LibGuides: African Studies: Images, video, and audio

Librarian for African & African American Studies

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236 Bostock Library
919-660-5930

Subjects: African & African American Studies, African American Studies, African Studies

Artstor This link opens in a new window
"Visual media from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists." Choose links to Browse - Artstor Collections - Geography to begin viewing images related to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Primary source research databases in African Studies
You'll find images in many of our primary source research databases in African studies.

Southern African Films and Documentaries This link opens in a new window
Search streaming films and documentaries from Southern Africa in the 1900s to present.
AVON (Academic Video Online) This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video titles across multiple Alexander Street/Proquest collections on diverse topics and formats that include feature films, newsreels, documentaries, field recordings, interviews and lectures. Producers include Sony Picture Classics, CNN, PBS, BBC Worldwide and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Some individual collections from Alexander Street/Proquest are also listed below, for example, Asian Film Online, Black Studies in Video, Dance in Video, etc.
Docuseek This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video of documentary and social issues films. Includes the Docuseek Complete Collection, Pragda Complete Film Collection, Good Docs, Icarus Films, Women Make Movies, and Collective Eye films.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Find and view streaming video. Includes thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines

See list of all streaming video databases at Duke Libraries.

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of historic field recordings from around the world, including supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
Find and listen to streaming folk and related music