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Africa

African Digital Repositories
Find full text dissertations, theses, reports, journal articles from African universities. https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.html

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://datad.aau.org/

Database of African Theses and Dissertations: Report of a Feasibility Study
No longer on the web.  See an 8 page report in PDF by Mary Materu-Behitsa. "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 bythe Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Its director was Lisbeth Levey. [KF] http://www.codesria.org/IMG/pdf/Mary_Materu_Behitsa.pdf  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

Ezema, Ifeanyi J., and C. I. Ugwu. ?Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Nigeria University Libraries: Status, Challenges and Strategies.?
Article online but requires a subscription. Some universities subscribe. Investigates "the current status of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) projects in Nigerian university libraries." "university libraries in Nigeria stand to benefit immensely from ETD projects. Some of these benefits as revealed from the findings include enhancing scholarly communication in Nigeria, promoting the global visibility of Nigerian universities, and enhancing research dissemination." From Electronic Library, Vol. 31, no. 4 (August 2, 2013): 493?507. doi:10.1108/EL-08-2011-0118.

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/

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

Université Cheikh Anta DIOP. Bibliothèque Numérique 
In French. Has online Masters and Ph.D theses, academic articles, UCAD publications, full text rare books.  Has for ex. Le Kajoor au XIXe siecle et la conquete coloniale. 1979/1980. By Mamadou Diouf. 461 pages. Takes a while to download.  http://bibnum.ucad.sn/

Universite Gaston Berger (Saint-Louis, Senegal)
In French. Full text theses. "Cette bibliothèque électronique recense tous les Thèses et Mémoires produits par l'Université Gaston Berger." http://www.beep.ird.fr/cgi-bin/library.cgi?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=ressourc&l=en&w=utf-8

Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)
In French. Mémoires et thèses de l'Université polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso. http://www.beep.ird.fr/cgi-bin/library.cgi?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=upb&l=en&w=utf-8

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

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.  [KF] http://bdtd.ibict.br/
Politica educacional da Guine-Bissau de 1975 a 1997.
Dramaturgia angolana no pos-colonialismo : sujeito, nacao e identidade na obra de Jose Mena Abrantes. A Sociedade da informacao : perspectiva para Angola.
Estilhacos da guerra na obra de Lobo Antunes e Pepetela.
Olhares sobre a educao bilingue e seus professores em uma regiao de Mocambique.
Escolaridade em Mocambique: diferenciais regionais e determinantes, 2003.
Estudo de elementos socio-culturais e economicos dos Vatshwa em Inhambane: Um Subsidio Etno-Historico para o Ensino Basico.
Tao longe, tao perto: organizacao familiar e emigracao feminina na Ilha da Boa Vista - Cabo Verde. Perspectiva historica da organizacao 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.

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

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 CR?ATION D'ENTREPRISE EN GUIN?E. ?tude 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

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] 

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/

RERO
In French. Online theses and dissertations from higher education institutions in Africa, France, Switzerland. Examples:

SUDOC Système universitaire de documentation 
Find these by author, title, year of publication, by relevance. From L'Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur. http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/

Theses.fr
In French. Database of citations for French doctoral theses from 1985 and In Progress theses of the last 10 years. Includes abstracts of the theses and which library holds the thesis. Some theses are freely available online. Maintained by ABES - Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur. Based in Montpellier, France. [KF] http://www.theses.fr/

 

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

Nambia

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

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

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/

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

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

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

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
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/index.php?html=/etds/etds.htm

University of the Free State Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Browse by subject, title, author or date to find full text dissertations online. See their Digital Repository including full text journal articles from Perspectives in Education, Journal for Contemporary History and more.  UFS is based in Bloemfontein. http://scholar.ufs.ac.za:8080/xmlui/handle/11660/607

University of Johannesburg. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Database (ETD-db)
Browse theses by subject, author, title or date. 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 KwaZulu Natal - ResearchSpace
"...access to full-text digital theses and dissertations." http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui

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 - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library
Full-text access to theses submitted for degree purposes at UWC. 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

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

RERO
In French. Online theses and dissertations from higher education institutions in Africa, France, Switzerland.
Examples:
Acces et recours aux soins de sante dans la sous-prefecture de Ouesse (Benin) / Jean-Luc Richard. - (Suisse), 2001. (1134 pages). http://www.rero.ch/La contribution de l'education a la croissance ?conomique du S?n?gal / Auteur: Sow, Abdramane, 2013

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 - EThOS
About EThOS. EThOS FAQ. Free online thesis or purchase copies. "Almost all UK universities make their theses available through the Service." One needs to register (free) if you want to download a thesis from EThOS or to order digitisation of a thesis." [KF] http://ethos.bl.uk/

Center for Research Libraries. Foreign Doctoral Dissertations
CRL, in Chicago, has foreign doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, etc.). CRL Members may borrow dissertations. http://www.crl.edu/collections/topics/dissertations

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. 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/Dissertations/dissertationsgeneral.html

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

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/

Lauer, Joseph - Recent Doctoral Dissertations About Africa
A listing of Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Compiled by Dr. Lauer, the Africana Librarian at Michigan State University. The lists also appeared in ASA News until mid 2009. Covers from March 2009 onwards. http://staff.lib.msu.edu/lauer/theses/index.htm

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/ See Lauer, Joseph below for current lists.

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
Doctoral Dissertations
CRL, in Chicago, has more than 800,000 doctoral dissertations (from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya, etc.). Background on the Dissertations.

CAMP Members may request dissertations for purchase by CRL.
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 International. A.The Humanities and Social Sciences
Link to Stanford's licensed copy.  The Stanford catalog has links to other versions of DA such as for science. Access to DA requires a license. DA has citations and abstracts to Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses. "Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637."

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-?konomische Wirkungen der Anlage von Steinkonturw?llen in kleinb?uerlichen 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

H-Luso Africa
Lists MA and PhD dissertation and theses in progress sent in by H-Luso Africa list members. Universities are from Africa, Europe, North America, South America. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/pages/103973/dissertations-and-theses-progress

Howard University. Center for African  Studies. Africa-Related Dissertations Database
https://cfas.howard.edu/Africa-Related-Dissertations-Database

Lauer, Joseph - Recent Doctoral Dissertations About Africa
A listing of Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Compiled by Dr. Lauer, the Africana Librarian at Michigan State University. The lists also appeared in ASA News until mid 2009. Covers from March 2009 onwards. http://staff.lib.msu.edu/lauer/theses/index.htm Note: Stanford University dissertations are no longer in Dissertation Abstracts as a routine matter. From approx. 2010 they will be listed in Google. See article from Stanford Report, October 29, 2009 - http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october26/electronic-dissertation-pilot-102909.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 Pennsylvania
Free online Univ of Pennsylvania dissertations. Also free abstracts for purchase only theses & dissertations. http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/ http://repository.upenn.edu/etd.html

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 other sources

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.

Universeity of Lagos - Ph.D. / M.Phil theses & dissertation abstracts 1970-2008
3rd. ed. Imprint: Lagos, Nigeria : University of Lagos Akoka-Yaba, School of Postgraduate Studies, 2008. 778 pages

Usmanu Danfodiyo University. Sokoto, Nigeria. Postgraduate School.
Book of abstract of masters and doctorate degrees. Vol. 3. February 2014.  573 pages. Covers the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

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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