfister, plus updates, are on the CD-ROM "African
Studies" sold by the National Information Services Corporation
(NISC): http://www.nisc.com

United Kingdom

African Studies Association of the U.K. - Africanist Theses Recently Accepted at U.K. Universities: List of theses from 2005 onwards. http://www.asauk.net/theses.html

British Library. British Thesis Service: Purchase copies of theses, mainly from the 1970s to the present day. "Almost all UK universities make their theses available through the Service." "The British Library also offers a limited thesis search service, covering 1980 to date." [KF] http://www.bl.uk/britishthesis

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database: CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Titles are being added to the main CRL catalog and the databased is not being updated. CRL Members may borrow dissertations.

Use the Keyword (or Author, Institution, Title, etc.) search. For example, searching on the Keyword Nigeria retrieves these dissertations -

The history of indigenous leather industry in Sokoto and Kano, Northern Nigeria 1903-1960, by Anagboju, Ifeanyi (Univ. of Birmingham)
Land use and industrialization in Lagos, Nigeria, by Amos, Ajato (Univ. of Leicester)

CISTI, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information: Has a document supply service, is reportedly able to supply on microfilm UK theses for $50.00. They are partners with the British Library Document Supply Centre.
Phone: 1-800-668-1222 (Canada & US) or (613) 993-9251
Fax: (613) 993-7619
E-mail: cisti.info@nrc.ca
http://www.nrc.ca/cisti

Harvard University. Atlantic History Seminar. Dissertations in Atlantic History: Abstracts only. Has for the University of College, London, "The Sons of Neptune and the Sons of Ham: Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes" by Emma Christopher. [KF] http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/theses.html

Index to Theses: Subscription access only. "listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716." Cost - £410 and up depending on region. [KF] http://www.theses.com/

Institute of Historical Research (University of London, School of Advanced Study) - History On-Line: Its History On-Line has a keyword searchable database of U.K. history theses completed and in progress. Publishes the print annual, Theses in Progress, which lists theses on Africa in progress or completed at U.K. universities. [KF] http://www.history.ac.uk/

University of Kent (Canterbury), Centre for Social Anthropology & Computing: Has a U.K. social anthropology theses database covering mainly 1960s-1990s B.Litt (Oxford), Masters, and doctorates. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Theses/theses_intro.html

United States

Academic Dissertation Publishers: Mainly U.S. Ph.D. dissertations and Masters theses online. The "first 25 pages are available free of charge." Obtain a copy of complete dissertations in Adobe PDF format for $6 or order a bound copy starting at $19.95. Titles include "Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa: the allocation of property rights and implications for development," by Sandra F. Joireman (1995, UCLA). [KF] http://www.dissertation.com/

African Studies Association (U.S.): Issues of the organization's ASA News contain bibliographies of U.S. and Canadian dissertations on Africa, Recent Doctoral Disserations, compiled by Joseph Lauer. They are arranged by subject. Example - July 2007, Vol. 40, No. 3 (47 p. in PDF). http://www.africanstudies.org/

American Historical Association. Directory of Dissertations in Progess: Database of dissertations in progress in the U.S. and Canada. Dissertations are submitted by the university department. http://www.theaha.org/pubs/dissertations/

Center for Research Libraries: Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database; CRL, in Chicago, has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.); only about 12,000 of these are in the online database. Members may borrow dissertations. Search the Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database. [KF] http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=3&l2=15&l3=30; For the many dissertations not yet cataloged, you can see a numerical listing of titles by putting P- in the Call Number search form. Example of CRL dissertations -
Author: Nessmann, Victor-Edouard
Title: Voies d'accès aux Carrières médicales Coloniales / par Victor-Edouard Nessmann
Imprint: 1927; CAMP members may request dissertations for purchase.; CAMP By-Laws, Appendix II: Schedule of Demand Purchase Expenses
1. Items costing up to $200 - requests go directly to CAMP administrator at CRL who processes the request.
2. Items costing $200-$600 - requests go to the Chairperson of the CAMP Executive Committee who acts upon the request following the guidelines of CAMP policy. The Chairperson forwards the request to the CAMP administrator at CRL for processing.

Diplomica Online: Provides Ph.D. dissertations and masters theses by e-mail or in print form. No prices given. Based in Pittsburg, PA, they work with U.S. and German academic organizations such as NDLTD, Bavarian State Libraries. [KF] http://www.diplomica.com/

Dissertation Abstracts: UMI Online Dissertation Services sells copies of dissertations which you can locate through Dissertation Abstracts which many universities subscribe to; ask your Reference Librarian. Citations and abstracts for U.S. and Canadian Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses. [Stanford users access through Proquest Digital Dissertations or see Dissertation Abstracts on the All Databases page.] [KF] http://www.umi.com/hp/Products/Dissertations.html; Stanford Users see Dissertation Abstracts and Stanford full text dissertations online. You need to put and between the search keywords

Dissertation.com: "The primary function of Dissertation.com is to provide students, researchers, and the general public with low cost access to important academic work." Each title is about $30. One can see the first 25 pages for free (in Adobe PDF format). Has for ex. "Sozio-ökonomische Wirkungen der Anlage von Steinkonturwällen in kleinbäuerlichen Betrieben der Provinz Bam/Burkina Faso," by Dagmar Kunze and "Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa: the allocation of property rights and implications for development" by Sandra F. Joireman. The theses are also available thru e-book sellers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders. [KF] http://www.dissertation.com/

H-Africa: Lists dissertation information sent in by H-Africa members since 1995. Includes an abstract supplied by the author. http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/biblio/index.html

Levine, S. Joseph - Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation: Dr. Levine is with the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. http://www.msue.msu.edu/aee/dissthes/guide.htm

MIT Theses Online: Has selected MIT theses only. For example, has the full text of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's thesis, "International joint venture with a government partner case study: copper mining in Zambia." http://theses.mit.edu/

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: Find abstracts and full text theses and dissertations by language. Use the SCIRUS ETD Search to find titles by subject, author, title, institution. "(NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations." Based at Blacksburg, Virginia. http://www.ndltd.org/ http://alcme.oclc.org/ndltd/index.html; Examples of full text Ph.D. dissertations:; The Groundnut Market in Senegal: Examination of Price and Policy Changes, by James Katon Gray (Ph.D. Virginia Tech, Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2002.)

Spatio-Temporal Effects of Land Use Changes in A Savanna Wildlife Area of Kenya, by Enos E.Esikuri (Ph.D. Virginia Tech, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, 1998.)

Ohio University Libraries - African Studies-Related Dissertations and Theses: List, by country then by subject, of Ohio University's African studies theses. http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/africa/diss.html

Stanford University Dissertations: Open only to Stanford users. Full text dissertations from 1989 + in Adobe .pdf format. Many universities also have their own dissertations online open only to their users; please ask your librarian. Files are large (ex. 17 MB) and need to be downloaded to your computer. [KF] http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/stanford/main

University of Florida Africa-Related Dissertations and Theses, 1956 +: Arranged by author with subject and country indexes and indexes by department and degree. http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/disserta.htm

University of Pittsburg - Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Full text on-line theses and dissertations. http://www.pitt.edu/%7Egraduate/etd/

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Africa-Related Theses and Dissertations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988-2000 (arranged by subject) http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/Library/Diss1988-2000.html; Africa-Related Theses and Dissertations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1921-1988 [KF] http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/Library/Diss1921-88.html

University of Pittsburg. Health Sciences Library System - Recent Dissertations in the Medical Humanities: Citations only. [If your university subscribes to ProQuest Digital Dissertations, you may see abstracts and selected pages.] Includes some Africa-related dissertations. See for ex. the subjects: AIDS (Social and Historical Contexts), Public Health/International Health, etc. Maintained by John Erlen, University of Pittsburgh. [KF] http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/researchresources/dissertations/index_html

Print (and CD) Sources for Dissertations

ASA News "Recent Doctoral Dissertations" - by Joseph J. Lauer and others.: Each issue of the African Studies Association (U.S.) newsletter, ASA News, carries a list, by subject, of recent American, Canadian, and U.K. dissertations

Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) Foreign doctoral dissertations purchased on demand by the Center for Research Libraries.: Chicago : The Center [1980?]. 29 p. [At Stanford, see: Hoover Reference Librarian's Desk Z3509 .C46

Center for Research Libraries. Handbook. Dissertations.: Has a list of world wide print sources for dissertations. Describes their dissertation collection program (most are not cataloged). Based in Chicago. http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=11

Chanson-Jabeur, Chantal.: L'Histoire africaine en Afrique : recensement analytique des travaux universitaires inedits soutenus dans les Universites francophones d'Afrique noire ... / Chantal Chanson-Jabeur, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, eds. Paris : L'Harmattan, 1995. 245 p.

Denzer, LaRay. "Africans with Northwestern University Ph.D.s.": In Vision and Policy in Nigerian economics: the Legacy of Pius Okigbo, edited by Jane I. Guyer and LaRay Denzer. Lagos, Nigeria: Centre for Social Science Research and Development.

Gerdes, Paulos: African Doctorates in Mathematics. A Catalogue and Doctoral Theses by Mozambicans and about Mozambique can be ordered in print or digital form from the Lulu.com site. Lulu was founded by Bob Young, the co-founder of Red Hat, the Linux company. http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes

Larby, Patricia M.: Theses on Africa completed at U.K. universities, 1994-1996: Part 1, Africa in general, West Africa, Central Africa, in African Research & Documentation, No. 77, 1998

Larby, Patricia M.: Theses on Africa completed at U.K. universities,
1994-1996: Part 2, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, in African Research & Documentation, No. 78, 1998

University of Swaziland. Master's Degree Abstracts.: Vol. 1. Abstract Numbers 1-40. Luyengo: UNISWA Research Centre, 2005. 64 pages. Organization by Prof. O. T. Edje.

Portuguese Studies Review - Dissertations and Theses Section: Lists dissertations on Lusophone Africa from the U.K., Portugal, Canada, U.S. Based at the Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire.

Synopses of abstracts of Ph.d and master theses : 1990-2007.: By V. O. Aghayere, V. A. Uhunmwangho, and M. E. Ufuah. Ekpoma [Nigeria]: School of Postgraduate Studies, Ambrose Alli University, 2007. 869 p. ISBN: 9789780823658

Union List of Theses and Dissertations held by Universities and Research Institutions in Kenya: Nairobi: Kenya Information Preservation Society. Annual. Began publication with Issue no. 1 (Mar. 2003) - no. 2 (2005). On CD-ROM.

Yale University. African Collection: Has a list of print sources for dissertations about Africa. http://www.library.yale.edu/african/VIII.htm

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