Nordic Africa Institute

The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies was founded in 1962. In 1993 it changed its name to Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet). The Nordic Africa Institute is a center for research, documentation and information on modern Africa in the Nordic region. The Institute is dedicated to providing timely, critical and alternative research and analysis of Africa in the Nordic countries and to strengthen the co-operation between African and Nordic researchers. The large special library at the Nordic Africa Institute specializes in contemporary Africa and its holding cover the entire continent. The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies opposed apartheid South Africa’s illegal occupation of Namibia in the 1970s and 1980s. The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies published work on Namibia and on Southern Africa, other African countries and Africa as a whole in the 1970s and 1980s including repression in Africa and multinational firms in Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute has played an important role in documenting the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) involvement in supporting liberation struggles, the Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa Project, concluded in 2010, resulted in a website with information and archival lists pointing to resources with the Nordic countries on liberation struggle; the website provides finding aids of primary source materials that can be found at the different Nordic archival institutions. (Source: Nordic Africa Institute; the Nordic Africa Institute; the Nordic Africa Institute website accessed October 23, 2014; and Scandinavia and Namibia: Policies and Action by Eric Erichsen, Danish Association for International Co-operation, Bertil Hogberg, Africa Groups of Sweden, Arne Tostensen, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies available on this website; and the International Institute of Social History website accessed October 23, 2014.)