Books and reports. Some 80.000 titles on politics, economics, contemporary history, anthropology, literature and other social sciences.

Modern African fiction. Novels, poetry and plays mainly in English, French, Portuguese and Swedish.

Reference literature. Encyclopaedias, dictionaries, yearbooks, statistics and thematic handbooks.

Journals and newspapers. Approximately 210 current journals about Africa and development issues, and African daily newspapers.

Electronic journals and books. An extensive number of journals, newspapers and e-books.

Official documents. Official documents — governmental publications — from African states. Mainly constitutions, development plans, population censuses, as well as reports and statistics on economy, trade, health, environment, education, gender, migration and so on.

Films. A small collection of feature films and documentaries.

Pamphlet collection. A collection of uncatalogued documents, in the form of essays, articles, brochures etc., which has been systematically arranged.

Maps. A basic collection consisting of atlases, country and general maps, as well as topographic and thematic maps. More information about the map collection.

Acqusition policy at the Nordic Africa Institute library Pdf, 460.6 kB. (rev. 2023-01-15)

Libris External link, opens in new window.. We're a part of the national union catalogue together with many other libraries in Sweden. Libris is also used for interlibrary loans by libraries throughout the Nordic countries.

Bibliotek.dk External link, opens in new window.. We're included in the Danish catalogue as any other library, meaning users in Denmark can search our materials and place orders for interlibrary loans from us through the service. We then send the materials to the user's local library.

Leitir.is External link, opens in new window.. This Icelandic search tool includes open access electronic materials we have selected for our library collection.

ilissafrica.de External link, opens in new window.. Portal for simultaneous search in the collections of several African Studies libraries across Europe – and more.

Africa-Wide Information External link, opens in new window.. Subscription database on a broad range of aspects of Africa from the 19th century to the present.

Do you think we lack a title that should be in our collections? Let us know and we will consider acquiring it.

Tell us also if you'd like to borrow the title when it arrives.

Send your e-mail to: library@nai.uu.se

We do at times receive donations of materials that are then included in our collections, making them available for research.

Please contact us beforehand with questions of this kind.

• Our donation agreement Pdf, 113.4 kB.