Resources

Links to institutions, journals and archives that exist and can be checked. Everything on this page was verified on 11 August 2026.

Institutions

SOAS, University of London — African Languages, Cultures and Literatures Section.
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — includes the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften.
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University — where Dr. Kapchits began Somali in 1964 and defended his dissertation in 2000.
Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences — Moscow, founded 1959.
Department of African Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University — Somali is among the languages taught.
African Studies Centre Leiden — host of the 4th Cushitic and Omotic conference (April 2003), where the paremiological experiment was reported.
Center for African Studies, Ohio State University — has run a Somali language programme since 2006.
African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota — Somali language courses.

Somali Studies International Association (SSIA) — founded 1978, organiser of the international congresses of Somali studies. The association has no website of its own; the page linked here is the account kept by the Hargeysa Cultural Centre.
African Studies Association — USA.
International African Institute — London.
Association of African Studies Programs — the North American programmes and centres.
The Nordic Africa Institute — Uppsala.

Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press — the imprint devoted to the Horn of Africa.
Northeast African Studies — Michigan State University Press.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics — De Gruyter.
Journal of African Cultural Studies — founded at SOAS in 1988 as African Languages and Cultures, under its present title since 1998.
African Studies — Taylor & Francis.
Journal of Somali Studies — Adonis & Abbey, published since 2014.
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship — published by the University of Vermont through vol. 38 (2021), open access since vol. 39 (2022). Vol. 25 (2008) carried “Variants and Variations of Somali Proverbs”.
Oral Tradition — open access, Harvard University.
Vostok (Oriens) — the journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published since 1955; known as Peoples of Asia and Africa until 1991.

Ethnologue — languages of the world.
OLAC — Open Language Archives Community — a union catalogue of language resources.
ELAR — Endangered Languages Archive — now at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
DOBES — Documentation of Endangered Languages — the archive of the Volkswagen Foundation programme, held at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen.
Smithsonian Folkways — recordings of traditional music.
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — the convention and its lists.