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Internet Resources for K-12 Teachers of Africa (2007)
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Produced for the African Studies Association's 2007 Teachers Workshop held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 19, 2007

Columbia University, Teachers College -- Center for African Education

• 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 Book Club (Olney, Maryland, USA)
  Founded in 2010, an international online newsletter, with book reviews and a forum about Africa's literary past, present, and future, Africans in the diaspora, and related issues; plus an online bookstore.
• 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)
  • African Studies Centre, Leiden University: Web Dossier on "Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century" (2002) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
• 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--
    The current issue is on offer, the "Archives" provides free access to the full text in PDF format of back issues since 2004.
• 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.
• "Global Studies in search of Africa" (2003) by Pearl T. Robinson. The Politics of Knowledge: Global 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 (ADEA) = 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..."
• 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, The 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).
• 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."
• 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 Africa: African Education Knowledge Warehouse (Dakar, Senegal; Johannesburg, South Africa)
  The website --in English or French-- 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 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 (2003) (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 provided 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: Centre for Educational Technology (Cape Town, South Africa)
  This site offers examples of projects and includes reports on technology and education in Africa--including African country reports on ICT & higher education; plus related web links.
• The World Bank: EdStats: Country Profiles (Washington, DC)
  This site provides statistical indicators on educational development by country (since 1990), with reports on education (primary, secondary, and tertiary) and links to other topics in international development.
• Coverdell World Wise Schools -- Africa Lesson Plans (Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools -- Educators; sponsored by United States Peace Corps, Washington, DC)
  

• The African Guide: African People and Culture (Nicole Smith & Albert Angel, USA)
  This searchable illustrated guide for those interested in traveling to Africa and background information on the cultures of Africa. The site provides a listing of current and upcoming festivals and other major cultural events across Africa, with links to web sites.
• Guide to African Women Cinema Studies (Dr. Beti Ellerson, Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema, Washington, DC)
  A teaching and learning guide, with a list of films and directors; plus, links to selected other film web sites.
• Afropop.org : Hip Deep Series (World Music Productions, New York)
  "...a media project dedicated to the idea that music is a key to understanding everything...Hip Deep has been created and maintained with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities...you can access the entire archive of Hip Deep radio programs, and read interviews and narratives...discographies, images, videos, and links to music and other resources."
• AFROPOP Worldwide Home Page (World Music Productions, New York; in partnership with ARTSEDGE, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC)
  "Afropop Worldwide is PRI Public Radio International's weekly series showcasing the contemporary musical cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe. Hosted by international broadcast personality Georges Collinet from Cameroon.." This site offers information about the radio program; Afropop-sponsored events and trips; and, general information about the music of Africa and the African diaspora.
• Art & Archæology of Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
  
• ArtsEdge on Africa (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC)
  This site offers links to a few selected recent programs on African arts (music, theatre, history, literature, and art); plus some teaching lesson ideas mostly for elementary schools.
• 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)
  

• 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 official website below.
• All Africa Foundation: "Sustainable Africa" Internet Channel (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  • A portal site for news stories and public domain documents relating to "sustainable development" issues in Africa: environment, trade, debt, population, water, climate change, forests, agriculture, etc.
  • Directory of organizations (International, regional, national, and community-based)
• 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, 2002-- (via The African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
• US Government Agencies on African Economic Development (via Columbia University Libraries)
  

• Action Bioscience: "Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa?" (May 2001) by Donald Johanson. (American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC)
• 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)
• A Day in the Life of Africa: one day in Africa as seen by 100 photographers (Olympus Corporation, Japan)
  Requires Adobe Flash Player or equivalent: The website features a gallery of photographs, the names of photographers, location of filming, recorded sounds of the the ocean, birds, people, traffic, and other human activities; plus, 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 years 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."
• 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.
• National Geographic. (Online): Views of Africa, September 2005
  -- Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society, 2005.
  A special issue focusing on African reports, in-depth reports, photographs, and Africa Map and Archive of selected articles from previous issues of this popular magazine.
• 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.")
• University of Texas at Austin: Africa Maps Perry Castañeda Map Collection (University of Texas Libraries, Austin, Texas)

• 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.
• "Africa: Peoples & Cultures": Undergraduate Course at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (Prof. Glenn Davis Stone, Department of Anthropology)
  This is the website for a college course taught since Fall 2003, including links to online resources.
• African Activist Archive Project (African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  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.quot;
• 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 Resource Page (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..." and Debates on Africa in History (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  Historical summaries by "Africa's top historians" on radio, with audio files from the original broadcasts of the BBC Africa Service aired during February-July 2001; plus related debates aired in early 2002.
• 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).
• 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 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 timeline
    The Nile Valley, Mali, and Ethiopia are major features; plus other themes.
  • Bibliography
  • Web links
• The South African History Archive (SAHA) (Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 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, several online publications, highlights from public exhibitions and related events, teacher and other educational resources, and virtual exhibitions.
  
  -- SAHA in the Classroom
  
  -- 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
• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database--Voyages Database (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
  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..."
• UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- History and World Heritage (Paris, France)
  • UNESCO General History of Africa Collection---All 8 volumes online
    An open access version of the landmark series is now available in English, Arabic, Swahili, Portuguese, Fulfulde, and Hausa.
  • UNESCO on the Slave Trade and Slavery
    • Slave voyages: The Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (2002): An educational resource for teachers. By Hilary McDonald Beckles. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2002. 272 pages in PDF format
      
    • The Slave Route -- Publications and Documentation
    • Sites liés à la traite négrière et à l'esclavage en Sénégambie: pour un tourisme de mémoire (2005) Par Mbaye Guèye. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2005. 85 pages en format PDF.
    • Tradition orale liée à la traite négrière et à l'esclavage en Afrique centrale (2003) sous la direction de Jérôme Tangu Kwenzi-Mikala. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2003. 109 pages en format PDF
    • Tradition orale et archives de la traite négrière (2001) sous la direction de Djibril Tamsir Niane. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2001. 143 pages en format PDF
    • 2004: Slavery Abolition Year -- International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
      -- See also: Struggles against slavery: International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (2004) Edited by Katérina Stenou. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2004. 24 pages in PDF format.
    • 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, une carte, un exemplaire d'un bulletin (PDF), et des liens choisis.
    • UNESCO 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.
    • 1001 Wonders Panophotographies
      • Egypt: Nubia, Luxor, Giza, and El Azher Mosque
      • Ethiopia: Aksum
      • Kenya: Lamu, Mombasa, and Turkana village
      • Tanzania: Kilwa Kisiwani and Zanzibar
      • Uganda: Kasubi Tombs
    • 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)
      - Dja Faunal Reserve, southeastern Cameroon
      - Djoudj--Parc national des oiseaux (Senegal)
      - Drakensberg Park, uKhahlamba (South Africa)
      - Egypt: Abu Mena, Thebes, Cairo, Memphis, Nubia, & St. Catherine Monastery
      - 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)
      - Kilwa Kisiwani Ruins and Songo Mnara (Tanzania)
      - 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)
      - Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests (Kenya)
      - Le Morne Cultural Landscape (Mauritius)
      - 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)
      - Tsodilo (Botswana)
      - Virunga National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
      - Zanzibar, Stone Town (Tanzania)
      -- The complete World Heritage Site List: 2011 (General)
      -- World Heritage paper series (Online), 2002 to present
      -- World Heritage newsletter = La Lettre du Patrimoine Mondial. (Online) -- Paris: UNESCO World Heritage, 1993-2005.
      All 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.
• 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

• African Language Resources (Columbia University Libraries)
• African Literature on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
• African Studies Association of the United States: Childrens' Africana Book Awards (via AfricaAccess.Com, Silver Spring, Maryland)
  Since 1991, the Outreach Council of the ASA annually honors outstanding authors and illustrators of children's books about Africa published in the United States.
• African Writers Series -- Heinemann (Pearson Education, Harlow, Essex,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.
• Culture & Literature of 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."

***For full list of sources see: News (General, Business, Sports) & Information Services on Africa

• A24 Media: Africa's voice (A24 Media Productions, Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; Johannesburg, South Africa)
  "A24 Media--the first Pan-African online agency for Video, Pictures & Text." This site includes: selected current and recent news reports; photographs; related video clips; previews of television programs from Africa; documentary film excerpts; news, film, and TV industry links; etc.
• ADNA: Advocacy Network for Africa Forum (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 Forum is a progressive non-partisan network of 245 US-based organizations - and growing."
  • ADNA Forum 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: 1998-99 | 2000-2009 | 2010
  • Peace & Justice in Darfur & All Sudan -and- Campaign on Darfur (Washington, DC)
  • Campaign to End HIV/AIDS in Africa
  • Cancel Africa's Debt
  • Conflict minerals
  • All reports, 2001 to present
• 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 & resources
• AfricaFiles (Toronto, Canada)
  • A human rights news and resources web site for teachers, students, journalists, and activists. The site compiles selected articles from "African and alternative sources."
  • For educational resources: AfricaProbe (Justice, Global & Ecumenical Relations Unit of The United Church of Canada, The United Church of Canada Foundation, & AfricaFiles)
  • Southern Africa Report. (Online)--Index to Table of Contents (1985-2000) and Full Text (1992-2000): originally published by the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC)
  • AfricaFiles original news analysis: At Issue: Ezine. (Online) -- Toronto, Canada: AfricaFiles, 2005-
• AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
  The website features AfricaFocus bulletin...offering analysis and "progressive advocacy" on African issues; plus news feeds from BBC and AllAfrica.Com.
• "Africa Today" KPFA Radio Program (Prof. Walter Turner, WKPFA FM, KPFA.org, Berkeley, California)
  Podcasts of past programs and related information. "A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora."
• 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 AU 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)
    Current issue and archive of back issues since 1995 in PDF format
  • Resources on Uganda, the LRA, and Central Africa (April 2012)
• "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.
  • 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 articles from back issues.
  • BBC World Service--Africa Today
    This site offers schedules of programs in various languages, plus some audio files (requiring RealPlayer).
• 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.
• Darfur Crisis -- Resources (via Columbia University Libraries)
  See also: University of California's "Understanding Sudan: A Teaching and Learning Resource" (Berkeley, California): an extensive list of links and fact sheets for teacher and classroom use.
• Electronic Newspapers of Africa (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
• Enough Project: The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity (Center for American Progress, Washington, DC)
  This website features current news, editorials, policy arguments, and campaign information by an advocacy group in Washington, DC...which focuses on US foreign policy towards "conflict areas" in Africa, especially Darfur and Southern Sudan, Eastern Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Northern Uganda, Chad, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.--See especially: Enough Project publications
• Foreign Policy in Focus -- A Think Tank Without Walls (Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC ; Interhemispheric Resource Center, Silver City & Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  • FPIF publishes current policy analysis reports and "progressive" editorials on a variety of US foreign policy issues....many deal with US policy towards Africa.
  • Africa Regional Focus, 1997 to present
  • Africa Policy Outlook, January 22, 2010
  • Africa Policy Outlook, 2009
  • Africa Policy Outlook 2006 (March 2006)...by Salih Booker & Ann-Louise Colgan.
• France. Ministère des Affaires étrangères: Dossiers et textes récents sur les relations franco-africaines (Paris)
• G8 Summits on the Internet
  • G8 Information Centre (Munk Centre for International Studies at Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada)
• Human Rights and Governance in Africa (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
• Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) for Africa (English) or in French (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland)
  Daily and weekly bulletins for regions and individual countries. The "country archive" contains reports since 1999, depending on the country.
  --  IRIN on East Africa
  --  IRIN on Great Lakes and Central Africa
  --  IRIN on the Horn of Africa
  --  IRIN on Southern Africa
  --  IRIN on West Africa
• International Relations Center (Silver City & Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)
  • Formerly the Interhemispheric Resource Center:
    "Founded in 1979, the IRC is a nonprofit organization supported by foundations, churches, and individual donations. ... to provide information and analysis that increase social and economic justice throughout the world. ... the IRC promotes grassroots involvement to ensure the United States becomes a responsible global leader and partner."
• International Network for Higher Education in Africa (Center for International Education, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts)
  • "...an information clearingshouse for institutions and individuals engaged in research, development, and advocacy activities related to postsecondary education in Africa."
  • Conferences and workshops
  • Publications: a bibliography of works published on African higher education, plus unpublished doctoral dissertations.
• The Africa Society of The National Summit on Africa, 1998-2000 -- With Updates to the Present
  • A series of regional summits on US policies towards Africa, culminating in a national convention in Washington, DC, held in February 2000. "The National Summit on Africa is a two-year initiative aimed at improving levels of public understanding about Africa and U.S.-Africa relations; creating an expanded and broad-based constituency for Africa; enabling a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals to develop a shared Agenda for Action for U.S. relations with the countries of Africa."
  • National Summit on Africa Home Page
  • Resources: "National Summit on Africa's National Policy Plan of Action for U.S.-Africa Relations in the 21st Century" (May 1, 2000) and other documents (downloadable in PDF)
  • Latest news
• openDemocracy on "Africa & Democracy": news analysis (London, UK)
  News analysis blog on African affairs from scholars and writers in the US, Europe, and Africa.
• Social Science Research Council on Africa (New York)
  • African Arguments SSRC Blog
  • Search for Africa at the SSRC
  • SSRC Programs on Africa, 2009-
  • Crisis in the Horn of Africa
    SSRC news analysis forum on Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan.
    -- See also, Making Sense of Darfur SSRC Blog by Alex de Waal et al.
• TransAfrica: Justice for the African World (Washington, DC)
  • Formerly known as TransAfrica Forum: A foreign policy research and lobby organization, with a focus on Africa and the African diaspora.
  • Africa Now! (radio program)
  • Opinions and news coverage
  • Events
• United Kingdom. Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Africa (London)
• University of California: Understanding the Human Catastrophe in Darfur (2009) Understanding Sudan, A Teaching and Learning Resource. (Berkeley, California)
• VoxAfrica (London, UK)
  • The multi-media web site of a satellite television channel which offers African and African diaspora news, interviews, in-depth panel discussions, and reports...in English or French.
    See especially:
  • Shoot the Messenger: politics, culture, society
  • Wahala: music
  • Afrobuzz: cinema
• Washington Post.Com:  African Lives -- Occasional Articles from 1997 (The Washington Post, Washington, DC)
  A series of electronic newspaper articles, with photos, which "chronicle the joys and struggles in the everyday lives of African peoples." There are 8 stories on: Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sénégal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana.

• UNESCO General Home Page in English or in French
  
• BREDA: Bureau régional de l'UNESCO pour l'éducation en Afrique (UNESCO, Dakar, Sénégal)
  A ce site, on peut lire les actualités sur la planification et le développement de l'éducation en Afrique au Sud du Sahara. Le BREDA aussi assume le rôle de représentation de l'Unesco auprè de six pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: le Cap Vert, la Gambie, la Guinée-Bissau, le Liberia, le Sénégal et la Sierra Leone.
• International Bureau of Education (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Country Dossiers (Reports and statistics)
  • International Clearinghouse on HIV/AIDS Education
    This website (launched in 2002) includes current HIV/AIDS news reports, "country watch" reports -- including  South Africa, selected country profiles, brief reports on national curriculum policies and practices in primary and secondary schools worldwide, and related links for health educators and community development activists.
  • World Data on Education (2006)
    A searchable (by country) database of UNESCO annual reports on national education systems, 1998-2004---plus updates; including recent conference papers.
• World Education Forum: "Education For All" (EFA)
  • EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: Regional Overview for Sub-Saharan Africa -and- Fact Sheet
    --See also: Full report
    
  • Education for All, Regional Forum for Sub-Saharan Africa (2004)
  • Meeting of the EFA Partners Follow-Up, 5 May 2001, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • Forum Mondial de l'Education, 26-28 avril 2000, Dakar, Sénégal
    A conference whose objective was to set international goals of "Education for All". This archived site is in French only.
• UNESCO World Heritage Sites (See above under "History...")

• US Agency for International Development (USAID) (Washington, DC)
  • USAID on Africa (Selected by Columbia University Libraries.)
    
  • USAID in Africa: Basic Education
    
  • FEWS--Famine Early Warning System
    "At the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS), we watch weather and farming land in Africa for signs of drought, which could lead to famine and starvation. When we see signs that populations will face severe food shortages, we issue a warning to make sure that steps will be taken to keep people from going hungry. These warnings are taken into account in planning U.S. assistance to Africa."
• US Department of Commerce (Washington, DC)
  • AGOA--African Growth and Opportunity Act Website, 2010-
    This site includes links to documents and current news relating to U.S. trade and investment issues on Sub-Saharan Africa.
    -- See also: AGOA Website, 2001-2009
  • 9th AGOA Forum, 2-6 August 2010, Washington, DC and Kansas City, Missouri
  • 8th AGOA Forum, 4-6 August 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
  • International Trade Administration: US-African Trade Profile 2009 17 pages in PDF format (via AGOA.Gov)
  • See also: Tralac--Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa: AGOA.info (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
    A commercial and investment news portal for information relating to US--Africa trade and the "African Growth and Opportunity Act". The site includes statistical summaries in the country "trade profiles".
• US Congress (Washington, DC)
  • US House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa...
  • US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations--Subcommittee on African Affairs
    -- Chairman: U.S. Senator Chirstopher Coons
  • Public Law No. 106-200 "Trade and Development Act of 2000" (Originally H.R. 434 and related bills): United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act and the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
    (via THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet, The Library of Congress)
• US Department of State. (Washington, DC)
  • Bureau of African Affairs, 2009-
  • Country Information for Africa
    Press releases, embassy information, and links to reports.
  • Archive for Bureau of African Affairs: includes Bush and Clinton Administrations. (via Columbia University Libraries)
    
  • US International Information Programs
    • America.Gov on Africa---News
• US Executive Branch -- The White House: Foreign Policy, 2009- (Washington, DC)
  These web pages offer current news, press releases, and links to documents relating to African policy initiatives of the US President, in addition to the activities of the US State Department.
  --President Obama in Ghana, July 10-11, 2009 (via America.gov)
• For more about US government & non-governmental organizations on Africa, see:  "US Organizations on Africa" (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries.)