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label	country of origin	inception	discontinued date	language of work or name	full work available at URL
Abantu-Batho	Union of South Africa	1912-10	1931-07-23	English Sesotho Zulu Tswana Xhosa
Royal Gazette and Sierra Leone Advertiser	Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate	1817-08-02	1827-09-29	English
O Africano	Portuguese Mozambique	1908-12-25	1920-01-03	Portuguese	http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31505
O Brado Africano	Portuguese Mozambique	1918-12-24		Portuguese Ronga English
Aimro	Ethiopia	1901-01-17		Amharic
Eko Akete	Colonial Nigeria	1922		Yoruba English
Windhuker Anzeiger	German South-West Africa	1898-10-12	1901-09-12	German
O Arauto	Portuguese Guinea	1942	1968	Portuguese	http://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/Periodicos/Arauto/Arauto.htm
Molekoli oa Bechuana		1856	1857	Tswana
Koranta ea Becoana	Bechuanaland Protectorate	1901-04-27	1908-02	Tswana English
Tsala ea Becoana	South Africa Union of South Africa	1910	1916	Tswana
Annonces, affiches et avis divers pour les colonies des Isles de France et de Bourbon	Isle de France	1773-01-13	1790	French
La Voix du Dahomey	French Dahomey	1927	190s		http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32891467h
Kiongozi : habari kwa watu wote wa Deutsch-Ostafrika	German East Africa	1906	1913	Swahili	http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-247523
Djibouti	French Somaliland	1899-02-02	1903-10-10	French
Western Echo	Gold Coast Colony	1885-11	1887-12	English
Akede Eko	Colonial Nigeria	1928	190s	Yoruba English
El Eritereo	Italian Eritrea	1890		Italian
Corriere Eritreo	Italian Eritrea	1891		Italian
Hindi ya Gikuyu	Kenya Colony	1948	1952	Gikuyu
O Ecos da Guiné	Portuguese Guinea	1920-12-02		Portuguese
Voz da Guiné	Portuguese Guinea	1972-01-15	1974-08-31	Portuguese
Liberia Herald	Liberia	1826		English
The Accra Herald	Gold Coast Colony	1857	1874	English
UNESCO Series on Women in African History	France			English French Portuguese	https://unesdoc.unesco.org/search/N-EXPLORE-67f0a545-f3a6-4ce9-a364-b7741ee504f1
Mia Holo	Togoland	1911	1959	Ewe
Eko Igbẹhin	Colonial Nigeria	1926		English Yoruba
Independente	Portuguese Cape Verde	1877-10-01	1889 1890	Portuguese
Elolombe ya Kamerun	Kamerun	1908	1908	Duala German	http://tudigit.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/show/Zb-1333
Kamerun-Post	Kamerun	1912-10-08	1914-05-06	German	http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-269876
Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo	Colonial Nigeria	1939-01		Hausa	https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP485-1
Izwi Labantu	Cape Colony	1897-11	1909-04	Xhosa English Sesotho
Ons Land	Cape Colony	1892		Dutch
The Gold Coast Leader	Gold Coast Colony	1902	1929	English
Leselinyana la Lesutho	Cape Colony	1863		Sesotho
Abidjan Matin	French West Africa	1954	1964	French
O Mercantil	Portuguese Angola	1870	1896	Portuguese
Msimulizi	Sultanate of Zanzibar	1888	1896	Swahili	https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001050/00001
Muigwithania	Kenya Colony	1928		Gikuyu
Mulee-Ngea	Kamerun	1910-07	1937	Duala
Mumenyereri	Kenya Colony	1945	1952	Gikuyu
Mutende	Northern Rhodesia	1936	1952	English Bemba Lozi Nyanja Tonga
Sauti ya Mwafrika	Kenya Colony	1945		English Swahili
Windhuker Nachrichten	German South-West Africa	1904-12-24	1910-12-31	German
Ilanga lase Natal		1903		Zulu
Inkanyiso yase Natal	Colony of Natal	1889-04	1896-06	Zulu English
Daily Times of Nigeria	Nigeria Colonial Nigeria	1925		English
Indian Opinion	Cape Colony	1903	1961	English Hindi Tamil	https://www.jstor.org/site/struggles-for-freedom/southern-africa/periodicals-indian-opinion/
West African Pilot	Nigeria Colonial Nigeria	1937-11-22	1967	English
The Livingstone Pioneer	Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia	1906-01-13	1906-09-29	English
El Eco de Fernando Poo	Spanish Guinea	1901		Spanish
Ramogi	Kenya Colony	1945		Luo
Deutsch-ostafrikanische Rundschau	German East Africa	1908	1912	German
Sahifa		1930	1932	Swahili
Keetmanshooper Zeitung : bestes Insertionsorgan für den Süden des Schutzgebietes	German South-West Africa			German
Sekanyola	Kenya Colony	1920	1930	Luganda
Berhanena Selam	Ethiopia	1923		Amharic	http://alma.matrix.msu.edu/newspapers https://www.lawethiopia.com/index.php/volume-3/6485-old-ethiopian-newspapers-berhanena-selam
Südwestbote	German South-West Africa	1911-01-04	1915-05-10	German
Gold Coast Times	Ghana Gold Coast Colony	1874		English
O Jornal de S. Tomé	Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe	1881	1884	Portuguese
Usambara-Post	German East Africa	1904	1916	German
Imongo Vaovao	French Madagascar	1955		Malagasy French
Umshumayeli Wendaba	Cape Colony	1837-07	1841-04	Xhosa
Iwe Irohin Yoruba Fun Awon Ara Egba ati Yoruba	Lagos Colony	1859-12-03	1867-10-13	Yoruba English
Imvo Zabantsundu	Cape Colony	1884-11-03		Xhosa
Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung	German East Africa	1899-02-26	1916	German	http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/collection/id/17041 https://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/23820457/
Deutsch-Südwestafrikanische Zeitung	German South-West Africa	1901-10-14 1900	1914-09-19	German
Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung	German South-West Africa	1909-02-13	1914-09-18	German
Swakopmunder Zeitung	German South-West Africa	1911-12-02	1912-09-28	German
The East African standard, Mombasa times & Uganda argus		1902-11-15		English
Le Semeur d'Éthiopie		1905	1911	French
Uganda herald	East Africa Protectorate	1912-07-05	1954-12-30	English
The Livingstone mail	Northern Rhodesia	1906-03	1968-05-30	English
Bantu mirror	Southern Rhodesia	1936-02-15	1962-01-27	English Ndebele Shona
The Beira post	Portuguese Mozambique	1893	1917	English Portuguese	http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2729130
La Guinea Española : periódico quincenal	Spanish Guinea	1903	1968	Spanish	http://www.bioko.net/guineaespanola/laguies.htm https://jable.ulpgc.es/inventario/guineaespanola.htm
Isigidimi samaXhosa	Cape Colony	1870		Xhosa English
The Lagos standard	Colonial Nigeria Southern Nigeria Protectorate	180s	1920-01-28	English
Eleti Ọfẹ	Colonial Nigeria	1923		Yoruba English
Iwe Irohin Ọsọsẹ	Colonial Nigeria	1925		English Yoruba

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