1 Although there are a few works from the 16th century, in the BNF, for example.Google Scholar

2 Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Centre d'Études Africaines (Centre for African Studies).Google Scholar

3 A search using the generic descriptor “Africa” is often fruitless: “too many results”. In other cases, it is uncertain whether this descriptor is actually present in the notes of all the works that should be counted.Google Scholar

4 For example, the project for the constitution of a Social and Human Sciences documentary network for sub-Saharan Africa, proposed by Michel Aghassian (EHESS) in 1985.Google Scholar

5 For example, the Bibliothèque des langues et civilisations orientales.Google Scholar

6 It should be noted, however, that Afrilivres, the Association of sub-Saharan French-language publishers, strongly supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been doing its best since 2002 to fill the vacuum in the French-speaking zone (http://www.afrilivres.com/).Google Scholar

7 For several years now, this office has also been collecting the literature produced in French-speaking countries.Google Scholar

8 The Bibliothèque Administrative de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris Administrative Library); the Bibliothèque de l'Académie des Sciences d'Outre-mer (Library of the Academy of Overseas Sciences - Paris); the Bibliothèque de la Documentation Française (Library of French Documentation - Paris); the Service Commun de la Documentation de l'Université de Provence (Joint Documentation Service of the University of Provence - specialised in the history of French colonization up until the First World War); the Bibliothèque des Archives d'Outre-mer (Library of Overseas Archives - Aix-en-Provence).Google Scholar

9 The Bibliothèque de la Fédération Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Library of the National Federation of Political Science - Paris); the Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine (Library of Modern International Documentation - Nanterre).Google Scholar

10 Bibliothèque Universitaire de Langues Orientales (University Library of Oriental Languages), which will become the basis of the BULAC.Google Scholar

11 The Médiathèque du Quai Branly (Paris); the Bibliothèque du Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (Laboratory of Social Anthropology, Paris); the Bibliothèque Eric-de-Dampierre (Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative - Maison René-Ginouvès, Université Paris X-Nanterre).Google Scholar

12 Bibliothèque du Saulchoir (Dominicains), Paris ; Bibliothèque d'histoire de la mission et de missiologie, Service protestant de mission Défap, ParisGoogle Scholar

13 Approximately 25,000 works per library.Google Scholar

14 http://www.cean.sciencespobordeaux.fr/documentation.htmGoogle Scholar

15 http://ceaf.ehess.fr/document.php?identifiant=bibliothequeGoogle Scholar

16 BULAC, Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (University Library of Languages and Civilisations) is planned to open in 2008. It will be made up of the holdings of the Bibliothèque de l'lnstitut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Library of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations) and a group of research libraries belonging to nine partner establishments: the Universities of Paris I, Paris III, Paris IV and Paris VII, CNRS, EPHE, EHESS and the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies). The holdings will be dedicated to world cultures and civilisations: Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Amerindian civilisations (http://www.bulac.sorbonne.fr).Google Scholar

17 http://www.cemaf.cnrs.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=49Google Scholar

18 CEMAf - Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains (Centre for the Study of African Worlds) http://www.cemaf.cnrs.fr/Google Scholar

19 Under the name “Dépôt des Archives de la Marine et des Colonies”.Google Scholar

20 Ancient Ministerial Archives (Colonies) before 1815, and Modern Ministerial Archives (after 1816). See Favier, Jean (ed.), Les Archives nationales. Etat général des fonds. Tome III Marine et Outre-mer (Paris, Archives nationales, 1980).Google Scholar

21 It should be noted that administrative archives (finance, economy, public works, education, health, local administration) have remained in place, and in particular, as far as black Africa is concerned, in Dakar, capital of AOF (French West Africa).Google Scholar

22 Volumes 3 (1970) and 4 (1976) are dedicated to French archives and libraries (1971). The whole collection is published by Inter Documentation Company (Zug, Switzerland)Google Scholar

23 Diaries and letters of French people working in countries under colonial administration, for exampleGoogle Scholar

24 See, in particular, the work of the “Réseau des archives des ethnologues” (Network of ethnologists’ archives): http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/reseauethno/Google Scholar

25 http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/Google Scholar

26 http://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/servlet/LoginServletGoogle Scholar

27 http://www.persee.fr/Google Scholar

28 http://www.revues.org/Google Scholar

29 Euro-African association for the anthropology of social change and developmentGoogle Scholar

30 http://www.cairn.info/accueil.php. For the journal Afrique et histoire, from issue number 1 (2003) up to the most recent issue.Google Scholar

31 http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/liste.html (full text: n° 1 (1981) to n° 83 (2001).Google Scholar

32 http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/∼wclio-af, n° 1 (1997)-Google Scholar

33 http://www.africa.u-bordeaux.fr/links.aspGoogle Scholar

34 http://www.etudes-africaines.cnrs.fr/Google Scholar

35 See the work carried out by the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale on the photographic collections of Carlos Valiente Noailles and Ariane Deluz http://las.ehess.fr/document.php?id=66 and by the Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, in particular on the Marcel Griaule collection: http://www.mae.u-paris10.ff/bibethno/Google Scholar

36 http://cybertheses.francophonie.org/ offers, amongst other things, 220 theses digitized and put on-line at the University Cheikh Diop in Dakar (Senegal) and 259 Madagascan theses.Google Scholar

37 http://www.sist-sciencesdev.net/article.php3?id_article=93Google Scholar

38 http://www.piaf-archives.org/Google Scholar

39 http://bibliodoc.francophonie.org/Google Scholar