United States of America
 
Specific locations in the U.S. for sets of microforms of African archives are found in the following compilations: David P. Henige's A Union List of Africana Archival Materials in Microform, 2nd ed. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1984); Kalala Ngalamulume's Africana Archival Materials in Microform in the Michigan State University Library: A List (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Library, 1993); and Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Africana Archives in Microform at Northwestern University Library. Comp. by Gregory Allan Finnegan (Evanston, IL: 1982).
 
United Kingdom
 
Sources in the United Kingdom are found in J.D. Pearson's A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to Africa. 2 v. (London: Mansell Pub., 1994). There is also J.H. McIlwaine's "Writings on African Archives," in African Research and Documentation, part 1 Africa General, 62 (1993): 25-41; part 2 Eastern & Central Africa, 63 (1993): 13-47; part 3 Southern Africa, 64 (1994): 22-55; part 4 West Africa (General & Anglophone), 66 (1994): 21-43, and part 5 West Africa (Non-Anglophone), 67 (1995): 12-26, recently published in one volume with the same title, with an essay by Anne Thurston and contributions by Pino Akotia & Justice Wamukoya (London; New Providence, NJ: Hans Zell Publishers, 1996).
 
Commonwealth Archives
 
Sources published by the Commonwealth Archivists Association in the United Kingdom are: Commonwealth Archivists Association. Commonwealth Sources in British Official Records: Colonial and Dominion Offices. London: 1985. 93p.; Burdett, Anita L.P. Summary Guide to the Archive and Manuscript Collections Relevant to the Former British Colonial Territories in the United Kingdom. London: Commonwealth Archivists Association, 1988. 97p.; and West African Sources in British Colonial Office Records. London: Commonwealth Archivists Association, 1987. 23p.  

Francophone Archives
 
Especially useful for French language archives is Laurence Porgès Sources d'information sur l'Afrique noire francophone et Madagascar: Institutions, répertoires, bibliographies. (see item 98), pp. 34-37, et passim.
 
Later Titles
 
Later titles can be found by searching online library catalogs on the Internet, e.g. the RLIN Catalog, especially its Books (BKS), and Archives and Manuscripts Control (AMC) files, the CRL Catalog, the OCLC Catalog, the Library of Congress Catalogs, the Northwestern University Library Catalog, and others. In particular, the RLIN Archives Manuscripts Control, AMC files include extensive collections of printed reports, official publications, as well as manuscripts by subject and organization under the names of African countries. Both Northwestern and Yale list their collections of printed as well as manuscript materials here.
 
Acknowledgments
 
Special thanks to Michael L. McNulty, Associate Provost, for funding an earlier draft of this guide, to Moore Crossey, Curator, African Collection, Yale University, to Charlene Lehman and Joseph A. Levi for help with diacritics.
 
Dedication
 
In memory of Anita K. Lowry who provided invaluable support for this project