An A-Z of African Studies
on the Internet
H-Africa editor Peter Limb compiles and updates this very useful guide every six months.
His work is one of the most important electronic aids for Africana.
Africa
Access Review of Children's Materials
Edited by Brenda Randolph, this web site archives a bibliographic and review service that
specializes in the analysis of children's materials on Africa; reviews are written by
university professors, librarians, and teachers, most of whom have lived in Africa and
have graduate degrees in African studies.
Africa Update
This is the electronic edition of the quarterly newsletter of the Central Connecticut
State University African Studies Program.
AFRICABIB.ORG
Includes the Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database, which
indexes over 28,000 articles from over 250 English language and multi-lingual
journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently
cover the African continent and the African Women's Bibliographic Database,
with over 21,000 citations from 1986 to current.
AfricaLink
Maintained by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), this site
facilitates access to the Internet for scientists and policy makers who are often members
of USAID partner networks in the agricultural, environmental, and natural resource
management sectors.
Africalog.com
Source of current events, business, travel, entertainment, sports, and weather
information about Africa. Bilingual in English and French.
African Policy Information Center
APIC is the educational affiliate of the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), a
not-for-profit church, trade union and civil rights group that works with the US Congress
on Africa-related legislation; APIC seeks to widen the policy debate in the US around
African issues and the US role in Africa.
African Population Database
Documentation
Authored by Uwe Deichmann of the University of California, Santa Barbara, this site is a
database of administrative units with associated population figures for Africa.
Afrika-Spectrum
This home page is maintained by the Institut für Afrika-Kunde (IAK), Hamburg, Germany,
which publishes applied research, provides advisory services on contemporary problems of
social, political, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa and monitors and
documents current African affairs.
Afrimuse Discussion List
Afrimuse is an unmoderated listserv that welcomes discussions about music and the
performing arts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora.
Computek
This journal is published by the Kenya Association for the Advancement of Computing
Technology (KAACT).
First Run/Icarus Films, a
long-time distributor of quality educational media, including over 60 documentary films on
Africa.
H-AfrArts
H-Net discussion network focusing on the expressive cultures of Africa and the African
Diaspora.
H-Net discussion network focusing on research in African primary sources.
H-AfrLitCine
H-Net discussion network dealing with African Literature and Cinema.
H-AfrTeach
H-Net discussion network that encourages a wide consideration of both the possibilities
and problems involved in teaching about Africa in many educational
settings.
Hopes on the Horizon
Companion web site for a new two-hour PBS documentary by Blackside, Inc. chronicling
the rise of pro-democracy movements and expansion of civil society in Benin,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Morocco, Mozambique, and South Africa.
Horton Hears the W.H.O. [World Health
Organization]
Edited by Richard Rath, this AIDS and Africa resource page discusses the controversy of
AIDS in Africa initiated by Richard Horton's review in the New York Review of Books.
Index on Africa
The Norwegian Council for Africa, which is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation,
maintains this home page. It contains some 9 menus including a comprehensive News on Africa, Country
Pages, and a fine Subjects Page.
Kinship and Social
Organization: An Interactive Tutorial
Created by Brian Schwimmer of the University of Manitoba, this site reflects on both the
practical educational advantages of hypertext structures and upon some of the wider
theoretical issues of constructing ethnography and linking data and theory.
Library of Congress Bibliographic Search Service
This is the web site for the Nairobi Office of the Library of Congress. The archives
contain indexes of selected periodicals from 24 eastern and southern African countries.
Macmillan in Africa
Macmillan Publishers Limited has been publishing books in Africa for nearly 40 years and
is especially noted for
educational textbooks and supplementary materials in all subjects and at all levels.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Africa: One Continent, Many Worlds is a multimedia online exhibit designed to
accompany a "real" museum exhibit
of the same name traveling through the United States in 1998 and 1999. A great
resource for kids and teachers.
National Register of Archives
This British commission reports on collections of British historical records, wherever
situated, outside the Public Records; some 239 volumes have been published to date.
NEWO African News
This commercial web site is maintained by NeWO (New World), a US and and Singapore-based
firm. Primary divisions of the web site are recent news stories sorted by country and a
listing of media clients.
University Presses On-Line
The Association of American University Presses houses its online catalog of over 75,000
book titles from over 60 presses here.
USAfrica Online
This electronic news medium is published in Houston, Texas and seeks to be the primary
professional source of news for Africans and Americans.
Web Resources
for the Study of Africa
H-Africa editor Gretchen Walsh provides this guide to effectively using web
resources in African Studies research, including links to library catalogs,
indexes, metasites, news sources, and search engines. Covers how to evaluate
and cite web resources.
World News Connection
An online foreign news service provided by the US Government, WNC offers translated and
English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources.
Subscription fees apply.
Association of Concerned African Scholars
(ACAS)
This is a Prairienet web site maintained by the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Founded in 1977, the ACAS is a
group of scholars and students of Africa who formulate alternative analyses of Africa and
US policy, promote exchange, and mobilize US public support on critical issues related to
Africa.
California Newsreel
Founded in 1968, California Newsreel is a non-profit, documentary film and video
production and distribution center that markets a valuable selection of African videos.
Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American
and African Studies
The Institute sponsors predoctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships in Afro-American
and African Studies at the University of Virginia and publishes Africana through the
University Press of Virginia.
Centre Aequatoria
Le Centre Aequatoria is a research center, library, and collection of archives, annex
guesthouse, specialized in the languages, collection of archives, annex guesthouse,
specialized in the languages, cultures, and the (pre-colonial and colonial) history of
sub-Saharan Africa, with special emphasis on the peoples of the central Congo basin.
Michigan State University
African Studies Center
Among the most comprehensive and highly ranked in the United States, the African Studies
Center has over 120 associated Africanist faculty, an extensive curriculum, including
instruction in 29 African languages, and a multifaceted publishing program.
SERSAS
The Southeast Regional Seminar on African Studies is arguably the most active regional
group of Africanists in the United States outside the African Studies Association. A
membership list is provided.
USAID
The government of the United States has developed many economic, political, medical,
educational, environmental, and family programs with African countries. This web site
explores them from the US government's perspective.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center
for African Studies
This important site employs an attractive site that lists hyperlinks to such topics as
human rights, grants and scholarships, and jobs in Africa. Outreach programs to K-12
public school teachers is also a valuable resource.
The Anglican Diocese of the
Republic of Guinea
Maintained by Net Ministries, this site is the home page for the Diocese of Guinea
Anglican Church based at Cathedrale Toussaint in Conakry.
Cape Verde
Home Page
This is the unofficial web site for the Republic of Cape Verde. It is hosted at the
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth campus and edited by Raymond Almeida and Richard
Leary.
RMS Media Services provides Nigerian
media and advertisers with extensive, reliable data on media habits, product consumption,
and political opinion in Nigeria.
Western Sahara
Sponsored by ARSO, the Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au
Sahara Occidental, this web site provides information on the self determination process of
the Sahrawi people of the former Spanish Sahara. The home page is maintained by
Marie-Claire and Emmanuel Martinoli and appears in several European languages including
Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.
Abyssinian Cafe, 192 Hampden
Road, Nedlands, Central W.A 6009, Australia
This Australian Internet cafe offers up Ethiopian food and African Studies
conversation.
The B&R Samizdat Express
Richard Seltzer's English translations from Russian of Alexander Bulatovich's
novels are here. Bulatovich was a Russian officer who went to Ethiopia with
the Russian Red Cross Mission immediately after the Battle of Adwa in 1896
and published first hand accounts of that era. Included are With
the Armies of Menelik II and From
Entotto to the River Baro. Selter's historical novel about Bulatovich,
The Name of Hero is
also online.
Demographic and Health Survey Data
This online resource program is one of the world's largest primary sources
of information on women, men and their families in Africa. Funded primarily
by USAID, DHS has been collaborating with developing country institutions
since 1984 in conducting national surveys on fertility, family planning, maternal
and child health and household living conditions.
Ethiopian Internet
White Pages
Provided by the Ethiopian Scientific Society, this online resource helps Ethiopians
abroad locate each other.
Horn of Africa Resource Guide
Ben Parker's annotated hyperlinks list is divided into regions and resources.
Although prepared in 1995, most of the links are still active.
The Kenyan Human
Rights Initiative
Based at Cornell University, this web site considers human rights issues in
Kenya. Presently featured is the plight of Koigi wa Wamwere.
Nordic African Institute
The Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (NAI) is financed by the Nordic countries (Denmark,
Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) to encourage and conduct scientific research
and studies on Africa in the Nordic countries and promotes cooperation between
African and Nordic researchers.
Oromia Support
Group WWW Site
The Oromia people, their land, culture and their presence in the world's mind
are considered at this web site.
Swahili Internet Dictionary
The Kamusi Homepage is under the auspices of the Program in African Languages
and the Council on African Studies at Yale. The homepage is maintained by
Martin Benjamin.
Ugandanet & Bugandanet
Instructions on two listservs are given. Ugandanet is a network of and by
Ugandans and friends of Uganda. Bugandanet addresses issues pertaining to
the Kingdom of Buganda in Uganda and is open only to native speakers.
Waaberi: Somali Cultural
Home Page
Named after Somalia's national singers and folk dancers, Waaberi as is a rich
list of hyperlinks to a wide variety of Somali cultural topics.
Historical Archaeology Research Group
Based at the University of Cape Town, HARG incorporates the Professor of Historical
Archaeology at the University of Cape Town, Cultural Resource Management work, and
researchers and visiting scholars to investigate colonial Cape Town. The home page is
edited by David Worth.
H-SAfrica
H-Net discussion network dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of South African
history.
Resources on South African
Higher Education
Links to most South African universities, technikons, and several higher education
consortia, as well as numerous research and policy documents from South African
educational policy institutions.
South African Internet Resources
The African National Congress' deep list of links to South African online resources
contains about 20 categories including archives, government agencies and news.
South African News
Sources
Maintained by NeWO (New World), which is a US and and Singapore-based firm, this
commercial web site links to over 30 South African news media.
The Star & SA Times International
This online publication is a joint venture between Independent Group - Gauteng, part of
one of South Africa's largest newspaper publishing groups, and the London-based SA
Times. The merged publication combines the best of SA Times, The Star, The Business
Report, The Cape Argus, The Cape Times, The Pretoria News, and The Natal Mercury.
Access is free.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Web Page
Controversial, innovative, and a role model for the world, the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission attempts to help post-apartheid South Africa find its way and shape its
character.
African Diaspora Web Site
The AFROAM-L discussion group has created a compilation of discussions, research and
original work about African life, culture and history called Griot Online. Information on
griots and the Diaspora is found here.
Africanists in the
Netherlands
Part of Prisma, the Netherland's gateway to development-related research
and higher education, Africanists in Netherlands provides information
on 500 researchers.
Finding People
Karen Fung's helpful list of about 12 search engines for locating people, especially
academics, is at this Stanford University web site.
International
Directory of African Studies Scholars
More fine work by Joseph Caruso at Columbia University is located at this web site, which
is compiled from data sent by Africanists who wanted to be listed here.
