The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources Book

Zell provides a compact, timesaving, and annotated guide to print and electronic information sources in the African studies field. Now published in both print and online formats, the updated and revised third edition reflects the substantial changes since publication of the second edition in 1997. New coverage include links to publishers' online catalogues; references to print/online reviews appearing in two principal journals regularly covering new Africana reference works; major biographical, cartographic, film, and video sources; an Africanist documentation and African studies bibliography; African studies online discussion forums; African news sources and guides to African newspapers; a directory of academic and special libraries in Africa; and an annotated guide to Web sites and Internet documents on information and communication development in Africa. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR