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General Education and Outreach

***African Studies Association's 2007 Teachers Workshop on Africa, October 19, 2007, New York.
Co-sponsored by the Local Arrangements Committee of the 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the ASA Outreach Council.


• Africa (PBS Online, Public Broadcasting Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia)
  Promotional site for "Africa" the 8 part television series co-produced by WNET/Thirteen's Nature and The National Geographic Society, which begins airing in September 2001. The site includes excerpted texts, photos, "teacher tools", and other resources. See also, the National Geographic website below.
  
  
• Africa Access Review (Brenda Randolph, Silver Spring, Maryland)
  "Africa Access was founded in 1989 to help schools, public libraries, and parents improve the quality of their children's collections on Africa. Our online database, Africa Access Review, contains over 1000 annotations and reviews of books for children. These critiques and descriptions are written by university professors, librarians, and teachers most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in African Studies. In recent years, we have expanded beyond our original mission to include Research and Reading projects."
  
  
• "Africa Connects: Education in the Internet Age, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-13 July 2001 (Western Cape Schools' Network, SchoolNet SA, International Education and Resource Network--I*EARN, and the University of Cape Town)
  General conference information, call for papers, and registration. The deadline is June 1, 2001. "Using the Internet and computers in schools, to support and transform education. AFRICA CONNECTS will cover a wide range of topics in educational computing and educational use of the Internet, in the form of presentations and hands-on workshops. A central theme will be developing access to technology in Africa and developing countries."
  
  
• Africa: Africa World Press Guide to Educational Resources from and about Africa. (Online) Compiled and edited by WorldViews. -- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., 1997.
  This web site is the electronic version of a 200+ page illustrated book. The electronic edition contains the full text of the chapters, without illustrations, and very helpful, albeit incomplete, bibliographic citations. A full bibliography of the works cited in the text is only available in the print edition.
  
  
• Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair Association, 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 Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and African Studies Program, Madison, Wisconsin)
  The website offers downloadable images, sound files, and other materials on Africa drawn from contributions by UWM faculty over the last 20-30 years.
  
  
• African Educational Research Network (AERN) (via North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina)
  • The website includes research papers, an online journal, and selected web links relating to education in Africa and African studies in the USA. 'Founded in 1992, the mission of the AERN is to promote research capacity building through collaborative actions.' The network includes Cumberland College (Kentucky), Ohio University, NC State University, University of Manchester (UK), University of Ottawa, National University of Lesotho, Bayero University (Nigeria), Oklahoma University, Kenyatta University, and Clark Atlanta University.
  • African symposium: a journal of educational research on Africa. (Online) -- Raleigh, North Carolina: African Educational Research Network (AERN); via North Carolina State University, 2001--
    See the "Archives" for the most recent and all of the back issues.
  
  
• African Studies Center Outreach Program, Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts)
  Information about the resources available from the Outreach Center, includes: online "travelling kits" on Ghana and Kenya, the online catalog of videos, materials for purchase, and other services.
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• Association for the Development of Education in Africa = L'association pour le développement de l'éducation en Afrique (Paris, France)
  • "The ADEA was established at the initiative of the World Bank in 1988. Its objective was to foster collaboration and coordination between development agencies in support of education in Africa. ADEA now focuses on developing partnerships between Ministers of Education and funding agencies..."
  • Under construction: PRISME: Program and Project Information System on Education
    In English or French: a proposed searchable database on education projects in Africa.
  
  
• Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH) (Silver Spring, Maryland)
  The web site of the organization originally founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1915. General information about the ASALH's activities and leading members; and about Woodson's contributions.
  
  
• Association of African Universities (AAU) = Association des Universités Africaines (Accra, Ghana)
  • "The Association of African Universities [founded in 1967] is an international non-governmental organisation set up by the universities in Africa to promote cooperation among themselves and between them and the international Academic community."
  • AAU newsletter. (Online) -- Accra, Ghana: AAU, 1997-- PDF format.
  • Study Programme on Higher Education Management in Africa
    This section of the website includes a listing of AAU research projects and an archive of online research papers (PDF format).
  
  
• Centre for Higher Education Research and Information, Open University: The Role of Universities in the Transformation of Societies (London, UK)
  See 2003 reports on Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa (in PDF format).
  
  
• Council on Foreign Relations: Africa (Washington, DC)
  This site offers current US foreign policy news and general information on the Council's Africa program, including: brief biographical profiles of research fellows at the Council & contact information; selected online texts on projects and policy meetings; and links to related sites. See also the general home page.
  
  
• Colloque International << Le droit à l'éducation: quelles effectivités au Sud et au Nord? >>, du 8 au 12 mars 2004, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (via Association Francophone d'Education Comparée--AFEC, Paris, France)
  
  
• East Africa Living Encyclopedia--"Teaching and Learning About East Africa" Project (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  Basic information on five East African countries summarized and organized under broad subject headings, some teaching ideas, and internet links. "Teaching & Learning about East Africa Project (TLEAP) is a 'living library'--a work in progress--of resources for teaching and learning about East Africa and about Swahili, the most widely spoken language of that region. The educational resources are provided or recommended by East Africa experts on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and Delaware State University, and by Master Teachers of the School District of Philadelphia."
  
  
• Global Volunteers Service Programs (St. Paul, Minnesota)
  • "Global Volunteers, a private non-profit, non-sectarian development organization, was founded in 1984 with the goal of helping to establish a foundation for peace through mutual international understanding. Our programs center around a one-, two-, or three-week volunteer work experience in Asia, Africa, the America, the Caribbean, Europe, or the Pacific."
  • Ghana
  • Tanzania
  • GV Home Page
  
  
• H-AfrTeach Web Site & Discussion List (H-Net; Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  "The mission of the H-AfrTeach web site and discussion list is to provide a stimulating forum for considering the possibilities and problems involved in teaching about Africa. It is intended for a wide audience, encompassing educators, students and others with an interest in teaching about Africa at all educational levels." The web site itself also includes links to lesson plans and other resources.
  
  
• K-12 Educational Resources for African Studies Outreach (University of Wisconsin, Madison, African Studies Program--Outreach Services)
  A collection of annotated lists of resources.
  
  
• K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources, 1994-96
  (Dr. Ali Dinar, African Studies WWW, University of Pennsylvania)
  "The aim of this guide is to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom, for research and studies. [includes "lesson plans"] This guide summarizes some relevant materials for K-12 available on the African Studies WWW. The African Studies Web also contains information that is not listed in this guide. ... This guide illustrates both how to find resources for teaching about Africa on-line; and how to navigate the Internet."
  
  
• Ohio University: Institute for the African Child (Athens, Ohio)
  "The children of Africa are the interdisciplinary focus of the Institute for the African Child at Ohio University. We seek to promote research, teaching, and service that consider children in the process of the African continent's socio-economic development."
  
  
• Portes d'Afrique (Le Figaro, Paris, France)
  Huit mois de voyage, près de 20.000 milles parcourus à la voile autour de l'Afrique...Retrouvez le récit d'un grand périple à la rencontre de l'afrique maritime...avec 12 écrivains-voyageurs contemporains, y compris: Ken Bugul, Abdourahman Waberi, Florent Couao-Zotti, et Alain Mabanckou.
  
  
• ProTeacher! -- Africa Lesson Plans for Elementary School Teachers (USA)
  A collection of links to ideas for teaching Africa in grades K-6 in the United States; part of a larger website for American elementary school teachers.
  
  
• SchoolNet: African Education Knowledge Warehouse (Braamfontein, South Africa)
  The website includes information on ICTs and computers in schools, reports on ICTs & education in Africa, programs, conferences & workshops, etc. "[Founded in 1999] SchoolNet Africa is one of Africa's first African-led, African-based non-government organisations (NGO) that operates across the continent in its endeavour to improve education access, quality and efficiency through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in African schools."
  
  
• South Africa Today (Mark Swiger et al., New York)
  "South Africa Today is a Fulbright-Hayes curriculum development project and a study of the Republic of South Africa. Sponsored by the Phelp-Stokes Fund and the Africa Fund and funded by the United States Department of Education, the project lasted five weeks (mid July to mid-late August, 1995)." This site explains the seminars held at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York and on tour at universities, technikons, and schools in South Africa. The main purpose of the project is to promote Internet and other computer skills in the schools of South Africa and the United States. The project includes an e-mail (pen-pal) program for school children.
  
  
• South African politics: an introduction using internet resources (Dr. Allison Drew, Department of Politics, University of York, UK)
  The site offers historical summaries, illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliographical sources, and exercises. "This course provides a brief introduction to South African politics and political history using internet-based resources. It introduces students both to the types of internet resources that are available on this topic and to their use. Students can develop research skills using the web through simple web-based exercises."
  
  
• Takam Tikou: L'actualité de l'édition jeunesse en Afrique et dans le monde arabe La joie par les livres. (Centre National du Livre pour Enfants, Paris, France)
  
  
• Tanzania Course (Dr. Frances Vavrus, Columbia University Teachers' College, New York)
  The website includes the course syllabus, photographs, and Tanzania-related  links. "This intensive (study abroad) four-week course provides students with a unique opportunity to observe development policy in practice in the Kilimanjaro and Arusha Regions of northern Tanzania. In this course, development refers to a reduction in a person's sense of vulnerability to the social, political, and economic forces which s/he does not necessarily control. Policy is used to describe a statement of an institutions stance on any issue, with the assumption being that every stance is a political strategy designed to effect change in a particular direction."
  
  
• University of Cape Town: Multimedia Education Group (MEG) (Cape Town, South Africa)
  This site offers examples of projects and includes reports from Cape Town; plus related web links. "[Established in March 1997] MEG's central focus is the development and implementation of computer based teaching resources for selected disciplines."
  
  
• Coverdell World Wise Schools -- Africa Lesson Plans (Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools -- Educators; sponsored by United States Peace Corps, Washington, DC)
  
  
• Yenza!: using the Internet for research and teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre for Science Development, HSRC, Pretoria & INFOLIT of the Cape Library Cooperative, South Africa--Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; via National Research Foundation, South Africa)
  A general list of annotated links for basic research--mostly within South Africa.
  
  

Art, Film and Music

• African Odyssey Interactive: Arts and Education (ArtsEdge, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC)
  This site offers links to basic information about African arts (music, theatre, literature, and art) and past performances; plus some teaching lesson ideas mostly for elementary schools.
  
  
• Guide to African Women Cinema Studies (Beti Ellerson, Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC)
  A teaching and learning guide, with suggested films, links to selected film web sites, and the 1991 Statement by African Women Professionals at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
  
  
• Art & Archæology of Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Films and Videos on Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Kiboko Projects & Galleries (Mark Scheflen et al., Visual Arts Program, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York)
  Since 1995, Mark Scheflen has been director of a program designed to nurture child artists in New York, Kenya, and South Africa. This web site features information about the various programs and several galleries of the children's art (for sale).
  
  
• Music and Dance of Africa on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  

Business and Economics

• Africa renewal. (Online) -- New York: UN Dept. of Public Information, 2004-
  Formerly known as: Africa Recovery (1996-2004).
  Current electronic issue in full; available in English or French. There is a link to an archive of some previous issues, but each back issue is only composed of a few excerpts and the table of contents.
  
  
• AllAfrica.Com--Business & Technology Center (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  • Current and recent news from all over the African continent on business news. The principal sources of news reporting are African newspapers and news services, and UN agencies. Warning: the searchable archive for articles older than 30 days is only available through subscription.
  • NEPAD-related News
    A compilation of current news summaries related to the "New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development". See also: NEPAD websites below.
  • AllAfrica Foundation's "Sustainable Africa" News, Organizations, and Documents (See below)
    
  
  
• Business and Economic Information on Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)
  An extensive list of annotated links to African economic information, including news, economic research organizations, central banks, regional development organizations, chambers of commerce, stock exchanges, conferences, etc.
  
  
• The Internet in Africa (Columbia University)
  A set of links to major web sites on Internet Service Providers (ISPs), conferences, Internet development projects, and connectivity issues in Africa.
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  • "To assist companies and business people around the world to do business in and with Africa. In its pages you will find information on the business opportunities and challenges in the countries of Africa, the companies and organisations active in various industry sectors (Oil, Gas, Chemicals, Mining etc.), the leading business and government personalities, stock exchanges, details of conferences and exhibitions, a directory of products and services, the larger development projects currently underway in Africa, and information on the African Stock Exchanges."
  
  
• NEPAD: New Partnership for Africa's Development, New African Initiative & Related Documents, 2001-- (via United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• US Government Agencies on African Economic Development (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  

Environment, Geography, Maps, and Science

• 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.
  
  
• Climate, Environment, & The Weather in Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• The Environmental History of Africa -- An Internet/CD Course (Prof. James C. McCann, Department of History and African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massacusetts)
  This website includes the course syllabus, thematic maps and photographs, other images, and related information.
  
  
• Maps of Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  A list of online maps and other Internet resources for African geography.
  
  
• National Geographic's "Africa: The Series" (Washington, DC)
  Promotional site about the 8-part television series beginning on public television in September 2001, co-produced by WNET/Thirteen's Nature. The site includes text excerpts and photographs; plus, related links to Africa-related resources and a "Kids" section.
  
  
• Science and Technology in Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Science in Africa. (Online) -- Grahamstown, South Africa : Science in Africa, 2001-
  Current issue and back issues since January 2001. A popular monthly news magazine about scientific research and development on the African continent, plus information about funding and job opportunities and links to organizations.
  
  
• USAID Famine Early Warning System (See below under "United States Government Agencies.")
  
  

History, Philosophy, and Religion

• 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 an archive of interviews with African studies scholars across the disciplines based at or visiting the university. Conversations are recorded in downloadable formats---MP3, for iTUNES, Podcast, etc.
  
  
• African Biography on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• African History Homepage (Dr. James Jones, Department of History, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania)
  For use with African History courses: 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 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 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".
  
  
• Afrocentricity and the Black Athena Debate (Professor Wim van Binsbergen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; via GeoCities)
  A collection of articles in English and French on the issues surrounding Martin Bernal's multi-volume work-in-progress, "Black Athena".
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Ancient Egypt on the Internet (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• BBC World Service Presents: "The Story of Africa--African History from the Dawn of Time..." (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  Historical summaries by "Africa's top historians" on radio, originally with audio files from the broadcasts of the BBC Africa Service during February-July 2001.
  
  
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Gallica Voyages en Afrique (Paris)
  • << 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 thématique, et accès spécifique par un parcours pour les revues
  
  
• Botswana History Pages (Prof. Neil Parsons et al., Department of History, University of Botswana, Gaborone)
  "The Botswana History Pages 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."
  
  
• Columbia University, Digital Library Collections: Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline. (Online). Edited by Thomas M. Callaghy and John Ravenhill -- New York: Columbia University Press, 1997 (1993).
  Note: This online book is available ONLY to Columbia faculty, students, and staff (User ID and password required).
  
  
• Contemporary Africa Database (The Africa Centre, London, UK)
  Under construction: 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• G.I. Jones' Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture (Prof. John C. McCall, in cooperation with Ursula Jones, Dept. of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois)
  "This is an archive of digitized photographs depicting the arts and cultures of southeastern Nigeria. The collection includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples. All of the photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G.I. Jones, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The majority of the images are from the Igbo speaking regions where Jones conducted most of his research."
  
  
• The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: African Immigrant Experience (Philadelphia)
  This section of the HSP site is based on the 2001 project of the former Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies on African immigrant communities of Philadelphia (includes seven detailed personal history accounts of immigrants; plus a directory of organizations and businesses).
  
  
• History & Cultures of Africa on the Internet (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Islam in Contemporary Africa (February 2006) A bibliography 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)
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• People and cultures of Africa: an undergraduate course (Prof. Misty L. Bastian and her students, Department of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
  "The goal of this project is to create an informative Web site that will provide insight into many of the wonderful aesthetics, beliefs and histories of West African cultures." Note: The site features essays on: "The Mande World"; "The Yoruba World"; and, "Cameroon". The course syllabus and a Web links page are also included.
  
  
• "Peoples & Cultures of Africa": Undergraduate Course at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (Prof. Glenn Davis Stone, Department of Anthropology)
  This is the website for the course in Fall 2003, including links to online resources.
  
  
• The Study of Religion in Africa and the Diaspora (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• The Say Brother Collection -- WGBH Boston (Boston, Massachusetts)
  The website of the archive of a local public television program (1968-1982), featuring a searchable program directory and an extensive digital gallery of sample film excerpts. "Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as  Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers..."
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History: African Voices (Washington, DC)
  • This web site offers glimpses (images and explanatory texts) of the permanent "African" exhibitions at the museum, plus:
  • African history
  • Bibliography
  • Web links
  
  
• UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- History and World Heritage (Paris, France)
  • 2004: Slavery Abolition Year -- International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
    
    
  • Intercultural Dialogue
    --  Iron Roads in Africa =  Les Routes du Fer en Afrique

    This site (in English or French) offers information about the UNESCO project on the history of iron technology in Africa. It includes summaries of archaeological research, a list of researchers and their works (as of 1994), information about conferences, films and exhibitions, publications, and links.

    --  La Route de l'Esclave =  Slave Route Project, 1994-2005

    Sur ce site, on peut trouver les informations à propos de ce projet, des publications, des activités du Comité scientifique, quelques cartes sur les routes internationales de la traite négrière, et aussi, un exemplaire d'un bulletin (PDF), et des liens choisis.
    
    
  • Slave Trade Archives Project (Memory of the World)
    This site offers general information about the project and links to related web sites. "The Slave Trade Archives Project, initiated by UNESCO, is concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive materials relating to the slave trade."
    
    
  • World Heritage
    • WH General Home Page
    • "Launch of African World Heritage Fund" (May 2006)
    • Africa Revisited = Nouveaux regards sur l'Afrique
      An overview of African history, archaeology, and cultures, with brief summaries, illustrations, and photos.
    • World Heritage in Danger, Africa 1998-2007 (French/English):
      - Aapravasi Ghat (Mauritius)
      - Air & Ténéré (Niger)
      - Ambohimanga, Royal Hill (Madagascar)
      - Cercles mégalithiques de Sénégambie = Stone circles of Senegambia (The Gambia)
      - Chongoni Rock Art Area (Malawi)
      - Djoudj--Parc national des oiseaux (Senegal)
      - Drakensberg Park, uKhahlamba (South Africa)
      - Garamba National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
      - Gebel Barkal and sites of the Napatan Region (The Sudan)
      - Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town (Ethiopia)
      - Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia)
      - James Island and Related Sites (The Gambia)
      - Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
      - Kasubi, Tombs of Buganda Kings (Uganda)
      - Kondoa Rock Art Sites (Tanzania)
      - Koutammakou, land of the Batammariba (Togo)
      - Lamu Old Town (Kenya)
      - Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park (Central African Republic)
      - Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (South Africa)
      - Matobo Hills (Zimbabwe)
      - Mount Nimba Strict Nature Preserve (Guinea & Côte d'Ivoire)
      - Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
      - Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (Nigeria)
      - Royal Palaces of Abomey (Bénin)
      - Saint-Louis Island (Sénégal)
      - Simien National Park (Ethiopia)
      - Sukur Cultural Landscape (Nigeria)
      - Timbuktu (Mali) -- 2005 update
      - Tsodilo (Botswana)
      - Virunga National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
      - Zanzibar, Stone Town (Tanzania)
      
      -- The complete World Heritage Site list for Africa
      -- The World Heritage List: 2007 (General)
      -- World Heritage Newsletter = La Lettre du Patrimoine Mondial. (Online) -- Paris: UNESCO World Heritage, 1993-
      Current issue, back issues, and information on subscriptions via e-mail.
      
      
  
  
• Wonders of the African World, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS Online)
  • The web site that accompanies the television series -- a travel show, with brief history lessons and Gates' own views -- with order information for the video set. The site includes very brief supplementary texts, video files, teaching suggestions, and small photos relating to the historic sites, monuments, and cultures featured in the series: the Nile River valley in Egypt and The Sudan, Ethiopia, the Swahili coast, Bénin (Dahomey), Ghana (Asante), Mali, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
  • "Special Issue on 'Wonders of the African World'". West Africa review. (Online) 1, 2 (January 2000)
    -- Binghamton, NY: Africa Resource Center, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1999-.
    Debates by Ali A. Mazrui, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Wole Soyinka, Joseph Inikori, Molefi Kete Asante, and many others. See also, the Home Page of "West Africa Review. (Online)".
  
  
• World History Archives (Haines Brown; via Hartford Web Publishing, Connecticut)
  • A compilation of opinion articles and debates from African studies e-mail discussion lists, general & alternative online news sources, plus lectures by African studies scholars."
  • History of Africa as a whole
  • Egypt and the Maghrib
  • Horn of Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Central Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  
  

Languages and Literature

• African Language Resources (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• African Literature on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• African Review of Books (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 Association of the United States: Children's Africana Book Awards (via Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  A list of the award-winnning books, fund-raising initiatives, and contact information.
  
  
• African Writers Series -- Heinemann (Harcourt Publishers, Oxford, UK; Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
  A commercial publisher's site which offers a list of their African authors, with biographical and book information.
  
  
• Children's Literature Research Unit, University of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Select bibliographies of South African and other African children's literature.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies (University of Kent, U.K.)
  "The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies seeks to collate and connect the different research and researchers with an interest in the Mambila people of the Nigeria - Cameroon borderland and their neighbours; their languages and the area in which they live. We take a broad view of Mambila, including other groups speaking related languages such as Kwanja, Vute, Wawa, Nizaa, Njerep (3 speakers at last count!), Twendi (35 speakers), Tep, and others. Our research is primarily of an anthropological and linguistic nature; abstracts or full texts of papers are available at the site."
  
  

News and Issues Analysis

• News, Sports, & Information Services on Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• ADNA: Advocacy Network for Africa (Washington, DC)
  • This site offers general and contact information for US-based, organizations concerned with Africa, as well as an archive of previous "action alerts" and reports; plus, related links. "ADNA is a progressive non-partisan network of 245 US-based organizations - and growing."
  • ADNA Member Organizations
  
  
• Africa Action -- formerly Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) (Washington, DC):
  • Africa Action -- incorporating the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and APIC.
  • Africa Action Home Page (general)
    
    
  • Africa Policy Outlook 2004 |  2005 | 2006 | 2008
    
    
  • Policy Documents Archive: arranged by region, 1997-2003
  • Policy Documents Archive, arranged chronologically: 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003
    
    
  • Africa Action Campaign to Stop Genocide in Darfur: Resources & Analysis (Washington, DC)
    
    
  • Africa's Right to Health Campaign
  • Africa at Cancun, WTO Ministerial Conference, September 12, 2003
    --  African Agriculture and the WTO
    --  After Cancun, September 17, 2003
    -- Fifth World Trade Organization Minsterial Conference, 10-14 September 2003 (Official website)
    
    
  • US/Africa Trade Wars (June 2003), part 1 | part 2
  • Apartheid Debt and Reparations Campaign -- AfricaAction Briefings, 2002
  • "Weaving the ties that bind": final project report (December 2001) (Imani Contess, former Director of Africa Policy Information Center)
    A report on the prospects for greater influence on US foreign policy towards Africa by activists outside of government.
  • APIC on "Africa and Conflict Diamonds, November 2001"--Part 1 | Part 2
    A summary of background news, reports, and links to pertinent documents and websites.
  • "World Conference Against Racism", August 31-September 7, 2001, Durban, South Africa: Part 1 | Part 2 | Durban Position Paper | Update
  • "Africa's Debt -- Africa Action Position Paper" by Ann-Louise Colgan (July 2001)
  • "USA: Bush and Africa, the Coming Apathy" by Salih Booker (December 13, 2000)
    A brief opinion/analysis.
  • USA-Africa Trade Documents, 1999: Part 1 | Part 2 (USA-Africa trade bills under discussion....see also, documents below from ACAS on 1998-99 actions in the US Congress -- including July 1999)
    For current news since January 2001 -- under the Bush Administration -- see: U.S. Dept. of Commerce's AGOA Website below. See also: The Trade and Development Act signed by President Clinton, May 2000 is available from the US Trade Representative.
  • "United States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework," by William Minter, Senior Research Fellow, Africa Policy Information Center, Washington, DC. Foreign Policy in Focus: Special Report (November 5, 1999).
  • International Policies, African Realities: An Electronic Roundtable (APIC, in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and assistance from Bellanet)
    The Roundtable ran from January 8-May 8, 2000. "The Roundtable will try to use the opportunities opened up by new electronic communication technologies to come up with new ways of putting together and conveying African knowledge. It will experiment with means by which African-initiated content and perspectives can be projected into policy debates on African issues taking place outside the continent."
  • Africa's problems ... African initiatives. (1998) Edited by William Minter
    This online and print publication consists of edited versions of three documents: "African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programs for Socio-Economic Recovery and Transformation" (July 1989) ; "African Charter for Popular Participation in Development and Transformation" (February 1990) ; and, The Kampala Document: Towards A Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa" (May 1991)
  
  
• The Africa-America Institute--AAI (New York and Washington, DC)
  • "[Founded in 1953] The AAI's mission is to expand education and professional training opportunities for Africans, foster greater understanding of Africa in America, and promote mutually beneficial U.S.-Africa relations."
  • AAI Education Outreach and Policy Programs
  • AFTECH Symposium on Workforce Development in Africa
  • African Perspectives on the U.S. Trade Bill (1999)
  • AAI Publications
  • AAI Home Page (General)
  
  
• AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
  The website features AfricaFocus bulletin...offering analysis and "progressive advocacy" on African issues; plus news feeds from BBC and AllAfrica.Com.
  
  
• African Elections Database (Albert C. Nunley, via Tripod.Com, USA)
  A compilation of electoral results by country; frequently updated, with results from the 1990s for some countries. Sources include various other election monitor websites; see links.
  
  
• "African Union" -- Documents from the inaugural African Union Summit, June 28-July 10, 2002, Durban, South Africa and other web sites (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) (via University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
  • "Founded in 1977, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to: formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa."
  • ACAS Home Page
  • Bulletin. [Association of Concerned Africa Scholars] (Online): Archive PDF format
  
  
• "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.
  
  
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (London)
  • BBC Online Network News for Africa
    Current news & feature stories.
  • Africa Lives on the BBC
    "During 2005 the BBC will offer a huge variety of programmes and initiatives across all its services - television, radio and online - broadcasting both within the UK and worldwide to highlight and explore African life and culture. ...a fresh look at the continent throughout a year dominated by the G8 conference, the Commission For Africa and the 20th anniversary of Live Aid."
    
    
  • BBC Focus on Africa. (Online) -- London: BBC World Service, 1990-
    The online version of the quarterly magazine, which consists of selections from the current issue and a searchable archive of selected art