Africa background resources

Africa south of the Sahara.
London, Routledge / Europa Publications
1971-2019 Very good print reference source. Has extensive Country sections, essays such as China in Africa, France -  African Relations. 
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/349957

Africa contemporary record; annual survey and documents
1968/69 – 2001/2002  Good print source for historical background.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/349944

Africa Research Bulletin 1964 -
Economic, financial, and technical series
Political, social, and cultural series
Helps you find the dates of events, a year’s facts about a country. Search by country. Summarizes current news. Has annual  indexes
Online (from 1997) and print (from 1964) editions.

Africa Yearbook Online (Brill). 2004-2018
Covers politics, foreign affairs, socio-economic developments.

Cambridge Histories (includes Cambridge History of Africa)
Content on Africa from various titles. Includes Cambridge History of Africa - From the Earliest times to c. 1975 in 8 volumes online.

Country Watch
Politics, economics, military,business,history, social life, etc.

Encyclopedia of Africa / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
2 volumes
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8590696

Encyclopedia of South Africa [2011]
Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs, editors.
Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2011.
Online edition. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12970063
Print edition. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9371824

General history of Africa (UNESCO)
Abridged ed. London : J. Currey ; Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; Paris : Unesco, c1990-1999. 8 v.
Green Library. Information Center DT20 .G452 1990
Contents

1. Methodology and African prehistory / editor, J. Ki-Zerbo
2. Ancient civilizations of Africa / editor, G. Mokhtar
3. Africa from the seventh to the eleventh century / editor, I. Hrbek
4. Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth century / editors, Joseph Ki-Zerbo and Djibril Tamsir Niane
5. Africa from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
6. Africa in the nineteenth century until the 1880s / editor, J.F. Ade Ajayi
7. Africa under colonial domination 1880-1935 / editor, A. Adu Boahen
8. Africa since 1935 / editor, Ali A. Mazrui (reissued in unabridged form).

New encyclopedia of Africa / John Middleton, editor in chief ; Joseph C. Miller, editor.
Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, c2008. 5 v.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7677386

Historical Dictionaries of Africa
Some countries have online editions. Each African country has its own volume. Examples  – Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (name changes, maps, chronology, history, land & people, Historical Dictionary of  Eritrea, Historical Dictionary of Namibia.

Oxford bibliographies. African studies
Essays and annotated bibliographies by experts on African topics. Has British Colonial Rule in Sub-Saharan Africa, French Colonial Rule, German Colonial Rule, Belgian Colonial Rule, etc. http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10267401

Oxford Handbooks - History - African History
Signed articles by scholars. Topics include -

• Africa in the Atlantic World, C.1760 – C. 1840 
• African Literary Histories and History in African Literatures
• Chieftaincy
• Communications and Media in African History
• Demography and Disease 
• Ethnicity and Identity
• Health and Healing 
• Law, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Africa  By Richard Roberts
• New Religious Movements

Oxford Research Encyclopedias - African History
https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/
Has Christian History and Historiography, by Joel Cabrita.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias - African History also includes the contents of the book, Oxford encyclopedia of African historiography : methods and sources, edited by Thomas Spear which includes

• Colonial Conquest and Rule
• Numerical Data and Statistical Sources  
• Digital Approaches to the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade  
• Digital Sources in Europe for African History  
• Quantitative Methods and Economic Statistical Sources for African History  
• Newspapers as Sources for African History  
• Kingdoms of South-Central Africa: Sources, Historiography, and History
• Slavery and Slave Trade

Culture and Customs of.......................... A series of books on African countries. Example - Culture and Customs of Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, etc.