African Heritage Library

We provide access to authentic and diverse African knowledge, and encourage cultural literacy and historical consciousness.

• Library and resource centreBooks, journals and digital resources on African history, culture and contemporary issues.
• Workshops and seminarsProgrammes on heritage, identity and empowerment.
• ExhibitionsAfrican artefacts, art and historical documents.
• Research supportHelp for scholars and students in African studies.
• Community engagementCultural events, storytelling and youth programmes.

The books of the foundation’s earlier online library have been placed on these shelves. Editors are checking each record (author, date, summary and rights) before it is published, so some shelves are still being prepared.

• Being prepared · 4 in reviewAfrica and the diasporaAfricans and people of African descent in the Americas and the Caribbean.
• Being prepared · 7 in reviewAfrican philosophy and thoughtIntroductions, readers and studies of African and Africana philosophy and indigenous knowledge.
• Being prepared · 6 in reviewCCAF publicationsThe foundation’s own journal and handbooks: the Sankofa Youth Journal and the Kheper Handbook.
• Being prepared · 17 in reviewColonialism, slavery and resistanceStudies of the colonial era, slavery and the wars fought on African soil, and of how Africans resisted and endured them.
• Being prepared · 5 in reviewHistories of AfricaGeneral histories of the continent and of its great cities and kingdoms.
• Being prepared · 14 in reviewKemet: ancient Egypt and the Nile ValleyEgyptian civilisation, religion, language and literature, and the debates about Africa’s place in it, from Cheikh Anta Diop to today.
• Being prepared · 24 in reviewLiterature, languages and the artsAfrican and African diaspora literature, criticism, languages, theatre and art.
• Being prepared · 7 in reviewPan-Africanism and liberationThe thinkers, charters and journals of African unity and liberation.
• Being prepared · 11 in reviewPolitics, economics and developmentGovernance, conflict, aid and economic life in contemporary Africa.
• Being prepared · 8 in reviewReligion and spiritualityAfrican traditional religions, their study, and their journeys in the diaspora.
• Being prepared · 11 in reviewUNESCO General History of AfricaThe eleven volumes of UNESCO's General History of Africa, written largely by African scholars. Volumes I–VIII were published from 1981 to 1993; Volumes IX–XI,…