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Ideas of Africa, Africans Abroad, & Writers as Public Intellectuals
General Internet Resources
Related Resources

• 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.
• African Biography on the Internet (Columbia University)
  
• African Literature on the Internet (Columbia University)
  
• 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 Traditional Religion (Chidi Denis Isizoh, Italy)
  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" (2005).
• Ancient Egypt on the Internet (Columbia University)
  
• The Bernal-Lefkowitz Debate Over the Origins of Ancient "Greek" Civilization and the Significance of Ancient Egypt
  • Afrocentricity and the Black Athena Debate--Archive, 2009 (Professor Wim van Binsbergen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; via ooCities.org)
  • Beyond the Bernal-Lefkowitz Debate: Ibrahim Sundiata on "Afrocentrism: the argument we're really having". In Dissonance: a journal of things that do not fit. September 30, 1996.
  • Excerpts from: Not out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz (From the original book published by BasicBooks, 1996; via "Points of View", The History Place)
• "The Black Presence in Antiquity: A Selected Bibliography". Compiled by Leida I. Torres and Andrea Only. (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Libraries, Washington, DC)
  A list of print publications available at Howard University.
• Cheikh Anta Diop, 1923-1986
  • Cheikh Anta Diop (Revue Ankh, Paris, France)
  • Cheikh Anta Diop, the pharaoh of knowledge (Momodou Camara, Nijii, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• G.I. Jones' Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture (via Southern Illinois University)
  "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."
• A Guide to African Studies Videos at Columbia University
  
• Maps of Africa (Columbia University)
  • A list of online maps and other Internet resources for African geography, plus a special bibliography on researching "Maps and Power in Modern African History".
    --See also:
    
  • Perry Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin: Maps of Africa
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Maps of Africa to 1900"
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -- African Art
  • Timeline of Art History: African Art
    These web pages offer very brief historical summaries, with a few images and maps. Topics include art of: Aksum, Benin, Egypt, Fulani/Fulbe, Great Zimbabwe, Ife, Igbo-Ukwu, Nok, Nubia, Mali and Songhai empires, Sudan, etc.
  • Ancient Egyptian Art -- Special Exhibitions and Web Resources
    
  • Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (Permanent Collection)
    This web site features thumbnail images of selected objects in the permanent collection and a general search tool.
• 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.
• PBS Online: Wonders of the African World, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • The web site that accompanies the television series -- a travel show, with brief history lessons and Gates' own personal views. The site includes teaching resources, background information, and brief supplementary texts, video files, and small photos. 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.
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art: "Ethiopian Icons: Faith and Science", January 31 - October 3, 2003 Exhibition (Washington, DC)
  The website includes Ethiopian Orthodox Christian icons from the 17th to the 19th centuries (and processional crosses), with a brief curator's introduction and a description of recent conservation efforts at the museum. See also, a short bibliography.
• 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
• Tierno Bokar -- U.S. Premiere, March 30 - April 26, 2005, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.
  • Tierno Bokar: Educational Resources (Columbia faculty and students only.)
• UNESCO--United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: World Heritage Centre
  • WH General Home Page
  • World Heritage Sites in Danger -- Africa
  • The World Heritage List: 2011 (General)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Maps of Africa to 1900 University Library, Library Digital Services and Development (Urbana, Illinois)
  A searchable digital map collection based on the bibliography Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (By Thomas J. Bassett & Yvette Scheven, Urbana: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2000).
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries: Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent (University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program and the Libraries, USA)
  Under construction: Downloadable 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. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations ... New links and search features will be included over the course of construction."

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• African Art & Archaeology (Columbia University)
  
  
• African Biography on the Internet (Columbia University)
  
  
• African Diaspora on the Internet (Columbia University)
  
  
• Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa (Columbia University)
  
  
• Films and Videos on Africa (Columbia University)
  
  
• General News, Sports, & Information Services on Africa (Columbia University)
  
  
• General Resources on Islam (Columbia University)
  
  
• "Using Google for African studies research: a guide to effective Web searching" Chapter 25 in
  The African studies companion. (Online) -- Lochcarron, Scotland, UK : Hans Zell, 2006--
  
  
• History & Cultures of Africa (Columbia University)
  
  
• How To Cite Internet Resources: Online Guides (Columbia University)
  
  
• Libraries and Bibliographic Resources on Africa (Columbia University)
  
  
• Music and Dance of Africa (Columbia University)
  
  
• Religion in Africa (Columbia University)
  

• Selected Reference Sources in Print at Columbia
• Courseworks
• African Studies Internet Resources

Compiled by Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University (caruso@columbia.edu)
for a Contemporary Civilization course at Columbia College.
Only Columbia students and faculty can view current visual hour materials in CourseWorks.