PSCI 3410: African Political Systems : Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
Newspaper Databases
You might try the OnlineNewspapers.com database. This is a commercial site that links to thousands of newspapers arranged geographically. Since it is free, I am not sure how useful it will be, but it may be worth a try since you can search for newspapers by COUNTRY NAME. Be aware that the coverage may only be for the most recent several months.
- Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
This is a comprehensive resource that includes more than 8,000 news publications from nearly 200 countries worldwide, including major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles.
- Newsstream - International This link opens in a new window
International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
- allAfrica.com This link opens in a new windowThis African news site posts over 800 stories daily in English and French and offers multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in the archive, including the Africa News Service from 1996.
The Usefulness of Newspapers
Newspapers can be very useful for your research because they are so very current, with the major papers publishing every day.
Newspaper boxes on Washington Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.
(Attributed to Susan Lesch; Wikimedia Commons)
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