Historical Maps
1541 map of Africa (Princeton U.)
West Africa 1561 (U.of Florida)
1913 Map of African Religions (U. Texas)
Pink is "christian"; dark green is "heathen"
Maps & Atlases
Maps & Atlases
An overall guide to the history of mapping of Africa:
Maps and Mapping of Africa: A Resource Guide
GA1341 .M3 1997 by John McIlwaine. New Providence, N. J.: Zell, 1997.
The map/atlas section of the Woodruff Library's Reference Collection houses a number of titles related to Africa including:
Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa/ The World Conservation Union. G2446 .K3C6 1992
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
The New Atlas of African History
G2446.S1 F742 1991
By G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Historical Atlas of Africa
G2446 .S1 H5 1985
By J. F. Ade Ajayi. Hasko, Essex: Longman, 1985.
Maps are also found in the stacks, e.g.
The Atlas of Apartheid
G2566 .E625C5 1994
By A. J. Christopher. London: Routledge, 1994.
For electronic maps check
Africa Interactive Maps (CD-Rom 413) in the Beck Center
Africa Historical Map Web Sites and African Historical Maps maintained by the Perry-Castaneda Map Library of the University of Texas.
Maps of Africa, a guide to downloadable maps compiled by Joseph Caruso of Columbia.
Africa Map is a Harvard project intended to make spatial data on Africa easier for researchers to discover and explore.
Afriterra Foundation is a non-profit cartographic library and archive dedicated to assembling and preserving the original rare maps of Africa for educationa and interpretation. It maintains a searchable catalog which includes over 1000 high-reolution maps.
Two general map sites with African collections are:
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