"With the help of the essays, books, articles, maps, and illustrations gathered on this site, it becomes clear that the story of the eradication of the international slave trade to the Americas was not straightforward. It did not happen overnight because laws were passed. It was a long, arduous, and tortuous process that spanned almost nine decades."

'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.

"ABORNE is an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa."
See especially: Conferences -and- Bibliography of publications by ABORNE members
Plus: FrontAfrique below.

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."

A global African politics and contemporary popular culture blog with South African roots, initiated by an International Affairs professor at The New School University in New York.

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.

The website includes galleries of documents, photographs, posters, audio and video files, and an extensive archives list for 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."

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.

Art news, book & exhibition reviews, and portal for African artists from all over the continent, with links to artists & online galleries, museums, book publishers, other sites with news on art, film, music, fashion, & photography, etc.

An African culture news blog, with related web links and information on Africa-related cultural events and programs in Denmark.

A multi-media web site, with bibliography, essays, images, web links, and videos. "Over the course of nearly 20 centuries, millions of East Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and its several seas and adjoining bodies of water in their journey to distant lands, from Arabia and Iraq to India and Sri Lanka."

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.

An outline of links to other sites (including selected books available from Amazon.Com) and brief historical summaries on African history, science, and technology.

"Photography of West Africa and beyond, 1840 to now": digital images of photo albums in the Carl Passavant collection, acquired during Passavant's travels in West and Central Africa, 1883-1885 and now held by the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. This digital project is designed to serve as a repository of historical photographs from Africa. Other collectors and institutions are invited to contribute content.

This site offers digitized works selected from the University's library, encompassing the Africana Digitization pilot project, offering free access tosearchable 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)

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".

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).'

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 >>.

"...est une revue internationale d'histoire des mondes africains, qui privilégie les époques antérieures au XIXe siècle, en dialogue avec d'autres disciplines comme l'archéologie, la philologie, l'anthropologie ou la linguistique."

A collection of articles in English and French on the issues surrounding Martin Bernal's multi-volume work-in-progress, "Black Athena".

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."

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.

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."

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.

This website --in English and in Arabic-- offers a series of articles on the history and cultures of ancient and pre-Islamic Sudan, especially Nubia; includes a bibliography of resources and
a gallery on Ancient Meroe: Naqa and Musawwarat es-Sufra.

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.

"...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.

"...a civil society initiative committed to deepening democracy through the use of memory and archives as dynamic public resources. Established under the auspices of the University of Cape Town and the Nelson Mandela Foundation..."
--See especially: In the Headlines -and- Resources

Veuillez voir aussi: Ngouon.com -- "les grandes journées traditionnelles et culturelles du peuple Bamoun."

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."

'A free and ungated reference center on African American and Global African History with over 3,000 pages' which include: an online encyclopedia; full texts of speeches by famous African Americans; primary documents--such as court documents, government reports, and organizational statements; bibliographies; "Perspectives on African American History" and gateways to web sites of museums, digital text collections, and research centers.

A list of print publications available at Howard University.

"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."

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.

"...est un laboratoire interdisciplinaire (Histoire, Ethnologie, Anthropologie juridique, Sciences politiques) dont les recherches portent sur l'ensemble du continent africain et s'ordonnent autour de 5 axes:Epistémologie et savoirs; Mutations africaines et mondialisations dans la longue durée; Etats, espaces, mémoires; Configurations politiques, mobilisations identitaires et dynamiques religieuses; et Développement et constructions sociales, environnements et santé."
--Veuillez voir le vieux site: Mutationsafricaines dans la longue durée ci-dessous.

--Also known as "Colonial Film Database"
"This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes...The Colonial Film project united universities (Birkbeck and University College London) and archives (British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) to create a new catalogue of films relating to the British Empire."

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.

"...seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines. We invite directional papers that provoke critical debate, and take a fresh approach to key and emergent social, political and economic issues affecting Africa."

Requires Adobe Flash Player or equivalent: The website features a gallery of photographs, the names of photographers, location of filming, recorded sounds of the ocean, birds, people, traffic, and information about the print publication. "'A Day in the Life of Africa' was held on February 28, 2002 with nearly 100 photographers from 26 countries around the world using the 53 countries of the African continent as the backdrop...The main objective of this year's project is the increasing of awareness of the crisis situation on the African continent with more than 25 million HIV positive males and females, including children, and currently increasing at a rate of 2 people infected every minute."

"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.

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 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. >>

For each country in Africa, there is a listing and description of languages, and a map of languages.

Veuillez voir surtout: les invités en 2010. Aussi, on peut consulter les archives et rechercher par le mot-clé "Bamako" pour trouver les profils des écrivains qui participent aux festivals entre 2001 et 2006.
--En plus: Festival 2010: Café littéraire -- Images, Sons et Vidéos

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.

Voir surtout << Les Actes du FIG >> pour trouver les copies des présentations prononcées aux colloques...un certain nombre porte sur l'Afrique.

Le site officiel d'un équipe de chercheurs qui s'intéressent à la question des frontières africaines. C'est le représentant institutionnel français du réseau Aborne (African Borderlands Research Network), initié par Paul Nugent en 2007.
Veuillez voir surtout: Contributions

Un recueil des textes intégrals sur l'histoire de l'Islam et les Peuls: une collection des articles et des extraits de livres en français et en anglais, quelques textes en pulaar, les tables de matières, et des liens à plusieurs sites sur les Peuls dans la région du Sénégal, Mauritanie, Guinée, et les autres pays du Sahel. Veuillez voir aussi: webPulaaku ; webGuinée--Bibliothèque ; et Jamtan Fulani (ci-dessous)

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..."

A Masters' thesis project on the history and cultural traditions of the Gnawa, with maps and suggested readings in print and on the web.

H-AfrArts is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on the expressive arts of Africa and the African diaspora.

H-Africa is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on historical and cultural studies of Africa.

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.

A discussion forum sponsored by the Lusophone African Studies Association, an associate organization of the African Studies Association of the United States.

"H-SAfrica is an international electronic discussion group dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of South and Southern Africa history and culture, and Southern African studies in general. ."

For those with a scholarly interest in West Africa, this site offers access to discussion logs and announcements -- in English and in French; plus, information on how to subscribe and some Africa-related links.

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."

"...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."

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is May 30, 2002. A "call for papers" announcement and contact information.

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."

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.

"Le site...présente des centaines de cartes postales anciennes et photos d'époque du Sénégal, du Soudan français, de Guinée, de Haute-Volta, de Côte d'Ivoire, du Togo, du Dahomey, de Gold Coast, du Niger, du Tchad et du Cameroun. Les images sont accompagnées de leurs légendes originales et, quand c'est possible, de commentaires sur leur contexte historique ou de références littéraires sur le sujet."

A small library of historical sites, ceremonies and other images in GIF format...from highland Ethiopia.

The website offers selected news links, other web links, and bibliographic citations for publications (books, book chapters, journal articles) on sports in African societies.

A site offering summaries of modern and contemporary literary works and films by African intellectuals on the African continent and in the diaspora, videos of presentations by and interviews with African writers and filmmakers--with excerpts from selected African films, announcements about conferences, other events, and forthcoming publications, and an extensive list of links to Africa-related literary, artistic, and other cultural information.
-- See also: CafeAfricana: portal on culture, arts, news, politics, lifestyle, and communty.

Un vidéothèque qui contient des entretiens avec Abdou Diouf, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Joaquim Chissano, Frederik de Klerk, Boris Boubacar Diop, Nurruddin Farah, Kenneth Kaunda, Mac Maharaj, Claude Ernest Ndalla, Wole Soyinka, Wangari Maathai, Alpha Oumar Konare.

"[Opened in August 2007]...It is the only museum of its kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery as well as being an international hub for resources on human rights issues."

"The Society was established in 1991 in London and it draws its international membership from experts and students involved in the exploration of the oral traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora...organizes regular scholarly conferences: London, UK (1991); Legon, Ghana (1995); Cape Town, South Africa (1998); Chambery, France (2002); Banjul, Gambia (2004); and, Trinidad and Tobago (2006); and Lecce, Italy (July 2008)."

An extensive compilation of links to available information and documents on the Internet --frequently updated and organized into broad historical periods and individual countries.

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)..."

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)

A site in English about Fulani history and culture, with illustrated historical summaries, cultural events news in the US diaspora (from 2003 only), photos, videos, cooking recipes, and related links. Plus, a French language magazine from Senegal:
-- Pulaagu. (Online): revue de prestige du Festival des Arts et de la Culture des Foulbe. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Tabital Pulaagu International, 2008. En format PDF
-- See also: webPulaaku below

A university-based blog in South Africa featuring commentaries and interviews. "...an experiment in global conversation based in the South...to be a critical node in the re-territorializing of global intellectual production."
--See especially: The Johannesburg Salon. Edited by Lara Allen and Achille Mbembe. Volume 1 (2009) -and- Volume 2 (2010)

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.

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.
--See also: The Kebra Negast (2000) In Parentheses. -- Cambridge, Ontario, Canada: In parentheses Publications, 2000. (via York University, Toronto, Canada) 279 pages in PDF format.

"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."

A political history outline, with biographical entries, maps, photos, and historical summaries; plus selected news and current issues links.

Un recueil d'essais sur sujets divers en ce qui concernent les droits de l'homme en France et ses territoires coloniaux depuis la fin du 19ème siècle jusqu'au présent et les relations entre la France et les anciennes colonies depuis le temps des indépendances.

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.

A K-12 education website on the history and culture of Mali, with lesson plans, two maps, gallery of photos, and links.

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.

Brief information on the Upper Limpopo River valley iron-age archaeological sites in South Africa and Botswana which pre-date the Great Zimbabwe ruins in Zimbabwe.
--See also: University of Pretoria's digital repository on "Mapungubwe Collections" and its
Mapungubwe Museum

"The fourteen collections on this web site are among the most important of these manuscript collections [at the library of the Society]. They consist of diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions."

This web site features text summaries, maps, and photos on the Okavango region and its people, and on Botswana, in general; plus a compilation of useful links.

"Les personnes souhaitant présenter une communication à ce colloque sont priées d'envoyer un CV léger et un résumé de 2000 signes en français ou en anglais avant le 15 août 2010."

"To bring together prehistorians, palaeontologists and geologists from one end of the continent to the other." The 14th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies will take place at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in July 2014.
--See also: past congress proceedings

A web presentation--with images and essays and information about the exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, February-July 2003, and to begin a national tour thereafter. [Note: The Mourides are members of a Muslim brotherhood or movement originating in Senegal.]

Une archive d'une publication sous la direction de l'écrivain camerounais Mongo Beti: "la revue des radicaux noirs de langue française publiée par Mongo Beti et son épouse Odile Tobner de 1978 à 1991."
En plus, il y a un résumé de la vie et les ouvrages de Mongo Beti.

"The Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists (Bard College, USA) has chosen to celebrate Africa's first world cup by sending 13 African writers to 13 cities for two weeks during the World Cup [12 African cities, plus Salvador do Bahia in Brazil]. Each writer will produce a book of nonfiction prose, Travel Literature, of 30,000 words, for publication in Africa and abroad." Co-sponsored with Chimurenga, Kwani?, and Kachifo Ltd.

"Le but de ce site web est de mettre à la disposition du public plusieurs documents qui touchent à la vie et au travail de Placide Tempels, l'auteur de La Philosophie bantoue, livre largement discuté depuis 1945." La collection comprend la traduction française du livre en texte intégrale. Voir aussi, le site en anglais.

This site features an extensive digital library of texts selected and translated into Portuguese by a Brazilian businessman/scholar. The texts are by historic figures of African descent, reflecting their contributions to African cultural studies, pan-Africanism, and the liberation struggles of peoples of African descent. There are also selected works by Machado de Assis--the Brazilian literary icon and a library of selected Afro-Brazilian and African music files.

A web site celebrating African proverbs, featuring "African proverb of the month", "Weekly African proverbs", "African stories", bibliography, short list of book reviews, maps, and related links.

Un recueil des textes intégrals...surtout sur l'Islam et les Peuls: une collection des articles et des extraits de livres en français et en anglais, quelques textes en pulaar, les tables de matières, et des liens à plusieurs sites sur les Peuls dans la région du Sénégal, Mauritanie, Guinée, et les autres pays du Sahel.
Voir aussi Fuuta Jaloo (ci-dessus) ; webTooro ; et Jamtan Fulani (ci-dessus)

"...intends to act as a channel of expression for thinkers in Africa, and to stimulate philosophical discussion on problems that arise out of the radical transformations Africa and Africans are undergoing."

En 2007, cette publication remplacé la revue, CLIO en Afrique. "La collection présente les recherches de jeunes (ou de moins jeunes) chercheurs en Anthropologie et en Histoire de l'Afrique dans un souci de valorisation et de dissémination des connaissances en Sciences Humaines et Sociales sur l'Afrique dans une conjoncture plutôt difficile."

The site offers excerpted texts and color images from the Paris-based African arts and culture journal, a new Cyberjournal section, and information about subscriptions. [In French or English]

The website by this major European scholar whose fieldwork and publications span three decades on religion, social anthropology, history, and philosophy in and about Africa---esp. east-central and southern Africa.

A selection of links to web sites with data sets or other resources on the transatlantic slave trade.

"La SFHOM est une association qui réunit des universitaires, des érudits et des professionnels du monde de l'entreprise et de l'administration pour valoriser les recherches sur l'histoire des monde des outre-mers, depuis les découvertes et les explorations jusqu'aux mouvements de colonisation, puis jusqu'aux indépendances et à l'émergence des économies et sociétés nouvelles. Elle publie des études récentes mais aussi des textes anciens qui sont révélateurs des civilisations d'outre-mer de leur temps. Elle publie notamment deux fois par an Outre-Mers. Revue d’histoire." Télécharger les tables bibliographiques (1913-2003) en format PDF -et- voir le catalogue des publications en format HTML.

A directory portal with links to all major museums and cultural societies in South Africa.

SAHA was formed in 1988 by the United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions to collect & preserve documents from the struggle against apartheid during the 1980s. The SAHA website offers online finding aids to their collections, descriptions of archival projects, highlights from public exhibitions and related events, teacher and other educational resources, online publications (free downloads with registration), as well as several "virtual exhibiitions":

-- ECC: 25 Years Since the Launch of the End Conscription Campaign

-- Hear Our History: An Introduction to Learning and Teaching Oral History

-- UDF 25 Years: Commemorating Years Since the Founding of the United Democratic Front

SAHO offers online publications, photo and image exhibitions, brief historical summaries and biographies, and classroom suggestions (under construction). "SAHO is a peoples' history and internet-based project that consists of an open, non-partisan website linked to a schools' and community based outreach programme, which sets to build a comprehensive database on South African history and arts."Includes an extensive biographical archive on "People" in SA history and contemporary society.
--Plus: Football in South Africa -and- One City, Many Histories

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."

"South African Voices is a three-volume work that includes: A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry. This work consists of electronic audio files and transcribed written texts of oral traditions and histories, poetry, folktales, and stories in Xhosa, Zulu, and Siswati collected, transcribed, and edited by Professor Harold Scheub.

'The full text --without photos or illustrations-- of all articles published during the last eight years of the magazine - from July 1992 to October 2000. In addition, three indexes produced in 1996 — covering June 1985 to November 1995 - are available as a research tool.'

The archive of this once popular book review journal. See especially the SAROB anthologies, compiled by Robert Turrell. SAROB was a leading journal dealing with the cultural politics of Southern Africa, containing book reviews in the fields of literature and cultural studies, as well as essays, columns, and diaries.

"Offered here is an English translation of the Sudan portion of Theodoro Krump's book (Augsburg: Georg Schulter & Martin Happach, 1710). The present version is adapted with minor modifications from the Hambata edition of 1979, in turn derived from the copyrighted text of 1974."

The website of the print journal with tables of contents, index to articles, and selected online excerpts since 1990. "Sudanic Africa is an international academic journal devoted to the presentation and discussion of historical sources on the Sudanic belt, the area between the Sahara and the Bay of Niger, the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. The journal typically presents such sources in the original language and in translation, with comments."

Un portail pour les fideles: les actualités, quelques fichiers sonores et vidéos des événements, un résumé historique de la confrérie, une biographie de la vie de Sidi Ahmed Tidjani, et quelques profils de ses petits enfants en Algérie, au Maroc, et au Sénégal.

Un recueil des articles, des témoignages audios, des extraits vidéos, et des photos sur l'histoire des tirailleurs africains en Europe et dans l'empire colonial français...surtout ceux du Sénégal et du Mali.

An up-to-date directory of African museums, exhibitions, conferences and other events....part of a larger project on the visual arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia/Pacific.

"[Créé en novembre 1993]...LERHI est un centre de recherches historiques relevant de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Nouakchott." Ce site offert les informations sur le programme, l'équipe de recherche, les autres activités,. En plus, on peut lire les tables de matières et les résumés pour plusieurs numéros de leur revue, Masadir: cahier des sources de l'histoire de la Mauritanie.

An open access digital library of books, documents, maps, papers, and prints on Sudanese history and cultural anthropology.

A collection of full-text, online editions of books in African studies (usually without illustrations), including:
-- Adam, Heribert & Kobila Moodley. The opening of the apartheid mind.
-- Butler, Jeffrey et al. The black homelands of South Africa...
-- Crehan, Kate. The fractured community ... rural Zambia.
-- Clancy-Smith, Julia A. Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904).
-- Evans, Ivan T. Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa.
-- Fadiman, Jeffrey. When we began, there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya.
-- Grinker, Roy Richard. Houses in the rainforest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in central Africa.
-- Herbst, Jeffrey. The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991.
-- Launay, Robert G. Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town.
-- Leonard, David K. African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development.
-- Ntantala, Phyllis. A life's mosaic: the autobiography of ...
-- Sharp, Lesley. The possessed and the dispossessed ... Madagascar.
-- Schroeder, Richard A. Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in The Gambia.
-- Vail, Leroy. (ed.) The creation of tribalism in southern Africa.
-- Waltz, Susan E. Human rights and reform: changing the face of North African politics.
-- Widner, Jennifer A. The rise of a party-state in Kenya...
-- White, Luise. Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa.

"In 1936-37, Henry Usher Hall, Curator of General Ethnology, led the first Museum-sponsored expedition to sub-Saharan Africa. He spent seven months conducting ethnographic research among the Sherbro peoples of Sierra Leone." The web site features highlights from the photographs and other materials collected by Hall, accompanying texts, and links to related information on the history of Sierra Leone, to the    Africa Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and to the   University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives.

A downloadable -- with free registration -- archive of raw data and documentation on selected aspects of the history of the transatlantic slave trade. See especially: What DPLS and the Slave Movement Site Can and Cannot Do for You

The official web site --in English, French, and Portuguese-- for the archive of the famous French-born photographer Pierre Verger (1902-1996), who visually documented the peoples and cultures of West and Central Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas--especially Brazil--during the 20th century. The site includes an extensive online photographic collection, information about the foundation's cultural center in Salvador, and a bibliography on Verger's publications.

The site provides free access to selected data on thousands of slave ship voyages; plus scholarly essays and maps. "[The database] is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade..."

A catalog of West African Arabic manuscript collections from Kano--Nigeria at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), from Ségou (Mali) at La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), in Boutilimit and Nouakchott--Mauritania, Timbuctu--Mali, and Niamey--Niger. The database is searchable in English or in Arabic.

"Since 1982, help has been at hand through The West African Museums Programme (WAMP), a non-governmental organisation dedicated to helping West African museums become relevant and accessible and to raising the awareness of local people."

Remarque: la dernière mise à jour ont été fait en 2003. Le site offre une excellante introduction (avec beaucoup d'images, photos, cartes, et quelques fichiers sonores) pour les personnes qui s'intéressent à la culture des peuples du Nord-Ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire et la frontière du Libéria de l'Est. On peut lire une diverse sorte de choses à propos des masques et des autres arts, des croyances, et de l'histoire de la région. Il y a un rapport sur "l'invasion libérienne" en 2002-2003.De plus, il y a un petit leçon sur la langue Wé et plusieurs contes (en français). Voir surtout: la documentation.

Note: this is a commercial site. A photo databank in English or German: thousands of photographs on Africa, with viewing and downloading through registration and payment; plus related links.

This official site features general information for the visitor/researcher, with brief descriptions of the collections and a few photos.

A politics and culture blog site with a scholarly viewpoint, featuring "informed news and commentary on the Pan-African world."