This guide is created to provide strategies and resources for locating news articles on topics related to Africa and migration topics from both Western and African presses.
Overall Strategy:
- Locate an initial news article.
- Find an article connected to the topic of migration or mobility within Africa in the past year.
- Use a library database or the free web.
- Use database functionality, such as Location or Source filters, to narrow to Western and/or African presses.
- Prepare to find a similar news article from a different press perspective.
- Extract specific keywords from that article for your next search!
- Take note of the publication date and/or the time period of the event.
- Ensure that this is from a Western or African press.
- Locate a second news article.
- Revisit a library database or the free web.
- Use keywords from the first article you've found to create a search.
- Use database functionality, such as Location or Source filters, to narrow to Western and/or African presses.
- Review/skim articles to locate one that is discussing the same content as the first article you retrieved.
