EBALL, or Electronic Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics, is a unfinanced, long-term bibliography project with the single aim to collect bibliographical details for literature on and about African languages. It is not an inventory of any existing library or collection, however desirable that may sound as an idea. EBALL currently contains some 54,000 indexed and partially annotated references. Roughly two-thirds (or c.35,000) deal specifically with one or other linguistic aspect.

At some unspecified point in the future, EBALL will hopefully be presented here as a searchable database. This will have to await proper funding, however. Presently only samples and extracts can be offered.

BOB: the Bantu Online Bibliography PDF
Khoisan bibliography HTML
NAMLOB: Namibian languages online bibliography PDF
Niger-Congo noun class studies PDF
Sub-Saharan languages and peoples: pre-1920 works PDF
Web resources for African languages HTML

User guide to EBALL PDF
Select list of Africana-relevant journals and serials PDF

Jouni F. Maho. 2003. Towards a bibliography for Mozambican languages, part 1: the smaller languages. Africa & Asia: Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures, n. 3, p. 147-154.
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Jouni F. Maho. Forthcoming. The Bantu Bibliography. Pp 850-ish.
  [ PDF simplified web version ]

Jouni F. Maho & Bonny Sands. 2002. The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography. Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia, n. 17. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Pp ix+428.

Jouni F. Maho & Bonny Sands. 2002. Languages of Tanzania: a web links collection = web-appendix to 'The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography'. Dept of Linguistics, Göteborg University.
  [ web document ] Not updated in a while.