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• ABBOL--AEquatoria Book Bank On-Line = AEquatoria Bibliothèque de Base On-Line In association with the Centre Aequatoria, Mbandaka, République démocratique du Congo. (Lovenjoel, Belgium)
  'The e-books offered on this site are mainly drawn from other e-book projects, such as the Gutenberg Project.' The editors claim that ABBOL is digitalising and editing its own materials for the Book Bank.
  In late April 2006, the e-library consisted of a short selection of European travellers accounts from the 19th century and older works on the historiography of central Africa, including those on the "Lyanja" epic....in French!! See also, the much longer list of links to other Africa-related electronic texts on the Web.
  
  
• American Museum of Natural History: American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915 (New York)
  A multi-media web presentation (photographs, audio narrative, sound recordings, maps, related texts) on the expedition of Herbert Lang and James Chapin begun in 1909 in what was northeastern Belgian Congo. "Five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens representing one of the most comprehensive collections of the day."
  
  
• Centre Aequatoria - Centre de Recherches Culturelles Africanistes (Bamanya, Mbandaka, R. D. Congo ; Michael Meeuwis, Université d'Anvers, Belgium)
  Le site Web est en français ou en anglais. "Le Centre Aequatoria est situé à Bamanya, 10 km de Mbandaka, où le fleuve Zaire traverse la ligne de l'équateur. Il consiste en une bibliothèque, des archives, un périodique (6000 livres et 3000 volumes de périodiques). La bibliothèque est spécialisée en linguistique bantu et histoire coloniale."
  
  
• Cold War International History Project: "History Through Documents and Memory: Report on a CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference on the Congo Crisis, 1960-1961." (December 18, 2004) (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC)
  
  
• "Congo in Harlem Series," October 2-24, 2009, Maysles Institute, New York
  "Congo in Harlem a month-long series of film screenings accompanied by special events, panel discussions, performances, and receptions."
  
  
• Congonline (Afriqu'Info, Brussels, Belgium)
  • Un plus grand site Web entièrement consacré à la RDC. Sur ce site -- en cours de construction, on peut trouver les actualités congolais de la semaine. Remarque: dans la section << Edito >>, il faut s'abonner à Congonline pour accéder aux articles de la presse congolaise. Il y a aussi un grand recueil des informations à propos de la République démocratique du Congo, y compris plusieurs petits résumés sur l'histoire, la géographie, la politique, l'économie, la culture, la société, etc. Voir aussi:
  • Documents sur le Spécial Dialogue intercongolais (2001-2002)
  
  
• Democratic Republic of Congo/Zaire Web Page (University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• An Eternity of Forest: Paintings by Mbuti Women (University of California, Berkeley)
  
  
• H-Africa Discussion Threads: King Leopold and Africanists + the Rwanda Genocide and the Reading Public (HNet/Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  An archive of e-mail commentaries from scholars about Adam Hoschild's popular 1998 book, King Leopold's Ghost, and the issues surrounding history and the Congo region today.
  
  
• Histoire de la colonisation belge du Congo (Patrick Cloos et le Comité Consultatif--Adam Hochschild, Isidore Ndaywel E Nziem, et Jules Marchal; CoBelCo, Bruxelles, Belgique)
  "...les faits rapportés sur le site proviennent principalement des différents volumes de L'Histoire du Congo éécrits par Jules Marchal, qui sont les résultats des recherches qu'il a personnellement effectéées depuis 25 ans. Vous pourrez également lire son interview, tout comme celle d'Adam Hochschild dont le livre Les Fantômes du roi Léopold. II a également servi de source historique au contenu du site."
  
  
• Houses in the rainforest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in central Africa. By Roy Richard Grinker III. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1994).
  
  
• International Bureau of Education = Bureau de l'Education International: Democratic Republic of Congo (UNESCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Le développement de l'éducation: rapport national de la République Démocratique du Congo, avril 2001 (Congo, Democratic Republic, Secrétariat Permanent de la Commission Nationale pour l'UNESCO. 46th Session of the International Conference on Education, Geneva, 5-8 September, 2001) PDF format.
  • Documents et ressources sur la RDC (rapports et statistiques)
  
  
• Le Bâton d'Ishango...20.000 ans...le plus vieil objet mathématique = The Ishango Bone...20,000 years...oldest mathematical object (Musée de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles)
  -- Veuillez voir aussi: Autour d'Ishango (2006-2007) (Vrjie Universiteit Brussel)
  
  
• Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa: Archives in Popular Swahili [of the Eastern Congo] (Vincent A. de Rooij, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  A set of online texts: Excerpts from Tshibumba Kanda Matulu's "History of Zaire" as told to Johannes Fabian in 1974, in KiSwahili and English translation, plus a few other parallel KiSwahili-English texts and a "Boloki" text from the late 19th century. The collection is in part a supplement to Johannes Fabian's Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire (published by University of California Press, 1996). The online texts are part of a web site announcing an electronic journal.
  
  
• Kimbanguisme.net (France)
  Un site de la diaspora congolaise et du mouvement indépendantiste développé au sein du Christianisme par Simon Kimbangu et ses fidèles au Congo depuis 1921.
  
  
• The Leopard Man's African Music Guide -- Koffi Olomide (Bjorn-Erik Hanssen, Norway)
  This site offers a biography, interviews, and discography of the famed Congolese singer; with links to Amazon.Com
  
  
• Luba-Kasai: a working bibliography. By Valentine Kanyinda Muyumba, Indiana State University. Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online); vol. 9 (2004) -- Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Libraries, 2004.
  
  
• Patrice Lumumba, 1925-1961
  • Belgium. Chambre des représentants: Documents parlementaires, les conclusions, et le rapport de la Commission (2001) d'enquête parlementaire chargée de déterminer les circonstances exactes de l'assassinat de Patrice Lumumba et l'implication éventuelle des responsables politiques belges dans celui-ci, novembre 2001. (Brussels, Belgium)
    Sur ce site, on peut lire les documents en format HTML ou en format PDF.
  • The Galleries at Moore: "A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art", Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 15-October 29, 2000 Organized by The Museum for African Art, New York; Guest curator, Bogumil Jewsiewicki.
    This site is about the exhibit and events surrounding it; plus related links.
  • Grioo.Com: La dernière lettre de Patrice Lumumba (novembre 1960). Le 5 novembre 2003. (Paris, France)
  • Lumumba -- Zietgeist Films (New York)
    Promotional site: Video clips from the recently-released film, schedule of showings in the USA, information about the film's director, Raoul Peck -- including an audio clip from an interview. There are also brief summaries of Patrice Lumumba, the struggles of the Congolese people in Congo (Zaire), and information about the making of the film ; plus promotional links.
  
  
• Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale = Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgique)
  • The website offers information and photos from exhibitions, related links, and lists of publications--only a few are online.
  • Lists of publications
  • Inventory of The Stanley Archives (426 p.) Format PDF.
  • Une Introduction à l'Ethnohistoire des Hema du Nord (Congo du Nord-Est) par Edmond Thiry (2004). -- Tervuren, Belgique: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 2004. (127 p.) Format PDF.
  
  
• A Short Bibliography on the Art of Kuba Weaving (Columbia University Libraries)
  This bibliography originally accompanied an announcement for an exhibition on Kuba raffia cloth from the Democratic Republic of Congo, held at Columbia University in January-February 1998.
  
  
• Strategic-Road.Com: Guerres en RD Congo = Wars in DR Congo (Voiron, France)
  Un repertoire de liens aux ressources sur la guerre en RDC...sous les thèmatiques des actualités, des guerres et des conflits, des droits de l'homme, et des autres dossiers.
  
  
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Democratic Republic of Congo (2009)
  
  
• "War & peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" (2000) by Herbert Weiss. American diplomacy. (Online) ; Vol. V, No. 3 (Summer 2000) Parts 1-8.
  -- Durham, North Carolina: American Diplomacy Publishers, via University of North Carolina, 1996-
  
  
• Zaire: a country study. Area handbook. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress; US Department of the Army, 1993)
  The electronic version of the handbook, with chapters on history, geography, economy, society & culture, government, and bibliography.