Free English language newspapers in Africa, and worldwide. Current newspapers and older, archived papers. Links to collections, free services.
Links to all the newspaper collections at Century Past, including those on this page, are just below.
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Also Visit on Century Past:
Newspapers of the World
Index of Newspapers and News Media Guide
ABYZ News Links
An extensive list of links for Internet news, newspapers and broadcasters for each region and country throughout the globe.
World Newspapers, News Sites, and Magazines Online
W3Newspapers
Fine collection of newspapers as well as other internet news sites.
Free Newspapers Online – OnlineNewspapers.com
onlinenewspapers.com
“Online Newspaper Directory for the World”. Thousands of newspapers listed by country & region. Nearly all nations appear to be represented, with numerous links for each. Many free online English newspapers are here to read.
Directory of World Newspapers and Magazines
Worldpress
“One of the web’s largest and most comprehensive directories of World Newspapers and Magazines, sorted by Country, region, and political affiliation.” – Worldpress website.
Top 200 Newspapers in the World by Web Ranking
4 International Media & Newspapers
200 popular newspapers throughout the world, with links. Last updated in 2019.
Newspaper Archives Worldwide
Google Free Newspaper Archive
Google Free Newspaper Archives offers archived copies of numerous newspapers from everywhere, organized alphabetically by title. There does not appear to be a way to present the newspapers by country or city, so it may be more convenient to use one of the other archives on this webpage to find a newspaper title that you can then search for in Google Free Newspaper Archives..
Historical Worldwide Newspapers Online
Bowling Green State University Libraries
Historical Worldwide Newspapers Online has links to numerous newspaper archives from around the globe, as well as collections of newspapers, organized by country.
Wikipedia: List of Online Newspaper Archives
Wikipedia
This page has links to some online newspaper archives from countries globally, and indicates whether they are paid or not. The U.S. newspaper archives section is organized by state, and the Canadian newspaper archives section is organized by province.
Newspaper Digitization Projects – by Country
International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
Brief descriptions, with links, of newspaper digitization projects in countries around the world.
International News Historical Archives
XooxleAnswers
International News Historical Archives contains links with descriptions for historical newspaper archives for countries other than the U.S. or in Europe (which have separate entries on this webpage). Divided into three sections: “Canadian Newspaper Archives”, with 20 links; “Australia and New Zealand”, with 5 links; and “Elsewhere Around the World”, with 13 links.
Read English Newspapers Online for Africa
AllAfrica Current News – Free English Language Newspapers in Africa
AllAfrica News
“AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa – aggregating, producing and distributing 900 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.” – AllAfrica website. The site is available in English and French.
Africa Newspapers and News Media Guide
ABYZ News Links
An extensive list of links for Internet news, newspapers and broadcasters for each region and country in Africa.
African Newspapers Online
onlinenewspapers.com
The site has separate pages for every country in the region, with links to their newspapers.
Online African Newspapers & News Sites
W3Newspapers
Each country in Africa has a page, with links to newspapers and other news sources.
Newspapers in Africa Online
4 International Media & Newspapers
Contains a list of all countries Africa, with links to newspapers in each. This is a very extensive collection.
African News in English
The Big Project
A collection of links, without notes, to a large number of news sources in Africa. On the site of “The Big Project”, a youth charity in Edinburgh, UK.
Top 50 Newspapers in Africa by Web Ranking
4 International Media & Newspapers
50 large online newspapers in Africa, with links.
Africa News Archives Free in English
Historical Worldwide Newspapers Online: Africa
Bowling Green State University Libraries
This collection of free online newspapers published in Africa contains a particularly large number of English-language newspapers from the colonial era.