LibGuides: UGS 302: African Cosmopolitanisms / Adelakun: Get started with your topic

Are you an expert on your topic?

No, you're not. When you don't know enough about your topic, it makes it difficult to brainstorm keywords, choose a place to search and recognize when an article may be helpful to you. Use the following resources to explore your topics a bit and revisit these resources throughout the research process.

International African Bibliography Online
You can search basic terms here - such as cosmopolitanism - and explore how that term is used and in what topic areas.Try some terms you have talked about in class, or else terms that you are interested in writing about.

Updated quarterly. The International African Bibliography Online (IABO) is a leading specialist bibliography of African Studies. It contains 140,000 entries from the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015, and about 4,000 new entries will be added every year. The bibliography is searchable by authors, editors, titles, publication years, ISSN/ISBN, keywords, full text, and categories such as regions and countries or the African Diaspora
Gale eBooks
Encyclopedia entries on broad topics.

Updated regularly. A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files. A list of sources included in our subscription is available.
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