ANTH 232: Peoples and Cultures of Africa: Newspaper Articles

Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.

Provides recent news content outside of the US and Canada in full-text format.

A full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Includes over 1000 papers, both domestic and international.

Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers.

Provides searchable full text to the newspaper that is often referred to as the national "newspaper of record" for the United States.

WSJ is often considered the world's leading financial newspaper but also covers other topics besides finance.

"afrol News is an independent news agency, established in 2000. The site covers the African continent, in English, Spanish, French and in Portuguese."

"AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 2000 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public." Highly recommended by Professor Millen.

African Newspapers / Africa News (by country). This site was "prepared by Karen Fung for the Information and Communication Technology Group (ICTG), African Studies Association, USA" and is hosted by Stanford University.

"World newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English, sorted by country and region."

"Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people." This site is helpful in determining the status of freedom of the press (media freedom) in a particular country.

"The website, with its archive of 21,000 positive news stories from around the globe, confirms what people already know—that good news itself is not in short supply; the broadcasting of it is."