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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.
  
  
• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and African Studies Program, Madison, Wisconsin)
  This web site offers dwnloadable images, sound files, and other materials on Africa. "This online collection ... contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
  
  
• Africa Forum (H-Africa, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.)
  • "Historians, are archæologists your siblings?" by Jan Vansina.
    The full text article reprinted from History in Africa. 22 (1995): 369-408..
  • "History facing the present: an interview with Jan Vansina" (November 2001) and    Reply by Jean-Luc Vellut
  • "Photography and colonial vision," by Paul S. Landau (May 19, 1999, Dept. of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
    Excerpt from "The visual image in Africa: an introduction" in Images and empires: visuality in colonial and post-colonial Africa, ed. by Paul S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin.
  • "Sibling rivalry? : the intersection of archæology and history" by Peter Robertshaw.
  • H-Africa Africa Forum Home Page
  • H-Africa Network Home Page
  
  
• Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
  • General announcement and contact information. All nominations have been received, a short list drawn up by a jury, and the 100 titles were announced on February 18, 2002. See a copy of the list of 100.
  • H-Africa Discussion Forum, March 2002 (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  • Africa Book Centre--Catalogue of 100 Best Book Award Winners (Brighton, UK)
  
  
• Africa Past & Present -- Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics African Online Digital Library (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  Begun in January 2008, this site offers access to interviews with African studies scholars across the disciplines based at or visiting the university. Conversations are recorded in downloadable formats---MP3s, iTUNES, Podcast.
  
  
• Africa Research Central: a clearinghouse of African primary sources. Compiled by Kathryn Green and Susan Tschabrun, California State University, San Bernadino, California.
  "Africa Research Central has as its goal to centralize and constantly update information about the institutions with African primary source collections, so as to facilitate international research in African Studies."
  
  
• Africa review of books. (Online) -- Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 2003-
  
  
• African Activist Archive Project (African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  This website includes a "directory of African activist archives" in the U.S. "[The project] seeks to preserve for history the record of activities of U.S. organizations and individuals that supported African struggles for freedom and had a significant collective impact on U.S. policy during the period 1950-1994."
  
  
• African Archaeology -- WWW Virtual Library (Bernard-Olivier Clist, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)
  An extensive listing of links for the archaeology (and paleo-anthropology) of Africa on the Internet---news, field data reports, scholars' contact information, institutions, etc.
  
  
• African Civilizations: Internet Resources & Reference in Print, 1999-- (Compiled by Dr. Joseph S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University.)
  An online guide in support of a core-curriculum, undergraduate course at Columbia College entitled "Contemporary Civilization: African Civilizations."
  
  
• AfricanColours.Net (The Hague, The Netherlands; Nairobi, Kenya; Harare, Zimbabwe; via Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
  A virtual showcase and promotional portal for African artists from all over the continent, with a very useful redbook of links to websites of art book publishers, reviews, film, music, fashion, photography, online galleries, etc.
  
  
• African Diaspora Studies (Compiled by Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University.)
  
  
• African History Homepage (Dr. James Jones, Department of History, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania)
  A collection of webpages of notes and other supporting material on "precolonial", "colonial", and "independent" Africa, including notes from archival records, photos, slide shows, and maps.
  
  
• African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems Page (Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University)
  An outline of links to other sites (including selected books available from Amazon.Com) and brief historical summaries on African history, science, and technology.
  
  
• African Language Resources on the Internet
  
  
• African Literature on the Internet
  
  
• African Odyssey Interactive at The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.: A festival of music, dance and theater from Africa and the African Diaspora.
  A web site for links to educational resources, including multi-media files on Mali, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. "The goals of the Center's African Odyssey are to raise the level of awareness and understanding of the cultures of Africa among the American people, and to develop a sustainable program that fosters an exchange between African peoples and the United States..."
  
  
• African Philosophy Resources (Prof. Bruce B. Janz. University of Central Florida, Orlando)
  • An extensive list of links to online texts, websites, and related resources on a variety of topics.
  • African philosophy online papers
  • African philosophy online books
  • African philosophy online book reviews
  
  
• African Review of Books (2003-2005) (London, UK)
  • A website for publicizing African writings and public discussion, with recent news on book awards and related links.
  • Reviews and essays
  
  
• African Studies Library Catalogs and Archives (via Columbia University)
  
  
• African Traditional Religion (Chidi Denis Isizoh, Italy)
  Frequently updated: This web site offers an extensive list of links to information about African traditional religions on the Internet. The author also includes an impressive list of sources on the subject,    "Bibliography on African Traditional Religion".
  
  
• Africana Digitization Project: Electronic Facsimile, University of Wisconsin--Madison Libraries
  A pilot project offering free access to searchable online copies of published sources for West African history with a focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade era. The titles include:
  -- Almada, Andre Alvares de, Brief Treatise on the Rivers of Guinea, c. 1594.
  -- Alvares, Manuel, Ethiopia Minor and a Geographical Account of the Province of Sierra Leone.
  -- Barbot's West African Vocabularies of c. 1680.
  -- Fage, J. D., A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages.
  -- Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617.
  -- Jones, Adam. Raw, medium, well done: a critical review of editorial and quasi-editorial work on pre-1885 European sources for Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-1986 (1987)
  -- Lovejoy, Paul E. (ed.), Africans in bondage: studies in slavery and the slave trade: essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin ...(1986)
  
  
• Africinfo: cultural diary for Africa = l'agenda culturel en Afrique (via Africultures et l'Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Paris, France)
  A current, bi-lingual calendar of events in the African arts organized by country and genre. 'Africinfo.org is the site for the RICAFE network (cultural information network in Africa and Europe).'
  
  
• Africultures: le site des cultures africaines (Olivier Barlet, Editions Harmattan, France)
  • Chaque mois, ce site offre un agenda et des informations actualisées au jour le jour - y compris les festivals de cinéma, les concerts, les expositions, etc.
  • L'Actualité Africaine -- Agenda
  
  
• Afrilivres -- livres d'Afrique et des diasporas (Paris, France)
  Un site commercial: << ...depuis le 12 novembre 2002, Afrilivres présente tous les titres non-scolaires publiés par les éditeurs d'Afrique francophone regroupés en association >>.
  
  
• Afrocentricity and the Black Athena Debate (Professor Wim van Binsbergen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
  A collection of articles in English and French on the issues surrounding Martin Bernal's multi-volume work-in-progress, "Black Athena".
  
  
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain, Durham, North Carolina)
  An online database--downloadable--to search for African heritage in Louisiana. "The Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy online search engine was designed to provide the general public free access to valuable historic records. Users can locate individual slaves who lived in Louisiana between the years of 1718 and 1820 through this easy-to-use, free, public database. Find valuable historical data from over 100,000 descriptions of slaves found in documents in Louisiana between 1718 and 1821 by searching identifiers such as gender, racial designation, or plantation location. Users can even search the origin of the slaves brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries to work the New World."
  
  
• Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie: Journal de l'Agence de la Francophonie. (Online). No. 31, janvier-mars 2003: à propos de la langue française en Afrique. Format PDF. -- Paris, France: AIF, 2003.
  
  
• Akan Cultural Symbols Project (George F. Kojo and Robert E. Rowe, Marshall University, West Virginia)
  The site offers examples and explanations of Akan architecture, textiles, metalwork, wood carving, cosmology, and political traditions. "This project is designed as an educational resource to show the relationships between Akan visual arts and Akan verbal genres. It is also to show some aspects of the rich cultural heritage of the Akan of Ghana ... The Project, therefore, comprises this web site - Akan Cultural Symbols Project Online; a series of books and catalogues; photo exhibitions, lectures and workshops; and multi-media CD-ROMs."
  
  
• Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. (1991) -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Electronic plain text version posted by Alan Light.
  
  
• Aluka -- The Struggle for Freedom in Southern Africa ; African Cultural Sites and Landscapes ; and African Plants (Ithaka, New York, New York and Princeton, New Jersey)
  A website about the project: "Aluka’s principal audience is the higher education and research community, both in Africa and around the world, including colleges, universities, research and policy centres, and cultural institutions. The materials are selected primarily with undergraduate students and their instructors in mind, but the content is also valuable to graduate students and upper-level secondary students." Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Les Amis de la Paléontologie au Tchad (AMPAT): Tchad, berceau de l'humanité? (Ndjamena, Tchad)
  Sur ce site, on peut trouver les projets de l'organisation et un recueil des articles, des brèves bibliographies, et des extraits des médias sur les découvertes récentes à l'appui d'une origine de l'humanité dans la région actuelle du Tchad.
  
  
• Ancient Egypt
  
  
• "Angola on the Move: Transport Routes, Communications, and History," International Symposium, 24-26 September 2003, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany
  This web site offers the proceedings of a very important gathering of key historians of Angola and Central Africa, with downloadable papers, comments, maps, etc.
  
  
• Animated Atlas of African History, 1879-2002 (Prof. Nancy Jacobs et al., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)
  "...The map displays information in several ways: color-coding of territories reflects political changes; symbols show conflicts as isolated events; bar graphs give demographic and economic data, and labels show country names. Users may click on the diamonds in the bottom center to reveal or hide these features. Timeline controls on the bottom-right advance or reverse the chronology. The polygonal keys expand when the mouse is placed over them and can be dragged to any location on the map to match colors with those on the key. For the period after 1960, the labels also contain bar graphs showing changes in population and per capita GDP over time."
  -- See also: Maps of Africa on the Internet.
  
  
• ANKH: Les Civilisations africaines et l'Egyptologie (Paris, France)
  • Ce site comprend une série des textes sur l'Afrique de l'antiquité, une bibliographie des ouvrages choisis, et des autres textes. De plus:
  • ANKH: Revue d'Egyyptologie et des Civilisations africaines -- Tables des matières et les résumés
    Remarque: les résumés sont en français ou en anglais.
  
  
• Anthropology Back Door to the Web: L'Afrique centrale (Dr. Bernard Clist, Grasse, France)
  • Page d'accueil = Home Page
  • Bibliographie de l'archéologie de l'Afrique centrale (2006)
  
  
• West African Arabic Manuscript Database (See below "West African...")
  
  
• Archives Nationales du Sénégal (Dakar, Sénégal)
  
  
• "Area studies in search of Africa" (2003) by Pearl T. Robinson. The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines ; UCIAS Edited Volume 3, Article 6. University of California eScholarship Respository Journals & Peer-Reviewed Series. -- Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press and California Digital Library, 2003. 42 pages in PDF format.
  
  
• ARISA: Annual review of Islam in South Africa. (Online) -- Archive -- Cape Town: Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, 1998-2005.
  
  
• Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique (Maputo, Mozambique)
  • IV Reunião Internacional de História de Africa -- "Africa e Dinâmicas no Periodo Colonial", de 8 a 11 de Setembro 2004 (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique)
  • 17a Conferência Bi-Anual da ESARBICA sobre Arquivos, Sociedade e Boa Governação, de 22 a 26 de julho de 2003 (Maputo, Mozambique)
  
  
• Art and Archæology of Africa
  
  
• Association des Historiens Maliens--ASHIMA (2001) (Bamako, Mali)
  
  
• Association pour la Connaissance l'Etude et la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (1998) (Université Paris VIII, France; via Internet Archive WayBackMachine)
  • Une bibliographie sur la question de l'esclavage.
  • Voir aussi: Comité pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage ci-dessous.
  
  
• "Back to the Blackboard: Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education in Africa," edited by Peroshni Govender & Steven Gruzd (2004). NEPAD policy focus series. -- Braamfontein, South Africa: South African Institute of International Affairs, 2004. PDF format.
  
  
• La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)
  • Ecritures africaines en bref
    Sur ce site, on peut lire des dossiers pédagogiques, illustrés de dessins, d'images et de photos, en ce qui concerne les écritures en Afrique. Cette sélection est une partie d'une exposition qui s'est tenue à la BNF en 1998.
    
    
  • Gallica Voyages en Afrique
    • << Le dossier Voyages en Afrique propose une large sélection de documents de toute nature, majoritairement francophones, ponctuellement en langues étrangères...Le but est de rendre aisément accessibles des sources souvent éparses en un corpus pluridisciplinaire, centré sur l'histoire de la découverte de l'Afrique depuis les premières connaissances laissées par les Arabes ou les Européens naviguant le long des côtes jusqu'aux explorations de l'intérieur du continent, le partage de l'Afrique entre les puissances européennes et les différentes étapes de la colonisation jusqu'en 1914. >>
    • Bibliographie: catalogues, bibliographies, études, et corpus complémentaire
    • Accès catalogue, accès gégraphique et par un parcours thématiques, et accès spécifique par un parcours pour les revues
  
  
• Colloque << Bibliothèques nationales en Afrique Francophone au 21ème siècle >> du 5 a 7 mai 2003, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal. (Ecole des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
  
  
• Die Bildbestand der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft in der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main: Colonial Picture Archive (Frankfurt, Germany)
  • "The project...encompasses safety filming of 50,000-70,000 historical photographs from German colonial history."
  • Suchen = Search
  
  
• Black Arts Research Center (Nyack, New York)
  General information about the center, its director -- John Gray, and related links. "Founded in 1989, the Black Arts Research Center is an archival resource center dedicated to the documentation, preservation and dissemination of the African cultural legacy. Resources include some 2300 recordings, cassettes and videotapes, 1300 books and journals, 500 clippings files and a bibliographic database with more than 50,000 entries. These materials now offer one of the richest resources ever on the Black presence in the performing arts."
  
  
• "The Black Presence in Antiquity: A Selected Bibliography". Compiled by Leida I. Torres and Andrea Only. (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Libraries, Washington, DC)
  A list of print publications available at Howard University.
  
  
• Albert Adu Boahen, 1932-2006
  • "End of an era, Professor Boahen travels home" (May 29, 2006) Accra daily mail. (Online) -- Accra, Ghana: Accra Daily Mail, 2005-
  • "In Memoriam: An appreciation of Professor A. Adu Boahen (1932-2006)" by Kwabena Akurang-Parry, Shippensburg University. Posted May 31, 2006. (H-West Africa Discussion Network, H-Net Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  • "Tribute to Prof. Albert Kwadwo Adu Boahen" by Kwame Donkoh Fordwor. (June 6, 2006) GhanaHomePage (Francis Kojo Awuku Akoto, Finland; Rob Bellaart, GhanaWeb.Com, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  
  
• Botswana History Resources (University of Botswana, Department of History, Gaborone)
  "The Botswana History pages by Prof. Neil Parsons and other resources are designed for seekers after knowledge about Botswana. There are 2 pages of general history, followed by 13 informative pages with a historical bias - on archaeology,culture, economy, education, geography, language, literature, politics, religion, science, society, tourism, and media."
  
  
• British Broadcasting Service:    "The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time..." (London)
  Historical summaries by "Africa's top historians" on radio, with audio files from the broadcasts of the BBC Africa Service during February-July 2001; plus "further reading" and related links.
  
  
• Center for Research Libraries -- Cooperative Africana Microform Project: CAMP Guides to Collections (Chicago, Illinois)
  A selection of online guides to collections held by CAMP.
  
  
• Centre de Recherche Cultures, Santé, Sociétés (Aix-en-Provence, France)
  • "L'équipe s'intéresse aux recherches sur l'interface entre biologie et culture, et plus précisément sur les questions relevant de la santé, de la maladie et de son traitement."
  • Lettre du CRECSS, La. (Online) Bulletin d'information bimestriel. -- Aix-en-Provence, France: CRECSS, 2005-
  • Publications du CRECSS
  
  
• Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems (Beltsville, Maryland ; Legon, Ghana)
  The website includes an archive of "articles" edited by Dr. George F. Kojo et al. of the Akan Cultural Symbols Project, an art gallery, forum, reviews and related information on indigenous knowledge of Ghana and other parts of West Africa. "CEFIKS is committed to the utilization of indigenous knowledge systems and other forms of information for capacity building as a way of accelerating socio-economic development in rural and urban areas of Ghana and throughout the West African region."
  
  
• Chronology of Namibian history: from precolonial times to independent Namibia. By Dr. Klaus Dierks (2002) -- Windhoek, Namibia: Klaus Dierks, Namibia Scientific Society, 1999, 2002.
  
  
• CLIO en Afrique: bulletin d'anthropologie et d'histoire africaine en langue française. (Online) -- Paris : Le Groupe de Recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1997-
  
  
• CODESRIA/SOS African History Initiative: "Re-Reading the History and Historiography of Domination and Resistance in Africa"--Call for Papers, 13-15 August 2008, Nairobi, Kenya (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal) PDF format
  The deadline for proposals is May 16, 2008.
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Colonial History of French West Africa: Notes from Archival Documents and Other Sources (1999) (Dr. James Jones, Department of History, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania)
  For use with African History courses: a website with notes in English from the records of the National Archives of Mali and of Senegal, plus other sources, as well as some photographs, a slide show, and related links. See also: the other African History webpages.
  
  
• Cooking Recipes from Africa on the Internet (Columbia University)
  
  
• Contemporary Africa Database (The Africa Centre, London, UK)
  A searchable, online database of "experts" (academic and non-academic; little or no contact info), institutions, and chronologies of important events and dates for Africa since 1950.
  
  
• Cultural Survival Quarterly: The Djenné Project, Mali Issue no. 25.1 and 25.2 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  Two brief summaries of the threat to the historic sites of Djenné from a dam project on the Bani River, a tributary of the Niger River.
  
  
• DAPAMDA: Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art (Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • "The "Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art" -- DAPAMDA was established in 1991 as a volunteer association without any funds. Though established already in 1989, the organization only began to come into life when we started publishing the African cultural magazine named Djembe."
  • DAPAMDA Home Page
  • A "Scandinavian forum for cross culture and world music"-- Djembe Online (Table of contents service, some photos, and general information only.)
  
  
• Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Cheikh Anta Diop -- savant et humaniste (Revue Ankh, Paris, France)
  • Cheikh Anta Diop, the pharaoh of knowledge (Momodou Camara, Nijii, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • "Cheikh Anta Diop, restaurateur de la conscience noire" (janvier 1998). Fabrice Hervieu Wané, Le monde diplomatique. (Online), janvier 1998. (Paris, France)
  
  
• L'Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (Porto-Novo, République du Bénin)
  "L'EPA est un établissement universitaire de formation et de recherche spécialisé dans la conservation et la médiation du patrimoine culturel mobilier et immobilier à vocation régionale." Sur ce site, on peut apprendre les activités de l'école et les actualités culturelles, participer dans un forum, et trouver une liste de liens aux pages d'accueils de musées africaines et d'autres organisations.
  
  
• Eritrean Print and Oral Culture (Lwam Ghebrehariat & Joyce Tam, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
  A digital archive of book covers and selected excerpts from publications in the field of the Eritrean literature, culture, and history, with some online folktales in English and Tigrinya, as well as sound recordings of tales and proverbs.
  
  
• Le Comité pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (Paris, France)
  Le communiqué du comité (du 30 janvier 2006), les membres, le rapport complet (en format PDF), le Prix Mémoire de l'esclavage, et des liens. << Le Chef de l'Etat (en France) a annoncé que la journée des Mémoires de la traite négrière, de l'esclavage et de leurs abolitions sera désormais commémorée chaque 10 mai. >>
  
  
• EthnoAtlas Culture Summaries (Centre for Social Anthropology & Computing, University of Kent)
  (These text files, created in January 1995, are based on information from old monographs and reference works published in the 1970s or earlier)
  
  

• Etonnants Voyageurs, Festival International du Livre, novembre 2006, Bamako, Mali (Saint-Malo, France)
  Sur ce site, on peut trouver les informations sur le festival, mais voir surtout les archives pour les événements des années passées, 2001-2005...pour les programmes des rencontres, les listes des invités, et des débats.
  
  
• Experience Rich Anthropology (Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
  A rich selection of electronic versions of classical ethnographic works, field notes, and outlines for exploring and teaching about Cameroon, Nigeria, Zambia, Southern Africa, and elsewhere.
  
  
• Festival international de géographie de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France (L'Académie de Reims, Reims, France)
  Voir surtout << Les Actes du FIG >> pour trouver les copies des présentations prononcées aux colloques...un certain nombre porte sur l'Afrique.
  
  
• Films and Videos on Africa
  
  
• Gefame: journal of African studies. (Online) -- Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2004-
  Launched in December 2004! "The journal will use the web to facilitate the exchange of ideas between Africa-based scholars and scholars outside the continent of Africa. GEFAME is a peer-reviewed journal. The passages section re-establishes a journal of the African humanities established at Northwestern University and provides a site for commentary..."
  
  
• Gnawa Stories: Mystical Musician Healers from Morocco (Rodrigo Dorfman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  A Masters' thesis project on the history and cultural traditions of the Gnawa, with maps and suggested readings in print and on the web.
  
  
• Campagne internationale pour la sauvegarde de l'île de Gorée (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- Bureau régional pour l'éducation en Afrique, Dakar, Sénégal)
  • Voir surtout: Histoire de l'île de Gorée ; et aussi: Visite virtuelle
  
  
• H-AfrArts Web Page (H-Net--Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Arts Council of the African Studies Association of the United States)
  H-AfrArts is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on the expressive arts of Africa and the African diaspora.
  
  
• H-Africa Web Page (H-Net--Humanitites & Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  H-Africa is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on historical and cultural studies of Africa.
  
  
• H-AfResearch Discussion Network (H-Net--Humanitites & Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  H-AfResearch is a discussion list which focuses on historical research and methodological concerns in African studies. The web site consists of an archive of discussion threads and links to other H-Net Africa lists.
  
  
• Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora (Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada)
  • Areas of Research
    Includes basic information about: The Nigerian Hinterland Project (NHP) -- and -- Ports of the "Nigerian" Hinterland

    General information about the project and its individual and institutional participants. The NHP affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project focuses on the development of the African diaspora stemming from the "Nigerian" hinterland during the era of the slave trade from approximately 1650 to 1900.
  • SHADD--Studies in the History of the African Diaspora--Documents
  • African diaspora newsletter. (Online) -- Toronto, Cananda : York University, Department of History, 2000-- (PDF files)
  • Conferences and seminars organized by the NHP and related projects around the world
  
  
• Histoire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Paris, France)
  Ce site offre une sélection d'études historiques, un annuaire des historiens, des informations sur l'actualité scientifique de l'histoire africaine, quelques cartes, etc. << Le site web est le résutat de la mobilisation et de l'engagement de plusieurs équipes à Ouagadougou, Lomé, Bamako, Niamey, Paris, Abidjan, Montréal, et Dakar. Ces équipes ont été coordonnées depuis Paris par Lydia Samarbaksh-Liberge. Le contenu du site est le travail cooperatif d'un comité de rédaction et du comité scientifique qui est composé d'une vingtaine d'historiens du Burkina Faso, de Côte d'Ivoire, du Mali, du Niger, du Sénégal, du Togo, et de collègues basés au Canada et en France. >>
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Historical Society of Ghana Annual Conference: "History, Our Heritage, and National Development", July 25-28, 2002, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
  The deadline for abstracts/proposals is May 30, 2002. A "call for papers" announcement and contact information.
  
  
• Howard University: SARAP--South African Research and Archival Project (Washington, DC)
  The website includes the online guides to records on deposit at Howard University and to a small selection of collections in South Africa, such as those at the University of Fort Hare. "[In 2001...] This project began as an effort to identify, locate and describe documentation about the diasporic relationship between blacks in South Africa and the United States."
  
  
• Humanities Course on Africa (Cora Agatucci, Department of Humanities, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon)
  This web site is designed to support a college course on the 'study of significant Sub Saharan African works of traditional oral arts or 'orature,' and modern literature and film, representing a diversity of peoples and cultures from key historical periods.' The site includes a useful table of    African Timelines, with hypertext links to other resources on the Internet.
  
  
• Images of Ethiopia (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  A small library of historical sites, ceremonies and other images in GIF format...from highland Ethiopia.
  
  
• Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports. (Online) -- Resources Center (Ohio University, Athens, Ohio)
  The website offers selected news links, other web links, and bibliographic citations for publications (books, book chapters, journal articles) on sports in African societies.
  
  
• Intellectuels non europhones. par Ousmane Kane. Document de travail. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2003. (Format PDF)
  
  
• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property: Conservation of Immovable Cultural Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Africa 2009
  (Rome, Italy) See: French version
  "In 1998, AFRICA 2009 was introduced at a regional meeting of African cultural heritage professionals held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. This programme is a joint effort of Africa cultural heritage organizations, ICCROM, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and CRATerre-EAG. It is rooted in the notion that the problems facing conservation in Africa must be addressed not only through technical solutions, but also through better taking into account the relationship between the immovable heritage and its relevant communities and overall environment."
  -- See especially: Activities & projects ; Documentation ; and, Events calendar.
  
  
• Internet African History Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham University, Bronx, New York)
  An extensive compilation of links to available information and documents on the Internet --frequently updated and organized into broad historical periods and individual countries.
  
  
• Iron Roads in Africa = Les Routes du Fer en Afrique (See below: UNESCO Intercultural Dialogue)
  
  
• 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)
  • Voir aussi: Autour d'Ishango (Vrjie Universiteit Brussels)
  
  
• Islam in Africa The Study of Religion in Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Islam -- General Resources (Compiled by the Middle East & North African Studies Librarian, Columbia University)
  
  
• África and Islam: Biblioteca Virtual (oozebap.org, Barcelona, Spain)
  This "virtual library" offers a selection of online books and book excerpts available on the Internet
  -- in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, or Catalan, and links to online journals and websites related to African and Islamic societies. "oozebap ...aims to study in depth and to promote contemporary african and islamic societies. Among our activities since 2005: edition and publication of books; an online public library (with papers, books and journals in english, french, arab, spanish, portuguese and catalan); monthly articles and interviews about geopolitics and contemporary culture in Africa (in english, spanish, french and catalan)..."
  
  
• Islam in Contemporary Africa (February 2006) Compiled by Paul Schrijver. Library, Documentation, and Information Department. (Afrikastudiecentrum = African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
  See also: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Web Dossier(2005). Produced for a Conference on "Islam, Disengagement of the State, and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa" held at UNESCO in Paris on 12-13 May 2005. Plus: Islam in Nigeria--Web Dossier and Bibliography (2005)
  
  
• Jenda : a journal of culture and African women studies -- Binghamton, NY : African Resource Center, Inc., 2001- --ISSN 1530-5683
  Current issue and back issues (since March 2001). "JENDA documents and responds to debates on women's history and studies in African social, cultural, political, and economic systems. It creates a forum for African women scholars, analysts and activists to participate on an equal fooing with their contemporaries worldwide..."
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Guide to The Karis-Gerhart Collection: South African Political Materials, 1964-1990 (Cooperative Africana Microform Project--CAMP, The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois)
  This is the online version of the guide to the microfilmed documents from the project held by CAMP---available through interlibrary loan to member institutions. "The historical materials in this catalogue were assembled in the process of writing volumes 5, 6, and 7 of From Protest to Challenge: a Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1990, published by Indiana University Press in the United States and the University of South Africa Press in South Africa."
  
  
• The Kebra Negast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (I)...translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (1932). Internet Sacred Text Archive. (Christopher M. Weimer, September 2002)
  A web version of one of the founding texts (in English translation) of the Christian kingdom and empire in what later became known as Ethiopia and Eritrea.
  
  
• Kenya Coast Bibliography (2000), compiled by Jan Hoorweg -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2007.
  "The first version of this bibliography was published as a chapter in the Kenya Coast Handbook and covered the period up to 1996 (Hoorweg & Hekken 2000). The present digital version has been updated until the year 2000 and contains 1479 titles."
  
  
• Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 1922-2006
  • Africultures: "Ki-Zerbo, Joseph (décembre 2006)" (Paris)
  • leFaso.Net: Nécrologie de Joseph Ki-Zerbo (décembre 2006) (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  • Grioo.Com: "Le professeur Joseph Ki-Zerbo (1922-2006)" (Paris)
  • Hommage du Professeur Joseph Ki-Zerbo en 2005 (ENDA--Environnement et développement du tiers monde, Dakar, Sénégal)
    Durant le mois de mai 2005, il y aura lieu deux cérémonies d'hommage à Saint-Louis et à Dakar, au cour desquelles sera diffusé le film de Dani Kouyaté: << Joseph Ki-Zerbo: Identités, Identité pour l'Afrique >>. Voir aussi: le site du réalisateur --et-- le Centre d'études pour le développement que Pr. Ki-Zerbo a établi à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
  
  
• African Language Resources on the Internet (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Leptis Magna (Tripolitania) on the Web
  • Leptis Magna.Com (USA)
    "Lepcis Magna or Leptis Magna, an ancient city along the Mediterranean Sea, located near the modern-day city of Al Khums in Libya. The city began as a trading port for the ancient people of Phoenicia around 1000 BC and then became part of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. Lepcis was the most easterly of the three cities that gave the North African region of Tripolitania its name."
  • Lepcis Magna -- The Roman Empire in Africa (UK)
  
  
• Liberia: Past and Present of Africa's Oldest Republic (F.P.M.Van der Kraaij, Ph.D., Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  A political history outline, with biographical entries, maps, photos, and historical summaries; plus selected news and current issues links.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Mali: Ancient Crossroads of Africa (WorldNet Virginia, Prince William County Schools, Virginia State Department of Education, USA)
  A K-12 education website on the history and culture of Mali, with lesson plans, two maps, gallery of photos, and links.
  
  
• "Mama for Story": Excerpts from Tributes to E. M. Chilver and Other Publications (Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn, et al., Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
  This document contains excerpts from articles on Cameroonian history and social anthropology that have appeared in journals published in 1995-1996. There are links to other excerpted texts and related web sites, as well.
  
  
• Mandara Mountains Homepage (S. Cattini-Muller and G. Muller-Kosack, Mandaras Publishing, London, UK)
  • A website highlighting the ethnographic literature and history of the peoples of the northern Mandara mountains in north Cameroon and northeast Nigeria.
  • Northern Mandaras bibliography
  
  
• The World of the Mande: Essays from an undergraduate course on 'peoples and cultures of Africa' (Prof. Misty L. Bastian and her students, Department of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
  • See also: the entire course.
  
  
• MANSA: Mande Studies Association (via Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas)
  • The website includes information about the association's publications and activities, its by-laws, a selection of photographs on Mande culture and daily life, a cultural map; plus related links. "[Founded in 1986] MANSA was organized to increase and encourage communication between scholars interested in all topics of study involving the Mande peoples of West Africa, and the neighbors with whom they interact on a regular basis."
  • MANSA Membership Directory (2004)
  • Actualités de la recherche au Mali. (Online)
    -- Bamako, Mali: Institut de recherche pour le développement, 2001- (Format PDF.)
  
  
• Maps of Africa on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• "Mauritania's Manuscripts" (2005) by Louis Werner; photographs by Lorraine Chittock Originally published in Saudi Aramco World, November/December 2003. (IslamOnline, Doha, Qatar)
  
  
• Hommage à Claude Meillassoux par Bernard Schlemmer (2005) H-West Africa, H-Net Discussion Networks (Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  Un essai avec une longue bibliographie!
  
  
• Music and Dance of Africa
  
  
• Mutations africaines dans la longue durée (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France)
  • Ce site reflète la restructuration de la recherche sur l'Afrique à Paris I depuis 1994: les programmes, les colloques, les publications, et les autres activités des spécialistes sur l'Afrique surtout dans les domaines de l'histoire, de la science politique, de la sociologie, et de l'anthropologie.
  • Axes problématiques
  • Ressources
    Cette partie du site comprend un recueil de    bibliographies et les    résumés des thèses qui o