THEATER 122: African Theater and Performance

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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
Online bibliography of materials indexed by the Theatre Research Data Center. Contains the full text of more than 170 journals and over 350 monographs and reference books, and indexing of academic journals, magazines, newspapers, dissertations, and monographs from over 125 countries.
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Black Drama, 2nd edition
Contains almost 1,500 plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. The plays have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre. Complements the other Alexander Street Press database Black Drama,(first edition).
African Writers Series
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The Media Resources Center (MRC) at Moffitt Library is the UC Berkeley Library's primary collection of materials in electronic non-print (audio and visual) formats. These formats include: videocassettes, DVDs; compact audio discs; audiocassettes; and online (streamed) audio and video. Materials in the MRC may be used on-site in the Center by current UC Berkeley students and staff. Links to selected African cinema and documentary films at the MRC below:

The Library's Newspaper & Microforms Room holds numerous African newspapers from the 19th century to currently-received titles. Papers on microfilm are shelved in title order by country. Currently received print titles are shelved by title. The Library currently receives the following African newspapers in print:

Daily Nation (Kenya)
Ghanaian Times (Ghana)
Sunday News (Tanzania)
Sunday Standard (Kenya)
Sunday Vision (Sudan)
Taifa Jumapili (Kenya)

The Stanford Library has one of the largest collections of African newspapers in print and microfilm in the United States. These titles are available for on-site viewing by UCB afilliated persons.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) lends African newspapers on microfilm to UCB patrons. Many titles are list on the Melvyl Catalog where you can request film by sent to Berkeley for use. CRL also hosts AFRINUL a union list of African newspapers held by U.S. research libraries. This is not a complete list so double-check with each institution's catalog for complete holdings.

African historical and current newspapers are also available electronically through subscription databases and free sites.

African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
Over 60 Sub-Saharan African newspapers published prior to 1923 included in full-text. A UCB subscription resource.
AllAfrica.com
Provides current coverage of over 100 African newspapers and some NGO publications in English and French. Berkeley's subscription provides backfile access to 1996.
Breaking News
Reports of latest news. This site is maintained by Stanford University.
Electronic Newspapers of Africa
This site providing a list of online newspapers is maintained by Columbia University.

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APA Style: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2010 (call number: BF76.7.P83 2010, multiple libraries). Official APA style guide.
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MLA Style: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009 (call number: LB2369.G53 2009, multiple libraries). A somewhat simplified guide, adequate for undergraduate and most other research papers.
: MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008 (call number: PN147.G444 2008, multiple libraries). For graduate students, scholars, and professional writers (more depth on copyright, legal issues, and writing theses, dissertations, and scholarly publishing).

Turabian Style: Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (call number: LB2369.T8 1996, multiple libraries).

Chicago Style: The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 (call number: Z253.U69 2003, multiple libraries).

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