The African Library (French: Bibliothèque africaine; Dutch: Afrika-bibliotheek) was an African Studies research library in Brussels, Belgium, originally founded in 1885 as the Bibliothèque Coloniale.
[1] In 1962, when Belgium ceased to be a colonial power, responsibility for the library passed to the Foreign Ministry.
[2][3] The library's holdings included material not only on Africa, but also on European colonisation in Asia and Latin America.
[4] The independent existence of the library became difficult to maintain after 1980, and by 1989 there were fears the collection might be dispersed.
[6] Since June 2017, access to the collection has been through the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.