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| Links to over twenty African online newspapers, arranged alphabetically. | |
| Provides a forum for librarians and others concerned with the provision of materials for African studies in libraries in the UK. | ||
| Extensive collection of African links covering art and culture, business, education, politics and international relations, history, human rights, religion, literature and recreation. Resources are organised by topic and by region and are accompanied by a brief abstract. | ||
| News service covering the whole of Africa, with sections on business, computing, education, health, music, travel, sport, and women. | ||
| Quarterly African studies newsletter containing articles on current issues such as female circumcision in Africa, democracy in Botswana and pan African language patterns. | ||
| Presents the results of ten case studies examining the impact of development aid on the economic policies of ten African countries Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mali, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria. Countries are categorised as successful reformers, post-socialist reformers, mixed reformers, or non-reformers. Individual country reports are presented as PDF files. | ||
| Articles and features about travel in Africa, details of news and events, and a set of annotated links to related resources compiled by a subject specialist. Topics include adventure activities, city guides, ethnic villages, languages, and national parks. | ||
| Set of articles focusing on a specific group people or activity in a specific African country, including the Dinka tribe in Sudan, child brides in Cote d'Ivoire, death in Ghana, fisherman in Senegal, AIDS in Kenya, and midwives in Ethiopia. Also includes relevant images and annotated links. | ||
| Links to numerous online resources about Africa, African studies, and African publishing. | ||
| Provides an insight into means of written communication used in various African regions. Users are invited to click on an interactive map to investigate systems in operation in Northern, Eastern, Western, Central and Southern Africa, or, alternatively, to choose from a selection of syllographic, alphabetic, pictographic, petrographic, chromatographic, or philosophical systems. Information provided includes articles on the development and composition of systems, and samples of the handwritings themselves. | ||
| Details and promotion of African published journals in science, technology and medicine. It offers access to the tables of contents of journals published since 1997, including African Crop Science Journal and the Zimbabwe Veterinary Journal. | ||
| Examines ancient philosophies of Africa, the Near East and prehistory. Resources are in the form of full text Web articles and books and explore themes such as Sangoma divination and therapy, African witchcraft, and Archaeoastronomy. Also provides access to information which assesses African Studies within the realms of intercultural philosophy, globalisation, anthropology, and poetry. | ||
| News resource with reports from Africa's leading newspapers, magazines and news agencies. Material is broken down by region and topic. | ||
| EcoNews Africa is an initiative that analyses global environment and development issues from an African perspective and reports on local, national, and regional activities that contribute to global solutions. | ||
| African ancestry resource with state level and worldwide resources. Provides searchable databases of surnames with submitter details where available, slave data covering birthplace, sex, and colour, census records organised by state, and a library of reference guides, newspaper articles, graphics, and special collections. | ||
| A selection of recipes from Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, and the Island of Zanzibar. Entries can be browsed by type of dish. | ||
| Showcases the work of craftspeople, designers, and shops which feature the arts and crafts of Africa. Biographical information, photographs, and descriptions of work are available for each artist, and a collection of articles provides information on glass bead making, strip cloth weaving, Kente motifs and warps, and Malinke motifs. Contains lesson plans for cotton spinning, weaving, and loom construction. | ||
| Online representation of the African Art museum based within the Smithsonian Institution. An 'exhibition' section contains permanent features such as 'Images of Power and Identity', 'The Art of the Personal Object ', and 'The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300 1897', with details of past exhibitions also available. An 'education' section provides information on museum tours, films, lectures, and workshops taking place, while a 'resources' section documents library facilities, photographic archives, and the work of the conservation department. | ||
| Catalogue of ants found in West Africa, including a paper about their significance to tree crops such as cocoa. Assists those wishing to identify ant species, through diagrams, illustrations and exploration of relationships between species. | ||
| Project providing an insight into the peoples and cultures of Africa, with sections on Mande regions, languages, religions, social practices and systems, Yoruba religion, divination, and cosmogony, and Cameroon and Cameroonian people. Also hosts an art gallery which displays artefacts such as an Egungun headress, a Mangala board, a Mende Bundu mask, and an Ibeji figurine. | ||
| Provides an ongoing examination of African poverty, and World Bank efforts to monitor the situation. Features the Africa Household Survey Databank (AHSD) which offers results from socio economic surveys of African countries which have been carried out over the past decade. | ||
| Details of online and bibliographic resources on publishing and book development in Africa, journals and newsletters containing articles on various aspects of African publishing, and addresses of African publishers. | ||
| Numerous links to online resources about Africa, organised by country and subject, with a special section on literature. | ||
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