duPont Library: Anthropology 304: Peoples and Cultures of Africa: Find News

Translating News Sources

If you are using Chrome, Google will usually offer to translate pages into whatever your browser's default language is. If you don't see a "translate" option when the page loads, simply right click anywhere on the page and click "Translate to [Your Language]."

Find News Sources from Africa

News from West, Central, East, and Southern Africa
This guide, from a librarian at Red Rocks Community College, provides helpful lists of newspapers from Africa. Some of these newspapers are in languages other than English. If you can't read the language of the newspaper, Google can translate it for you (you should see a message about this when the page loads). Google translate is not always accurate, but you can use it to get the gist of a story and then search for more news from other sources.
News from Middle East & North Africa
On this page, also from Red Rocks Community College, news sources from Egypt are in the box labeled "The Levant," while news sources from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan are in the box labeled "North Africa."
allAfrica
In their own words, "AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing news and information from over 140 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public." You can find news from all over Africa, and from governmental and non-governmental organizations, on this site.
Africa Times
This news site calls itself "an independent participative online news site for Sub-Saharan Africa." It covers politics and business, along with other topics. There is very little about this source on the internet, so double check stories and claims you read. Also check dates, as stories may stay on the front page for a few weeks or longer.
The Africa Report
This independent news magazine presents itself as "one of the leading news organisations on the continent" and an impartial source for pan-African news.

Google News

Google News
Search for countries or topics in this news aggregator from Google. News sources show up below the story titles.
Library Tip: If a story is from a source you don't recognize, look for the story from a trusted source or look up the source on Wikipedia to see if a trusted reference can vouch for it.

Blogs and Other Grassroots News Sources

Sahara Reporters
This citizen journalism project focuses on exposing government corruption in Africa and in Nigeria in particular.
Global Voices: Africa
A citizen journalism project that brings together writers, translators, academics, and human rights activists to share and translate stories and build bridges between cultures and communities.

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Anthropology 304: Peoples and Cultures of Africa

Africa Renewal (from the UN)

Translating News Sources

Find News Sources from Africa

Google News

Blogs and Other Grassroots News Sources