Research Guides: HIST 280: West African History Since 1800 (Spring 2025): Practice Example

Examples

Thomas Sankara (1949-1987)
- Secondary Sources:
  - "Thomas Sankara"
    - Catalog
    - articles
- Primary Sources
  - historic newspaper articles in catalog
Protest Music in West Africa
- You might narrow down. Compare music AND protest AND ("west africa" OR "western africa") vs music AND protest AND "Sierra Leone"
Ghana film
- Use the main catalog to limit to DVDs to find material we have in the collection
Relations between Liberia and the United States
- catalog
- articles

WorldCat
Materials held by thousands of libraries in the US and abroad. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes, etc. Coverage: Before 1000BC-present.