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General Resources for African Studies & History
ADDS - Africa Data Dissemination Service: Geographical Area Selection (affiliated with USAID, EROS Data Center, U.S. Geological Survey):
http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/adds/c1/c1.htmlAfrica: South of the Sahara, prepared by Karen Fung (Head of the Africa Collection, Hoover Library, Stanford Univ.) for the Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association, 1994-1999):
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.htmlAfrica Focus: The Sights and Sounds of a Continent (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and African Studies Program, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison): digitalized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program, with a searchable database of more than 3,000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from 45 African countries:
http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/Africa Guide InterActive (Kamusi Project, Yale Univ. Program in African Languages), aspiring to become a "comprehensive guide to African Resources, Languages, and Development and Social Action on the Web":
http://swahili.africa.yale.edu/links/Africa Home Page (Africa Homepage Org., 1998):
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~pks1019/
Directory of African Resources by Topic:
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~pks1019/topic.htmlAfrica Research Central: A Clearinghouse of African Primary Sources (Susan Tschabrun, California State Univ.-San Bernardino):
http://africa-research.csusb.edu/African Philosophy (Bruce B. Janz, Philosophy Dept., Augustana Univ. College, Alberta, Canada): "philosophy which focuses on Africa, philosophy done in Africa, and philosophy that is part of the traditional conversation among African philosophers."
http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/afphilpage.htmAfrican Studies (Galileo Internet Resources/Eric Griffith & University of Georgia Libraries): News, Maps, Africa-Wide & Regional Resources: http://www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/area/africa.html
Or search the site: http://www.peachnet.edu/cgi-bin/intres.cgiAfrican Studies - Annotated Directory of Internet Resources ( Mike Madin, Academic Info):
http://www.academicinfo.net/histafrica.htmlAfrican Studies Internet Resources (Joseph Caruso, Columbia Univ. Libraries):
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/African Studies Quarterly: Online Journal of African Studies
http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/African Studies WWW (Ali B. Ali-Dinar, African Studies Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania):
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List (Ali B. Ali-Dinar) of resources not necessarily included in African Studies WWW: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html
Africa: History: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_hist.html
...Or search UPenn's African Studies Web: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/Search/AS-search.htmlAfrican Timelines (Cora Agatucci, HUM 211, Central Oregon CC) offer embedded links chronologically related to Timeline events & topics:
PART I: Ancient Africa from the Beginnings | ||
PART II: African Empires AD/CE 1st - 15th c. | | ||
PART III: African Slave Trade & European Imperialism 15th - early 19th c. | ||
PART IV: Anti-Colonialism & Reconstruction 19th - mid-20th c. | ||
PART V: Post-Independence Africa & Contemporary Trends, later 20th c. | ||
AFRICAN TIMELINES Sources &Resources for Further Study |
African Voices Newletter
(Africa
Bureau Information Center, U.S. Agency for International
Development/USAID):
http://www.info.usaid.gov/regions/afr/abic/avindex.htm
AfricaOnline, "the
premier provider of internet communications services throughout
Africa" (est. 1994):
http://www.africaonline.com/
Afrique Francophone (Thomas C. Spear, Assoc. Prof. of French, Lehman College, City Univ. of New York), with general interest links, journals, and authors: http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/french/afrique.html
Black Quest Power Resource Links (C.
Arthur Blair): "A comprehensive guide and gateway to African
& African-American history, culture & society":
http://blackquest.com/link.htm
Black Studies: African, African-American, and Caribbean Studies (Dept.
of History, Univ. of North Texas): http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-blak.htm
...African Studies: http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-blk3.htm
Center for African Studies (Univ.
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne):
http://wsi.cso.uiuc.edu/CAS/
Center for World Indigenous Studies, including
the Fourth World Documentation Project
http://www.cwis.org/
Chronology on the History of Slavery and
Racism [in
the U.S.A.]--Eddie
Becker, 1999--"Compiled
from [a]rchive, library and Internet source documentation," and
"used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of
enslaved Americans of African descent at historic sites located at the
National Zoo, in Washington, DC," with the disclaimer that "[t]his
project has been conducted totally independently from research conducted by
the Office of Architectural History and Preservation at the Smithsonian and
the National Zoo. Visit the Holt House Web
Site for periodic updates." This Chronology is broken up
into three parts:
1619-1789: http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
1790-1829: http://innercity.org/holt/chron_1790_1829.html
1830-the end: http://innercity.org/holt/chron_1830_end.html
[last accessed May 2002]
CIA World Factbook,
widely recognized as a fine online source of country information,
offers maps, flags, geographic, population, government, economic,
communication, transportation, military and transnational issue
information on more than 250 countries: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Now: The World Factbook 2 (2000): http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Reference Maps (2000): http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/ref.html
Electronic Journal of Africana
Bibliography (Univ. of Iowa Libraries):
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/proj/ejab/
Encyclopedia Africana: Dictionary
of African Biography, a
"20-Volume Work In Progress Under the Auspice of The
Encyclopaedia Africana Project [EAP], Ghana, West Africa:
http://www.endarkenment.com/eap/
Exploring Africa: An Exhibit of Maps and Travel Narratives, based
on an exhibit by Patrick Scott, 1997, Thomas Cooper Library, Univ. of South
Carolina; hypertext by Jason A. Pierce
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa.html
Historical Maps of Africa - Perry-Castaneda Library Map
Collection, Univ. of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_africa.html
Index on Africa (The Norwegian
Council for Africa - NCA):
http://www.africaindex.africainfo.no/
Integrated Regional Information Network
(IRIN), United Nations' Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), offers free, up-to-date information
on events in Sub-Saharan Africa through a free subscription
service, as well as the IRIN webpage:
http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN/
Daily & weekly e-mail bulletins to subscribers, available in
both English and French, can be individualized for countries and
subject topics specified. Country archives, search function,
& online subscription are available at the IRIN website.
Internet African History Sourcebook
(Paul Halsall) offers numerous and rich ancient, medieval, and
modern "historical sources on the history of human societies
in the continent of Africa" (June-August 1998).
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet (Ali
B. Ali-Dinar, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1994): "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":
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
The Kennedy Center's African Odyssey Interactive (AOI) presents rich resources for artists, teachers and students of African arts & culture: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/odyssey.html
For example: Introduction to African History and Cultural Life: An African Historical Framework by Malaika Mutere (African Studies, Howard University): http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg/ae-guide.html | ||
... History & Geography,
"information and links to resources for
learning about historic and geographic influences on the arts and culture of Africa": http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg.html | ||
...Mapping Africa: Africa and the Diaspora Movement, with clickable maps: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg/ae-map.html | ||
...African Visual and Performing
Arts links to primary resource materials (e.g.
images, audio and video files, and documents): http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/vpa.html Plus links to great websites like these: | ||
...South Africa: Can a Country
Overcome Its History? (Annenberg/CPB Project
Exhibits Collection) http://www.learner.org/exhibits/southafrica/ | ||
...President Clinton's Trip to Africa: follow the President through the continent, via photos, speeches, descriptions of important issues in Africa, and resource guides for teachers: http://www.whitehouse.gov/Africa/ |
Learn about Africa! Jeanne Sept's African Links (Indiana Univ.-Bloomington): http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/links/Africalinks.html
Library of Congress Home Page: http://lcweb.loc.gov/
...Search the Online Catalog: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catalog/
Links: Information on/or Relevant to
Africana Studies (Univ. of Pittsburgh):
http://www2.pitt.edu/~bjgrier/links.htm
National Summit on Africa
"aimed at improving levels of public understanding about
Africa and U.S.-Africa relations; creating an expanded and
broad-based network of support for Africa; enabling a diverse
coalition of organizations and individuals to develop a shared
Plan of Action for U.S. relations with the countries of Africa":
http://www.africasummit.org/
OneWorld Africa: Africa Viewpoint (ed.
Sundie Sinkala):
http://193.128.6.150/news/africa/index.html
PANAPRESS: http://www.panapress.com
(My thanks to Brenda Sanchez, Winter 2002 Hum 211 student, for
recommending this African news website!)
PANAPRESS: About Us
http://www.panapress.com/about/page1.html
(and following):
PANA = Pan African News Agency, created in 1979
by OAS (Organization of African States), an “intergovernmental body”
determined to present a balanced view of African and combat stereotypes of the
continent “as rife with famine, civil war and disease”—exactly the
corrective that Ali Mazrui was talking about, Brenda!
PANAPRESS, ltd., came into being in 1997, an “international news
and information service,” with correspondents and stringers in 51 countries,
supported by UNESCO--”committed to providing an accurate, objective,
yet fresh view of African peoples, politics, and business climates” offered
from ”THE AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE.”
Prominent Africana Collections in U.S.
Academic Libraries (Amy Delicia Bell):
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~abell/Africana.html
Race Relations Institute (dir. Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Fisk Univ.): Related Links http://www.fiskrri.org/home/links.htm
Resources on Africa: Subject Guides & Miscellany (George
A. Smathers Libraries, Univ. of Florida):
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/subjects.htm
Smithsonian Institution:
http://www.si.edu/
Society of Research on African Cultures/SORAC (Dr.
Daniel M. Mengara, French Dept.,Montclair State Univ.):
http://chss2.montclair.edu/sorac/
SourceAfrica, subtitled "The
Premier Internet Site for All Things African," seeks
to provide "the most complete array of information available
on the internet about Africa":
http://www.sourceafrica.com/index.html
Trackstar: An Introduction into the Origins of
Afrocentricity (Zipporah D. McCoy):
http://scrtec.org/track/tracks/t00930.html
USAfricaOnline, the "first African-owned, U.S based professional newspaper to be published on the Internet" (established 1994): http://www.USAfricaonline.com/home.html
Washington Post: Africa
section:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/africa.htm
WoYaa! African Internet Search Engine & Websites
Directory:
http://www.woyaa.com/
Yale Africa Guide InterActive (Yale
Univ. Council on African Studies & the Kamusi Project Internet Living
Dictionary, administered by the Yale Univ. Program in African Languages) aspires
to be "a comprehensive guide to African Resources, Languages, and
Development and Social Action on the Web." (Last updated Feb. 2002)
http://swahili.africa.yale.edu/links/
African Links Table of
Contents
Humanities 211 -
Cultures & Literatures of Africa:
Instructor: Cora Agatucci
cagatucci@cocc.edu
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