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Database Name: Africana Vertical File Index
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The Africana Vertical File Index covers an extensive collection of uncataloged government documents, official publications, pamphlets, periodicals and journals held by Northwestern's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. The file is updated daily.

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To search for a person as an author, type the last name followed by part or all of the first name. To search for a government body or organization as an author, type at least the first part of the name. Examples:

mandela n
abbas ferhat
tanzania bureau of
algeria delegation generale en algerie

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nigeria and oil
(nigeria and oil) not (government or report)
"white paper"

Use ? to truncate a search term. For example, a search for mali? retrieves “mali,” “malian,” “malien,” etc.


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