Resource Centre

CDD has a Resource Centre, located at our London offices on Essex Road.

The Resource Centre is open from 9am - 5pm to  academics, students, journalists, and those with a keen interest in West African affairs (diaspora groups are especially welcome.) but please telephone or email to let us know you are coming.

We currently have a stock of scholarly and journalistic books, most of which relate specifically to the socio-political dynamics of West Africa. Our collection also covers subjects relevant to the African continent as a whole, such as general African socio-political issues, development issues, conflict, gender, children, environment, civil-military relations and human rights issues.

We also receive a regular supply of selected West African newspapers and weekly African news magazines. For your information, a summary of our periodical archive is listed below.

If you would like to make use of the Resource Centre, please contact the Resource & Publications Assistant, email: mhagen @ cdd.org.uk, or Tel: 0 207 359 7775. 

Volumes of the periodicals available:

The News (1997 – date)

Newswatch (1986 – date)

Tell (1993 – date)

The Week (1994 – 2000)

The Source (1997 – 2000)

The African Guardian (1988 – 1997)

Concord (1986 – 1997)

African Agenda (1995 – 2000)

Africa Events (1990 – 1994)

African Topics (1994 – 1999)

Focus on Africa (1990 – 2000)

New African (1987 – 1997)

West Africa (1988 – date)

The Economist (1998 – date)