- The Abolition of the Slave Trade The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -- The New York Public Library (New York)
"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."
- ABORNE--African Borderland Research Network European Science Foundation (via Edinburgh, UK)
- Groupe de Recherche ACHAC: Diasporas en France -et- Immigration des Suds (Paris, France)
"Depuis 1989, le Groupe de recherche Achac travaille sur plusieurs champs liés à la question coloniale et postcoloniale (idéologies politiques de la colonisation, développement des cultures coloniales et postcoloniales ; zoos humains et spectacles ethniques, représentations de l’altérité ; histoire militaire et troupes coloniales), mais aussi à l’histoire des immigrations des suds à travers différents programmes."
- #ADPHD--African Diaspora, Ph.D. Blog (Prof. Jessica Marie Johnson et al., Center for Africana Studies and the Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland)
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and African Studies Program, Madison, Wisconsin)
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."
- The Africa I Know (2023) (USA)
"Our mission is to leverage media and education--two powerful tools for narrative change, capacity building, and empowerment--to inspire, inform, and educate young Africans."
--See especially:
Articles and
Features
- Africa in the Photobook (Ben Krewinkel, Haarlem, the Netherlands)
[Initiated in 2015]...a digital library of photobooks on colonial and post-colonial Africa. "The website is about the changing visual representation of Africa as expressed through the medium of the photobook."
- Africa is a Country (Prof. Sean Jacobs et al., New York; Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya)
"Founded in 2009, a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing." 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.
--See also:
AIAC Talk, a weekly discussion, via YouTube.com
- Africa Review of Books = Revue africaine des livres. (Online) -- Oran, Algeria: Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, 2004-
"Its objective is to introduce the books published by young authors to a wide audience...It also aims to drive out the Afro-pessimism wave that has begun to prevail in some Western circles."
-- See also: Dakar-based
CODESRIA site
- Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, 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.
- H-Africa Discussion Forum, 2000-2002 (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University: Web Dossier on "Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century" (2002) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- "Africa's Great Civilizations"-- PBS Television Series (New York)
The site features flim clips, text summaries, related information about this television documentary series. "In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history..."
--See also:
Lesson Plan Ideas for Teachers (PBS LearningMedia)
- 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 interviews with African studies scholars across the disciplines based at or visiting the university. Conversations are recorded in downloadable formats---MP3s, iTUNES, Podcast.
- 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."
- African Archaeology -- WWW Virtual Library (2022) (Bernard-Olivier Clist, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)
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.
- AfricanCulture.dk (Momodou Camara, Nijii, Copenhagen, Denmark)
An African culture news blog, with related web links and information on Africa-related cultural events and programs in Denmark.
- The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World (2011) (Dr. Sylvianne Diouf et al., Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/The New York Public Library, New York)
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."
- African Economic History Network
"Founded in 2011, the network is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching amongst scholars studying the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa, from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial era.
Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden."
--See especially:
AEHN Blog ;
AEHN Working Papers ;
AEHN Data & Research ; and,
AEHN Workshops
- African Diaspora Studies (Compiled by Dr. Yuusuf S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University.)
- African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems (2013) (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.
- African journal of history and culture. (Online). -- Lagos, Nigeria: Academic Journals, 2009-
"...a peer reviewed open access journal, published monthly and covers all areas of the subject." The editors of AJHC are based in the United States.
- African Language Resources on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
- African Literature on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
- 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 Photography Basel Ethnographic Museum. (Erin Haney & Jürg Schneider, Basel, Switzerland)
"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.
- African Studies Association of the United States (Piscataway, New Jersey)
Highlights from: 61st ASA Annual Meeting, November 29-December 1, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia:
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-- 2018 Presidential Address -- "#HerskovitsMustFall? A Meditation on Whiteness, African Studies, and the Unfinished Business of 1968," by Prof. Jean Allman, November 30, 2018.
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"Ruptures: African Studies and the Racial Politics of Knowledge Production, 1968-1998." ASA Board-Sponsored Panel, December 1, 2018.
-- "Futures: African Studies and the Racial Politics of Knowledge Production, 1998-2028." ASA Board-Sponsored Panel, December 1, 2018.
- African Studies Collection -- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (Madison, Wisconsin)
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)
- African Studies in the Post-Colonial University. (2012) Edited by Thandabantu Nhlapo & Harry Garuba.
-- Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town, 2012. 53 pages in PDF format.
- African Traditional Religion and Christianity (Rev. Dr. Chidi Denis Isizoh, Onitsha, Nigeria)
- African Union--Selected Historical Documents (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
- Africana Library Catalogs and Archives (via Columbia University Libraries)
- Africapolis: Visualise Urbanisation in Africa (Paris, France)
Produced by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club, Africapolis.org is the only comprehensive and standardised geospatial database on cities and urbanisation dynamics in Africa...Africapolis data is based on a large inventory of housing and population censuses, electoral registers and other official population sources, in some cases dating back to the beginning of the 20th century."
- Africultures: le site des cultures africaines (Olivier Barlet, Editions Harmattan, France)
- Chaque mois, ce site offre un agenda et des informations actualisées au jour le jour - y compris les festivals de cinéma, les concerts, les expositions, etc. Aussi, on peut regarder aux tables des matières de la revue et les textes intérales des vieux numéros sélectionnés.
- Afrilivres -- livres d'Afrique et des diasporas (Paris, France)
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 >>.
- Afriprov.org: African proverbs, sayings and stories (See Proverbs below)
- Afriques : débats, méthodes et terrains d'histoire. (Online) -- Paris: Centre d'études des mondes africains, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2010-
"...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."
- Afrocentricity and the Black Athena Debate--Archive, 2009 (Professor Wim van Binsbergen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; via ooCities.com)
A collection of articles in English and French on the issues surrounding Martin Bernal's multi-volume work-in-progress, "Black Athena".
- Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain, Durham, North Carolina)
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."
- Jacob Festus Ade Ajayi, 1929-2014
- Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. (1991) -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Plain text in HTML format. (via Livingston Public Schools, New Jersey)
--See also:
- Return our Obelisk!: The campaign for the return of the Aksum obelisk from Italy to Ethiopia, 1996-2008 -and- 2017
- Ezega.com: "Aksum Obelisk to get renovated with 2 million euros," May 16, 2017 (Addis Ababa)
- BBC Online News: "Ethiopia unveils ancient obelisk" (September 4, 2008) ; --"Obelisk arrives back in Ethiopia (May 28, 2002--April 25, 2005) ; --"New snag slows obelisk's return" (Feb. 12, 2004) ; --"Ethiopia keenly awaits obelisk's return" (Feb. 9, 2004) ; --"Rome obelisk set for African return" (Nov 8, 2003) ; and --"Rome obelisk prepares for journey home" (Oct 10, 2003) (London, UK)
- "Revisiting The 1958 All African Peoples' Conference -- The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation," December 5-8, 2018, University of Ghana, Legon--Conference Programme. Institute of African Studies.
--See also: Abstracts -and- Conference Report
- Aluka -- The Struggle for Freedom in Southern Africa ; African Cultural Sites and Landscapes ; and African Plants (Ithaka, New York, New York and Princeton, New Jersey)
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.
- American Geographical Society Library--Digital Photo Archive: Africa (University of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
"A selection of images from the extensive photographic holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. Images are drawn from several collections, including Richard U. Light and Mary (Light) Meader Collection, the Harrison Forman collection, and the Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection."
- 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."
- Les Amis de la Paléontologie au Tchad (AMPAT): Tchad, berceau de l'humanité? (Ndjamena, Tchad)
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.
- Ancient Egypt on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
- Ancient Nubia
- "Ancient Nubia Now," October 13, 2019--January 20, 2020, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
"...showcases the strength of the MFA’s collection, with hundreds of objects on view, some for the first time. Highlights include the exquisite jewels of Nubia’s queens, an army of funerary figurines, gold and silver treasure, and a stele bearing the longest known inscription in the still untranslated Meroitic language and script. The exhibition also brings new insights and voices. Throughout the galleries, video interviews with a biological anthropologist, an Egyptologist, a young Sudanese American, a photographer, and a professor connect the objects on view to pertinent themes such as power, self-representation, and cultural appropriation."
- International Society for Nubian Studies (Warsaw, Poland)
"Founded in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland, The International Society for Nubian Studies provides a focus for those interested in the archaeology and history of Nubia and Sudan, and seeks to promote awareness of the rich cultural heritage of this region."
--See especially:
Blogs and
Links
- 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies, August/September 2022, Warsaw, Poland
- Musée du Louvre, Paris: Le souvenir de Meroe (2022)
- The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago: The Robert F. Picken Family Nubian Gallery
--See also: Nubia Salvage Project in 1987 and in 1992
- "Angola on the Move: Transport Routes, Communications, and History," International Symposium, 24-26 September 2003, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany
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.
- Animated Atlas of African History, 1879-2002 (Prof. Nancy Jacobs et al., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)
"...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.
- ANKH: Les Civilisations africaines et l'Egyptologie (Paris, France)
- Anthropology Back Door to the Web: L'Afrique centrale (Dr. Bernard Clist, Grasse, France)
- Anti-Apartheid Movement: Forward to Freedom--The History of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959-1994 (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK)
A companion web site to the AAM archival collection held by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring excerpts in text, image, and video formats. "...tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. The AAM also campaigned for freedom for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola, and against South Africa’s attacks on its neighbours."
- AOF, réalités et héritages: sociétés ouest-africaines et ordre colonial, 1895-1960. Sous la direction de Charles Becker, Saliou Mbaye, Ibrahima Thioub. (Dakar : Direction des Archives du Sénégal, 1997). --via Researchgate.net; 1285 pages en format PDF.
- West African Arabic Manuscript Database (See below "West African...")
- "Arabic Script Manuscripts in Africa," 12-16 September 2021, Remotely over Zoom, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (Co-sponsored by The Islamic Manuscripts Association, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation)
This site --available in Arabic, English, and French-- includes the
full programme -and- video recordings, with English interpretation, of all the presentations!
- The Archival Platform (via Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa)
"...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
- Archives Hub: a national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges (University of Manchester, UK)
- Archives Nationales du Sénégal--Contact Information (Dakar, Sénégal)
- "Area studies in search of Africa" (2003) by Pearl T. Robinson. The Politics of Knowledge: Area 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.
- ARISA: Annual review of Islam in South Africa. (Online) -- Archive -- Cape Town: Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, 1998-2005.
- Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique (Maputo, Mozambique)
- Art and Archæology of Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
- Association des Historiens Maliens--ASHIMA (2001) (Bamako, Mali)
- Association pour la Connaissance l'Etude et la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (1998) (Université Paris VIII, France; via Internet Archive WayBackMachine)
- Volume and Direction of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1650-1870s -and- African Population Data, 1850-1960
CHIA--Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, Emeritus, at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)Data sets and related information from Prof. Manning's research on the transatlantic slave trade.
- "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.
- BBC--British Broadcasting Corporation on African History & Culture (London, UK)
- Royaume Bamoun (Cameroun; via BN-iCOM, Biangue Networks, Germany)
Veuillez voir aussi:
Ngouon.com -- "les grandes journées traditionnelles et culturelles du peuple Bamoun."
- BantuFirst (University of Ghent, Belgium)
The site features general information on the research project (2018-2022) and on related publications. "...a cross-disciplinary research project aiming at transforming our thinking on the Bantu Expansion by collecting new empirical evidence to gain a better understanding of the interconnections between human migration, language spread, climate change and early farming in Late Holocene Central Africa."
- Benin Kingdom (via "Art & Archaeology of Africa", Columbia University Libraries, New York)
- The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving (2010). (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
"...a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times."
- La Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)
- Ecritures africaines en bref
Sur ce site, on peut lire des dossiers pédagogiques, illustrés de dessins, d'images et de photos, en ce qui concerne les écritures en Afrique. Cette sélection est une partie d'une exposition qui s'est tenue à la BNF en 1998.
- 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
- Colloque << Bibliothèques nationales en Afrique Francophone au 21ème siècle >> du 5 a 7 mai 2003, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal. (Ecole des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
- Black Arts Research Center (Nyack, New York)
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."
- Black Monuments Matter Exhibition, October 2020-March 2021: A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture
Presented by: Zamani Project - University of Cape Town, South Africa ; Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations - Aga Khan University, London, UK
- BlackPast.org (Prof. Quintard Taylor et al., University of Washington, Seattle)
'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.
- "The Black Presence in Antiquity: A Selected Bibliography". (2015) 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.
- Albert Adu Boahen, 1932-2006
- "End of an era, Professor Boahen travels home" (May 29, 2006) Accra daily mail. (Online) -- Accra, Ghana: Accra Daily Mail, 2005-
- "In Memoriam: An appreciation of Professor A. Adu Boahen (1932-2006)" by Kwabena Akurang-Parry, Shippensburg University. Posted May 31, 2006. (H-West Africa Discussion Network, H-Net Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- "Tribute to Prof. Albert Kwadwo Adu Boahen" by Kwame Donkoh Fordwor. (June 6, 2006) GhanaHomePage (Francis Kojo Awuku Akoto, Finland; Rob Bellaart, GhanaWeb.Com, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Botswana History Resources (University of Botswana, Department of History, Gaborone)
"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."
- British Broadcasting Service: "The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time..." (London)
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.
- The British Museum: Endangered Material Knowledge Programme in Africa (London, UK)
[Since 2019] "EMKP supports knowledge holders, practitioners, and scholars with grants to conduct new research on critically threatened material knowledge globally, especially in understudied areas and where local funding opportunities are limited. EMKP also helps to connect source communities with museum objects stewarded around the world, and provides access to their material knowledge in a digital repository dedicated to its preservation."
--See also:
The British Museum--Africa Collections
- BUALA (Buala Cultural Association, Lisbon, Portugal)
"This is the first multidisciplinary portal dedicated to the critique, record and reflection on contemporary African cultures expressed
in Portuguese language, producing texts and offering French and English translations."
--See especially:
Mukanda: African authors, fiction, manifests, papers;
Afroscreen: African cinema and multimedia ; and,
I'll Visit: cultural events.
- Cambridge University, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities: "18th Century Africa", Online Conference, June 10-11 and June 17-18, 2021. (Cambridge, UK) Registration required
- Casa África (Goberno de España, Madrid, Spain)
- "...es un instrumento de diplomacia pública al servicio de la acción exterior del Estado...El otro gran objetivo de Casa África es trabajar cerca de las instituciones y sociedades africanas para conocer sus intereses y prioridades, contribuyendo a identificar a sus potenciales contrapartes y promover el contacto."
Ver sobre todo:
- Actualidad
- Publicaciones
- Quién es Quién en África
- Casa das Áfricas (São Paulo, Brazil)
- Centre Aequatoria: Centre de Recherches Culturelles Africanistes (Brussels, Belgium; Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo)
- "...est spécialisé dans l'étude des langues, des cultures et de l'histoire (pre-coloniale et coloniale) de l'Afrique sub-saharienne. Il regroupe une bibliothèque, des archives et un guesthouse [à Bamanya, 10 km de Mbandaka]."
- Publications, 1937-2009: index et les textes intégraux
- Voir aussi: Placide Tempels
- CELHTO-UA: Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale de l'Union africaine (Niamey, Niger)
"...en 1974, le CRDTO de Niamey (Centre de Recherche et de Documentation pour la Tradition Orale) fût intégré dans l’organigramme de l’Organisation de l’Unité Africaine sous le nom de Centre d’Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (CELHTO)."
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Textes de reference (Accès gratuit)
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Publications en ligne (Pour ces publications, il faut s'abonner au service Scribd).
- Centre d'études des mondes africains, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris I (France)"...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.
- Centre d'études des mondes africains: Yves Person historien: son oeuvre sur l'Afrique et la Bretagne (Dr. Charles Becker, Marina Lafay, et allii, via Hypotheses.org, Paris, France)
Le
blog comprend une bibliographie de l'oeuvre de Person, des liens à un recueil de textes choisis d'Yves Person qui sont disponible en ligne, un inventaire du fond d'archives Person, et l'information sur un colloque international en juin 2013. "Le carnet vise à promouvoir l’oeuvre de l'historien français Yves Person, d'en rappeler les apports et de communiquer en amont et en aval du colloque 'Yves Person (1925-1982', un historien de l’Afrique” qui aura lieu les 20 et 21 juin 2013 au CEMAf..."
--Veuillez voir
le programme du colloque international
- Centre de Recherche Cultures, Santé, Sociétés (Aix-en-Provence, France)
- "L'équipe s'intéresse aux recherches sur l'interface entre biologie et culture, et plus précisément sur les questions relevant de la santé, de la maladie et de son traitement."
- Lettre du CRECSS, La. (Online). Bulletin d'information bimestriel. -- Aix-en-Provence, France: CRECSS, 2005-2010.
- Publications du CRECSS
- Chimurenga Chronic Now-now, a quarterly pan African gazette -- Cape Town, South Africa: Chimurenga, 2013.
A monthly gazette available online or in print featuring news and commentaries on African culture and politics.
- China and Africa -- History
- Current China-Africa Relations (Columbia University Libraries, New York, USA)
- Gavin Menzies' 1421 Project and his critics
- China Global Television Network: Faces of Africa, 2012-2016 ---via YouTube.com (Beijing)
"Faces of Africa, documentaries on people in Africa, either prominent or ordinary, [past and present], who have great stories to tell about Africa."
- CODESRIA--Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire (London, UK)
--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."
- Cooking Recipes from Africa on the Internet (Columbia University)
- The Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: A Critical Oral History Conference, September 23-24, 2004 (History & Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC)
Transcript of the proceedings, 208 pages in PDF format
--See also: History through Documents and Memory: A CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference of the Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: a summary of the conference by Lisa Namikas (December 18, 2004)
- Côte d'Ivoire: Archives coloniales d'Abidjan, Série EE: Affaires politiques (Vincent Hiribarren, King's College, London et Jean-Pierre Bat, Archives nationales de France, Paris)
"Ce site est dédié aux archives coloniales de Côte d’Ivoire conservées à Abidjan aux Archives nationales de Côte d’Ivoire. Il est plus spécifiquement consacré à la série EE, c’est-à-dire au service des Affaires politiques du gouvernement colonial de Côte d’Ivoire."
- Cultural Survival Quarterly on The Djenne Project, Mali, 2001-2004 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- A series of news summaries on the threat to the historic sites of Djenné from a dam project on the Bani River, a tributary of the Niger River.
- Issue nos. 25.1 | 25.2 | 27.3 | 28.1 | 28.3
- Cultures sud. (Online): la revue en ligne des littératures du sud.-- Paris : Culturesfrance, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes et du Ministère de la Culture en partenariat avec le Réseau culturel français à l'étranger, 1999-2009. --via Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- Anciennement "Notre librarie" [A l'origine, établie en 1969.] Ce site comprend les derniers articles de la revue et un répertoire des auteurs, des sites sur Internet, et des notes de lecture. "...c'est une revue de référence, d'actualité et de critique sur les littératures d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et de l'océan Indien."
- Dans les archives: << 1250 nouveaux titres de littérature d'Afrique noire -- 1997/2001 >> Notre librairie. (Online); no. 147, janvier-mars 2002. Format PDF (134 p.) --via Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- Basil Davidson, 1914-2010
- The Guardian (Online): "Basil Davidson obituary: radical journalist and historian who charted the death throes of colonialism in Africa," by Victoria Brittain, July 9, 2010 (London, UK)
- Institute of Race Relations: "Basil Davidson 1914-2010," by A. Sivanandan (London, UK)
- London Review of Books Blog: "On Basil Davidson," by Jeremy Harding, July 14, 2010 (London, UK)
- Pambazuka news. (Online): "Basil Davidson, Africa thanks you," by Cameron Duodu, July 22, 2010 (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Cheikh Anta Diop
- Cheikh Anta Diop (Revue Ankh, Paris, France)
- Cheikh Anta Diop, the pharaoh of knowledge (Momodou Camara, Nijii, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- "Cheikh Anta Diop, restaurateur de la conscience noire" (janvier 1998). Fabrice Hervieu Wané, Le monde diplomatique. (Online), janvier 1998. (Paris, France)
- L'Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (Porto-Novo, République du Bénin)
"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.
- Emory University : Slave Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (See below)
- Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
"We are building a robust, open-source architecture to discover, connect, and visualize [more than] 600,000 people records and 5 million data points...Explore the data and life stories on Enslaved.org and read articles on data-driven research about the lives of the enslaved in the
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation."
- Equiano's World: Gustavus Vassa and the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Prof. Paul Lovejoy and others, York University, Toronto, Canada)
"This project on Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) focuses on the movement to abolish the trans-Atlantic slave trade and ultimately to emancipate the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved...This website is divided into different sections that establish the context in which Vassa lived, explore the places where he traveled, and the people whom he knew..Studying Equiano provides access to primary documents, published scholarly analysis and web links relevant to the times and places of Vassa's life."
- Eritrean Print and Oral Culture (Lwam Ghebrehariat & Joyce Tam, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
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 Comité pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (Paris, France)
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. >>
- Ethnologue Country Index -- Africa (From Ethnologue (Online), SIL International, Dallas, Texas, 1999-)
For each country in Africa, there is a listing and description of languages, and a map of languages.
- Etonnants Voyageurs, Festival International du Livre et du Film, du 22 au 28 novembre 2010, Bamako, Mali (Saint-Malo, France)
- 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.
- Exploring Africa (2018) (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
Lesson plans and basic information for teaching the history, politics, arts, and cultures of Africa in the US. The site includes current news, brief "country overviews", "special topics" on contemporary Africa, regional approaches, and ten country case studies: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. "...produced and developed...in an effort to address the severe shortage of high quality African resources available to students and educators, particularly at the K-12 level."
***Note: Most of the content appears to be for high school students and teachers, but specific grade levels are not indicated in any of the lesson plans and could be used for undergraduate college courses.
- FESTAC: The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture: A Partial Documentation. (Abdul Alkalimat, Urbana, Illinois, USA)
This website is a digital collection of official documents handed to participants, some of the papers presented, video documentaries, and articles written about FESTAC 1977, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Festival international de géographie de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France (L'Académie de Reims, Reims, France)
Voir surtout << Les Actes du FIG >> pour trouver les copies des présentations prononcées aux colloques...un certain nombre porte sur l'Afrique.
- Films and Videos on Africa
- France. Assemblée Nationale: Reconnaissance de l'esclavage comme crime contre l'humanité (Loi no. 2001-434 du 21 mai 2001) (Paris)
- The French African Connection: Background Information on a three-part "Special Series" video from Al-Jazeera.Com (Doha, Qatar)
Historical overview and analysis of post-colonial French-African relations, with documentary film clips and interviews.
- FrontAfrique Agence Nationale de la Recherche Frontafrique (Paris, France)
- Fula Language on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries, New York, USA)
- Gefame: journal of African studies. (Online)--Archive -- Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2004-2011.
This title appears to have ceased in 2011. "...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..."
- German Colonial History -- Digital Archives for African Studies
- Ghana Studies Association (Accra, Ghana; Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
- "[Originally founded as Akan Studies Council in 1988, later known as Ghana Studies Council]...a multidisciplinary organization of scholars based in Africa, North America, Europe and Asia whose research focuses on the the West African state of Ghana."
- Ghana studies: Subscription information and the table of contents of the peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the GSA.
- Gnawa Stories: Mystical Musician Healers from Morocco (Rodrigo Dorfman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
A Masters' thesis project on the history and cultural traditions of the Gnawa, with maps and suggested readings in print and on the web.
- The Gold Road (Africa Access and the Center for African Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC)
"This interactive website provides information about the role that gold and other trade items played in the development of the medieval West African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai."
- L'île de Gorée -- Visite Virtuelle--Archive (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- Bureau régional pour l'éducation en Afrique, Dakar, Sénégal)
- H-AfrArts Web Page (H-Net--Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Arts Council of the African Studies Association of the United States)
H-AfrArts is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on the expressive arts of Africa and the African diaspora.
- H-Africa Web Page (H-Net--Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
H-Africa is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on historical and cultural studies of Africa.
- H-AfrLitCine Web Page. (Humanities-Net; via Michigan State University)
"H-AFRLITCINE is the H-Net discussion list dealing with African Literature and Cinema and is affiliated with the African Literature Association."
- H-Horn Web Page (H-Net--Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
H-Horn is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on the history and culture of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region.
- H-Luso-Africa: An H-Net Network Discussing Lusophone African Studies (H-Net, Humanities Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
A discussion forum sponsored by the Lusophone African Studies Association, an associate organization of the African Studies Association of the United States.
- H-SAfrica Discussion Network (H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
"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. ."
- H-West-Africa Discussion Network (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
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.
- William Leo Hansberry Society (USA)
"The William Leo Hansberry Society is an organization of Black scholars from Africa and the African Diaspora committed to promoting and diversifying the study, research, and scholarship of the ancient African past...We are archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, bioarchaeologists, Nubiologists, Egyptologists, Ethiopianists, and Africana Studies scholars whose academic specialties focus on the ancient history, language, and culture of northeast Africa."
- Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas (Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada)
- Harvard University, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Research Center:
"New Research on the Atlantic Slave Trade," October 2-3, 2015 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Harvard University: "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa," Harvard University, 16-18 February 2017--Keynote and Panels 2-4 Videos (Center for African Studies and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
--See also: Conference Program
- Hespéris-Tamuda. (Online) -- Rabat, Morocco: Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 2010-
Current issues and archive (1921 to present). "[Depuis 1960] ...une revue académique et pluridisciplinaire consacrée à l’étude du Maroc, et à la diffusion du savoir relatif à sa société, à son histoire, à sa culture et d’une manière générale aux sciences sociales de l’Occident musulman et de l'espace méditerranéen."
- Histoire de la colonisation belge du Congo (Patrick Cloos et le Comité Consultatif--Adam Hochschild, Isidore Ndaywel E Nziem, et Jules Marchal; CoBelCo, Bruxelles, Belgique)
"...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."
- Historical Society of Nigeria (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
- History of Philosophy, Without Any Gaps: Africana Philosophy -and- Diasporic African Philosophy (Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; Chike Jeffers, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; King's College, London, UK)
A selection of interviews and lectures in podcast format and bibliographical references on the key authors and their works in the history of African and African diaspora philosophy.
- History Textbook : West African Senior School Certificate Examination. (2018). By Nwando Achebe, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Joe Alie, Hassoum Ceesay, Toby Green, Vincent Hiribarren, and Ben Kye-Ampadu. 195 pages in PDF format ; via Wordpress.com.
- Howard University: "The Gold Road" Center for African Studies. (Washington, DC)
"This interactive website provides information about the role that gold and other trade items played in the development of the medieval West African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai. Gold was the region’s most valuable resource. It moved along trans-Saharan routes to North Africa, Arabia, the Mediterranean and beyond."
- Humanities Course on 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.
- Human Relations Area Files: eHRAF World Cultures. -- New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University; Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Digital Library, c1987, 1996-2020.
A searchable, online library of full text books, articles, dissertations, and unpublished manuscripts on a wide variety of cultures and societies around the world.
- John Owen Hunwick, 1937-2015
- Images du passé en Afrique de l'Ouest (Olivier Blot, Paris, France)
"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."
- Images of Ethiopia (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
A small library of historical sites, ceremonies and other images in GIF format...from highland Ethiopia.
- Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports. (Online), Archive, 2005-2013 (Ohio University, Athens, Ohio)
Selected news links, other web links, and bibliographic citations for publications on sports in African societies.
- Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
- Indigokafe: the portal for African literatures, writers, and films (Funmilayo Tofowomo-Okelola et al., [Los Angeles, California?])
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.
- IFAN--Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop: Biens culturels africains: entrepôt de ressources documentaires de l'IFAN-CAD Réalisé en partenariat avec l'Université de Toulouse II-
Le Mirail et le soutien financier du Fonds francophone des inforoutes et le Ministère français des affaires étrangères. (Dakar, Sénégal)
***Remarquez: Depuis le mois de juillet 2016, le moteur de recherche ne marchait pas.
- INA--Institut national de l'audiovisuel: Grands Entretiens -- Afrique(s) (Paris, France)
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.
- Intellectuels non europhones. par Ousmane Kane. Document de travail. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2003. (Format PDF)
- ICCROM--International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property -- Africa (Rome, Italy)
- International Mission Photography Archive (See University of Southern California below)
- International Slavery Museum -- Highlights (Liverpool, UK)
"[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."
- ISOLA--International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (USA)
"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)."
- 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 Africa The Study of Religion in Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
- Islam -- General Resources (Compiled by the Middle East & North African Studies Librarian, Columbia University)
- África and Islam: Biblioteca Virtual (oozebap.org, Barcelona, Spain)
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)..."
- Islam in Contemporary Africa (February 2006) Compiled by Paul Schrijver. Library, Documentation, and Information Department. (Afrikastudiecentrum = African Studies Centre, University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Islam West Africa Collection (Dr. Frédérick Madore et. al., Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany)
"...a collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of various kinds, audio and video recordings, and photographs on Islam and Muslims in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire. Most of the documents are in French, but some are also available in Hausa, Arabic, Dendi, and English. The site also indexes over 800 references to relevant books, book chapters, book reviews, journal articles, dissertations, theses, reports and blog posts."
- Jahazi. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Jahazi, 2015--
"[Originally founded in 2006] Jahazi is an arts and culture journal [in English] whose vision is harnessing the wealth of artistic and cultural synergies in East Africa and how they are influenced by communities, even as they contribute to social change." ***Note: the journal's website offers tables of contents for the earliest issues and full text access only since 2015.
- Jamtan Fulani--Archive Site (Washington, DC) --via archive.is
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.
-- See also:
webPulaaku below
- JWTC--Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Johanson, Donald. "Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa?" (May 2001).
Action Bioscience.(American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC)
- Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa: Archives in Popular Swahili [of the Eastern Congo] (Vincent A. de Rooij, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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.
- Ivan Karp Archive (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
Originally, Ivan Karp studied Iteso culture in Kenya. "Ivan Karp’s work has had a broad influence in anthropology, African studies, museum studies, African philosophy, public scholarship and many other fields. This online archive of his publications is intended to make that work widely available."
--See also:
Guide to Ivan Karp Papers at the National Anthropological Archives, The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (Washington, DC)
- The Kebra Negast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (I)...translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (1932). Internet Sacred Text Archive. (Christopher M. Weimer, September 2002)
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.
- National Museums of Kenya Web Page (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Kenya Coast Bibliography (2017), compiled by Jan Hoorweg -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, Leiden University, 2017. --via AfricaBib.org
"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 2017 and contains 2200 titles."
- Kenya National Archives and Google Arts & Culture (Nairobi, Kenya; USA)
A selection of 1,043 items featured in this digital exhibition of black-and-white and color photos of people and objects from the KNA collections in Nairobi, Kenya; plus 8 illustrated "stories".
- Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan: Mali, Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, & Hausaland (1998) (Jonathan Rotondo-McCord et al., Xavier University, Louisiana)
A basic, introductory mini-course on the history of the Sudanic states of West Africa, with six essays, gallery of images, self-tests, bibliographies, and links.
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 1922-2006
- African Language Resources on the Internet (via Columbia University Libraries)
- Martin Legassick, 1940-2016
- Africa is a Country: "The Radical Historian," by Alex Lichtenstein (April 11, 2016) (New York, USA)
- The Bullet. (Online): "The Marikana Massacre: A Turning Point?" by Martin Legassick (August 31, 2012) Socialist Project (Toronto, Canada)
- Mail and Guardian. (Online): "Historian who lit intellectual veld fires," March 11, 2016 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Radical history review. (Online): "The Past and Present of Marxist South African Historiography" : Martin Legassick, interviewed by Alex Lichtenstein. Issue 82 (Winter 2002) ; 21 pages in PDF format -- Durham, NC : Duke University Press.
- Leptis Magna (Tripolitania) on the Web
- Leptis Magna.Com (USA)
"Lepcis Magna or Leptis Magna, an ancient city along the Mediterranean Sea, located near the modern-day city of Al Khums in Libya. The city began as a trading port for the ancient people of Phoenicia around 1000 BC and then became part of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. Lepcis was the most easterly of the three cities that gave the North African region of Tripolitania its name."
- Lepcis Magna -- The Roman Empire in Africa (UK)
- Liberated Africans (Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
A digital resource built around selected "proceedings for about 1,000 trials, registers containing biographical sketches for people removed from slave ships (including physical descriptions), labor contracts, anti-slavery legislation, correspondence on resettlement policies, images of captured slave ships, and even photographs of some liberated Africans."
- Liberia: Past and Present of Africa's Oldest Republic (F.P.M.Van der Kraaij, Ph.D., Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
A political history outline, with biographical entries, maps, photos, and historical summaries; plus selected news and current issues links.
- Liberian Collections--Archives Online, Indiana University Libraries (Bloomington, Indiana)
This website provides information about the project, searchable inventory lists/finding aids for 30 collections--some digitized, including Liberian government archives, presidential papers, and related information. 'The collections include historical and ethnographic documents, newspapers, government publications, correspondence, books, journals, dissertations, maps, slides, negatives, photographs, audio & video tapes, etc.'
--See also:
Liberian Photograph Collections, 1940s to present
- African Literature on the Internet (via Columbia University Libraries)
- LDH Toulon: Histoire et colonies Section de Toulon de la Ligue de droits de l'Homme. (France)
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.
- Livingstone Online: illuminating imperial exploration (University of Maryland, College Park; University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"...a digital museum and library that allows users to encounter the written, visual, and material legacies of the famous Victorian explorer David Livingstone (1813-73). The site draws on recent scholarship and international collaboration...an academic resource for the study of African history, the British Empire, nineteenth-century intercultural encounters, and digital humanities practice."
--See especially:
Resources, including:
In His Own Words -and-
David Livingstone: A Bibliography (2017)
- 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.
- Patrice Lumumba, 1925-1961
- The Africa Center, Museum for African Art, New York: "A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art" (1999)
Exhibition catalog. Guest curator, Bogumil Jewsiewicki. The exhibition included a series of nearly 50 paintings by Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, an influential artist of the 1970s.
- RFI Archives d'Afrique: Portrait de Patrice Emery Lumumba, du 6 au 13 novembre 2009 (Radio France Internationale, Paris)
- Belgium. Chambre des représentants: Documents parlementaires, les conclusions, et le rapport de la Commission (2001) d'enquête parlementaire chargée de déterminer les circonstances exactes de l'assassinat de Patrice Lumumba et l'implication éventuelle des responsables politiques belges dans celui-ci, novembre 2001. (Brussels, Belgium)
- Grioo.Com: La dernière lettre de Patrice Lumumba (novembre 1960). Le 5 novembre 2003. (Paris, France)
- Lumumba -- Zietgeist Films (New York)
Commercial site: Information about the film and its director, Raoul Peck; plus promotional links.
- Mali: Ancient Crossroads of Africa (2001) (Virginia State Department of Education, Richmond, Virginia)
A K-12 education website on the history and culture of Mali, with lesson plans, maps, a small gallery of photos, and links.
- "Mama for Story": Excerpts from Tributes to E. M. Chilver and Other Publications (Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn, et al., Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
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.
- Mandara Mountains Homepage (S. Cattini-Muller and G. Muller-Kosack, Mandaras Publishing, London, UK)
- A website highlighting the ethnographic literature and history of the peoples of the northern Mandara mountains in north Cameroon and northeast Nigeria.
- Northern Mandaras bibliography
- MANSA: Mande Studies Association (via Department of Sociology and Anthropology, State University of New York at Cortland, New York)
- The website includes information about the association's publications and activities, its by-laws, a selection of photographs on Mande culture and daily life, a cultural map; plus related links. "[Founded in 1986] MANSA was organized to increase and encourage communication between scholars interested in all topics of study involving the Mande peoples of West Africa, and the neighbors with whom they interact on a regular basis."
- MANSA Membership Directory (2012)
- MAEASaM--Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (University of Cambridge, UK)
"The MAEASaM project is working to identify and document endangered archaeological heritage sites across eight African countries,
[Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, & Zimbabwe] dated from the Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age to the 20th century, then share this information to help protect them. Using a combination of remote sensing, records-based research and selective archaeological surveys, the team is building comprehensive and up-to-date records of site types and distributions, which will be made available in an open access Arches geospatial relational database tailored for different interest groups and stakeholders."
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Resources: maps and videos on digitization
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MAEASaM newsletter
- Maps of Africa on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
- Mapungubwe Collection (University of Pretoria; Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa)
- "Mauritania's Manuscripts" (2005) by Louis Werner; photographs by Lorraine Chittock Originally published in Saudi Aramco World, November/December 2003.
- Ali A. Mazrui, 1933-2014
- African Studies Association of the United States (via Rutgers University, New Jersey): "Ali Mazrui, 1933-2014: A Tribute" (October 13, 2014) by Prof. Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
- Binghamton University, Institute of Global Cultural Studies (Binghamton, New York): Prof. Ali A. Mazrui dies, October 12, 2014
- The Nation (Nairobi, Kenya): "The life of Prof. Ali Mazrui: 13 things you should know," October 13, 2014
- John Samuel Mbiti, 1939-2019
- Africa is a Country: "Reading John Mbiti from Uganda," October 18, 2019. By Derek R. Peterson. (USA)
- Nation: "Prof. Mbiti, the Anglican cleric who dared to promote African religions," October 11, 2019. (Nairobi, Kenya)
- The New York Times: John Mbiti, 87, Dies; Punctured Myths About African Religions," October 24, 2019. (New York)
- The Standard: "Prof. Mbiti: The man who translated Bible from English to Kamba dies aged 88," October 7, 2019. (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Religion News Service: "A Tribute to Mwalimu John Mbiti, patriarch of African philosophy and religion studies," Ocotber 31, 2019. By Jacob K. Olupona. (USA)
- Amadou Mahtar Mbow, 1921--
- Memórias de África et do Oriente, Biblioteca Digital (Universidade de Aveiro, Centro de Estudos sobre África e do Desenvolvimento--Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, e Fundação Portugal-África, Lisboa, Portugal)
- "...it's main aim [is the] creation of an online library of historical data available in archives, documentation centers, libraries and institutions, private organizations and individuals involved...in African countries with Portuguese as the national language (PALOP)...[and] digitalization of rare works or those works that are difficult to access..."
- Digital collections
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, January 30-August 23, 2020 (New York)
- Joseph C. Miller, 1939-2019
- Musée des Civilisations Noires (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Music and Dance of Africa (Columbia University Libraries)
- My Africa Is (Nosarieme Garrick, Hassatou Diallo, et al, USA) --via Tumblr
The site features open access full length documentary videos about pioneering Africans in various fields and reports on cultural and economic trends on the African continent. "...a documentary series taking you on a journey across the continent through the eyes of an insider."
- Chronology of Namibian history: from precolonial times to independent Namibia. By Dr. Klaus Dierks (2005) -- Windhoek, Namibia: Klaus Dierks, Namibia Scientific Society, 2005. --via Author's web site
- The National Museum of African Art, The Smithsonian Institution: "Caravans of Gold, Fragment in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa." Online Exhibition, due to COVID-19 restrictions.
- The New African: the radical monthly (1962-1969) (DISA--Digital innovation South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
"...[first] published in January 1962. The four founders, Randolph Vigne, Neville Rubin, James Currey and Timothy Holmes wrote copiously - leaders, articles and reviews - often under pseudonyms The first subscribers to the periodical were drawn from the Liberal Party circle [in South Africa]. Contributors to those early issues were mostly South Africans, with a few from Britain and only three from elsewhere. The magazine’s character, largely English-speaking South African and liberal, was forward looking in the post- Sharpeville time of hope, and original in its commingling of culture and politics."
- The New York Historical Society: Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery (New York)
"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."
- The New York Times: "A Continent Remade: Reflections on 1960, the Year of Africa," February 20, 2020. (New York)
"We selected images — some from The New York Times’s archive and others from various collections around the world — to tell the story of the heady days around the Year of Africa. Each of the 17 countries that gained independence that year is represented here in photographs, but there are also images from countries, like Ghana, with especially rich photographic traditions. We then invited a group of creative people of African descent to give us their personal reactions to these images."
- The Nigerian Hinterland Project (See Harriet Tubman Resource Centre above)
- Nigerian National Archives, Kaduna (Nigeria)
--See especially: List of Records held at NNA-Kaduna
- Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (Evanston, Illinois)
- The Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana: The Bugakwe, Dxeriku, Hambukushu, Wayeyi, and Xanekwe Peoples. (Dr. John Bock, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton)
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.
- Colloque international "Sources orales et histoire africaine : bilan et perspectives" à l'Université de Lomé, Togo, du 24 au 26 mai 2011 (via Centre d'études des mondes africains, Paris, France)
- George Padmore Collection, 1933-1945 at Princeton University Library--Manuscript Division (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)
- PANAFEST '66 '69 '74 '77 (Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent ...[et al.], Chimurenga, Cape Town, South Africa)
An open access, web documentary site --in French and some English-- videos of over 50 interviews with participants in the 4 key international pan-African festivals in Africa during the period 1966-1977: FESMAN--First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar, 1966); PANAF--First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969); Zaïre 1974 (Kinshasa) ; and FESTAC--Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (Lagos, 1977).
- The School of Pan African Thought (London, UK)
"...an independent education and policy think tank that works to protect the human rights of African and African Caribbean people."
--See especially:
Videos -and-
Papers (requires membership)
- Pan African Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies (Witwatersrand, South Africa)
- Pan African Space Station (Cape Town, South Africa)
"Founded by
Chimurenga in collaboration with musician and composer Neo Muyanga in 2008, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a periodic, pop-up live radio studio; a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive, as well as an ongoing, internet based radio station."
--See especially:
PASS Blog -and-
PASS Radio Archive --via M-X Cloud
- Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam in West Africa and the Mouride Diaspora (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles)
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.]
- Rapport sur la Resitution du Patrimoine Culturel Africain (Veuillez voir ci-dessous)
- 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 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.
- See also, an exchange of views about the series published in West Africa review. (Online) below.
- Peuples noirs, peuples africains. (Online): Archive, 1978-1984. -- Paris, France; Perth, Australia: University of Western Australia, 2005.
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.
- Placide Tempels -- Un Site Web (via Michael Meeuwis, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Centre Aequatoria, Belgium)
"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.
- Projeto Cultural Dacosta (José Luiz Pereira da Costa, Dacosta Comércio Exterior Ltda., Porto Alegre, Brasil)
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.
- "Proverbs in African Languages." (October 2019) Web Dossier. (The Library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands)
- African Proverbs, Sayings, and Stories (2020) Afriprov.org (Rev. Joseph G. Healey, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ; Joseph Kariuki, Urban Ministries Support Group, Nairobi, Kenya)
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.
- Quest. (Online)--Archive: an African journal of philosophy = Revue africaine de philosophie. -- Leiden, The Netherlands: African Studies Centre, 1987-2012.
"...[was] 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."
- Radio France Internationale sur l'histoire de l'Afrique (RFI, Paris)
- Terence Osborn Ranger, 1929-2015
- Reading Zimbabwe (Dr. Tinashe Mushakavanhu, UK & Zimbabwe)
A bibliographic project: "...an independent not-for-profit digital platform committed to discover and celebrate Zimbabwean literatures and to place them before the largest possible audience...primarily indexed in English, Shona and Ndebele...[As of May 2018] This repository currently hosts references to 1851 books written by 1106 authors published in 114 cities by 421 publishers."
- The Study of Religion in Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)
- Réseau des études africaines en France
- Revue noire. (Online) -- Paris: Publications Éditions Bleu Outremer, 1991-
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]
- Sankore Institute of African Islamic Studies International--Digital Archive (Shaykh Muhammad Shareef, USA and Nigeria)
This site offers interpretive historical summaries on Islam in Africa and free downloads of selected works in English translation of the writings of Uthman dan Fodio, his brother Abdullahi, his son Muhammad Bello, and his daughter Nana Asmau of the Sokoto Caliphate, and several other Islamic intellectuals in West Africa. "....conceived December 15, 1985...as the result of conversations between the present Sultan of Maiurno al-Hajj Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Bello Maiurno ibn Attahiru ibn Ahmad Zuruku ibn Abu Bakr Attiku ibn Shehu Uthman Dan Fodio, our shaykh, Imam Muhammad al-Amin ibn Adam Karagh, Ahmad Abideen Hassan and the founding director Muhammad Shareef...to collect the Arabic and Ajami manuscripts of the Sokoto Caliphate from northern Nigeria and convey them to the town of Maiurno in order to be edited and republished...To date SIIASI has collected 3000 Arabic manuscripts and 123 Ajami manuscripts (Fulbe’, Hausa, Wolof and Mande’). Of these, more than 89 have been translated and published by the institute."
- Le Rapport Sarr-Savoy sur les conditions de la Restitution du Patrimoine Culturel Africain (2018)
- "Restituer le patrimoine culturel africain: vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle." Rapport remis au Président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, le 23 novembre 2018. Par Felwine Sarr et Bénédicte Savoy. 240 pages en format PDF (via L'Ambassade de la France au Bénin, Cotonou)
- "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics." November 2018. By Felwine Sarr and Benedicte Savoy. English Version. 252 pages in PDF format.
--Plus, links to selected news articles
- Libération. (Paris): "Une restitution qui s'inscrit dans l'histoire," le 12 décembre 2018 ; "Ver une remise en Etats des oeuvres africaines," le 20 novembre 2018
- ModernGhana.com (Accra): Opinion articles by Dr. Kwame Opoku-- "Discussions on Restitution of Looted African Artefacts at the University of Ghana, Legon," December 22, 2018 ; "Miracles, Reverses, and Hope in Restitution of Looted African Artefacts," December 30, 2018.
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library -- Digital Exhibitions on African History and Culture (Dr. Sylvianne Diouf et al., New York)
- Africana Age : African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century. (2011)
"Between 2005 and 2010, sixty Schomburg-Mellon Fellows conducted research in the Schomburg divisions, looking for photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals to illustrate Africana Age."
--See especially:
Essays |
Images |
Maps
- The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World (2011)
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."
- Au Sénégal (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Shikanda Portal -- Works by Wim van Binsbergen (Wim van Binsbergen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
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.
- "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994" Exhibition
(via Universes in universe -- Worlds of Art, Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt, Berlin, Germany)
- An introduction to the exhibition, with the calendar of programs and profiles of the artists and sample images of their work. "The Short Century is a visionary project, conceived by Okwui Enwezor, which documents for the first time a fascinating, multi-faceted Modernism and Counter-Modernism that emerged in Africa out of the ruins of colonialism. It describes the impact of independence and liberation movements on the African continent between 1945 and 1994 on the visual arts, literature, film, photography, music, and architecture."
- From February-May 2002, the collection was on exhibit at the P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
- Slave Societies Digital Archive (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee)
"...dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World [especially: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Spanish Florida, Ouidah (Benin), and Luanda (Angola) ] . The SSDA’s largest and oldest collections were generated by the Catholic Church, which mandated the baptism of African slaves in the fifteenth century and later extended this requirement to the Iberian New World. The baptismal records preserved in Slave Societies are the oldest and most uniform serial data available for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and offer the most extensive information regarding their ethnic origins...other religious documentation such as confirmations, petitions to wed, wills, and even annulments."
- Slave-Studies.net: Transatlantic Slave Trade Part of the WWW-VL European History. (Claus K. Meyer, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
A selection of links to web sites with data sets or other resources on the transatlantic slave trade.
- Slave Voyages -- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Rice University, Houston, Texas; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
The site provides free access to selected data on thousands of slave ship voyages; plus scholarly essays, illustrations, animated features, and maps. The latest version (2020) includes the "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database" ; "Intra-American Slave Trade Database" ; "African Names Database" ; and, "Image Galleries". "[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..."
- Slavery and Slave Trade History from UNESCO See UNESCO below.
- Slavery Archive: The #Slaveryarchive Book Club (USA)
Since 2020, with meetings held over Zoom..."The #Slaveryarchive book club is an online initiative put together by scholars Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University), Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Vanessa Holden (University of Kentucky), and Alex Gil (Columbia University) to discuss newly published books on slavery and the Afro-Atlantic world."
- Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora (Virginia Humanities and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; University of Colorado at Boulder, Office of Research Computing and Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship)
An online library of 1,280 images "...envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by...anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World."
- "Slavery" in The New York Historical Society (See: Manuscripts Collection Relating to Slavery (above)
- Remember Slavery Programme of the United Nations See United Nations below.
- 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:
- Colloque international "Socialismes Africaines", du 4 au 7 avril 2016, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, (Site Pouchet CNRS, Canal U, Paris, France)
Ce sont les actes du colloque au format vidéo: "...organisé par le CRIMIC, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, la FMSH, l'EHESS, l'IMAF, l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, le CHS, l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, la Fondation Jean Jaurès, la Fondation Gabriel Peri, le CESSMA et LAM en partenariat avec RFI.
- La Société des Africanistes (via Maison René Ginouvès de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie,
Université Paris X, France)
- 'La Société des africanistes a été fondée en 1930 ... au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle ... Le Musée de l'Homme a accueilli la société en 1939. Beaucoup des collections d'objets, archives sonores, photographies, films concernant l'Afrique y ont été déposés par ses membres. La bibliothèque du Musée reçoit également les livres et publications envoyés à la Société pour recension dans le Journal des Africanistes.'
- Société française d'histoire d'outre mer (Saint-Denis, France)
"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.
- Soninké language and culture of West Africa and beyond (via Columbia University Libraries)
- Museums Online South Africa (via IFlow Online, Cape Town, South Africa)
A directory portal with links to all major museums and cultural societies in South Africa.
- 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, highlights from public exhibitions and related events, teacher and other educational resources,
online publications (free downloads with registration), as well as several "virtual exhibiitions":
- South African History Online (Pretoria, South Africa)
- SAHO offers online publications, photo and image exhibitions, brief historical summaries and biographies, and classroom suggestions. "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."
- SAHO--People: an extensive biographical archive with links to related historical summaries on events and organizations
- South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
- "The South African Museum is dedicated to promoting greater understanding and appreciation of natural history and anthropology for the enrichment of southern Africa's heritage to the benefit of all."
- 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."
- South African Voices University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (Madison, Wisconsin)
"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.
- Southern African review of books. (Online) Archive -- Ulm, Germany: Universität Ulm, 1987-2007.
--via The Internet Archive Wayback Machine.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.
- SPLA -- Portail de la Diversité Culturelle: Afrique SudPlanète (Paris, France)
Ce site offre les actualités et les liens sur les divers événements culturels au tour du monde francophone.
- Sports News from Africa (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries)
- Studies in African linguistics. (Online) -- Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida ; Portland, Oregon: Studies in African Linguistics, Inc., [1970]-
The web site features open access to "articles" from 1970 to the present. "...a peer-reviewed, academic journal whose goal is to provide a public forum within the community of African language scholars for discourse on issues of direct concern to the field of African Linguistics. Thus, the journal seeks to publish African language data and analysis that might not find a place easily or suitably in more general journals."
- Sudan Archaeological Research Society (c/o The British Museum, London, UK)
The website offers information about current research, fieldwork projects, and publications by the Society (founded in 1991).
See especially:
Sudan and Nubia, 1997-2022 (Bulletin of the SARS)
- The Sudanese travels of Theodoro Krump (1700-1702) -- Excerpts from: Hoher und Fruchtbarer Palm-Baum des Heiligen Evangelij. English. (Prof. Jay Spalding, Dept. of History, Kean University, Union, New Jersey)
"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."
- Sudanic Africa. (Online) -- TOC and Excerpts (Bergen, Norway)
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."
- Swahili Language on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries, New York)
- "Technology and Material Culture in African History: Challenges and Potentials for Research and Teaching," January 4 – 8, 2023, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania---"Call for Papers" (via HNet--Humanities and Social Sciences Online, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
Organized by the History Department at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the ERC-funded research project “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000” at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands.
--The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2022.
- Iba Der Thiam, 1937-2020
- Thinking Africa -- Institut de recherche et d’enseignement sur la paix en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal)
"[Crée en janvier 2013] Réseau de jeunes chercheurs, d’universitaires confirmés et d’experts, Thinking Africa offre, aux institutions, aux gouvernements, aux sociétés civiles, et aux organisations, des analyses, recommandations et formations pour vivre la paix sur le continent africain."
--Veuillez voir surtout:
Note d'Analyse Politique -et-
Thinking Africa TV
- Tierno Bokar -- U.S. Premiere, March 30 - April 26, 2005, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.
- La Voie Tidjaniya (Tidjaniya Zaouiya of Europe, Lyon, France)
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.
- Timbuktu--Mali on the Internet
- Tirailleurs 2010 au présent (Radio France International, Paris)
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.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database--Slave Voyages Database (See above)
- Ufahamu Africa (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
"...a podcast about life and politics on the continent. Our weekly episodes begin with an overview of what we’re reading and learning from the continent, followed by an in-depth interview with a thinker, maker, or innovator."
- History in Progress Uganda (Andrea Stultiens, The Hague, The Netherlands; Canon Griffin, Kampala, Uganda)
An open access digital gallery of photographs from and about Uganda over the last century. "HIPUganda collects photographs by digitising them. Originals stay where they are. By sharing the photographs online HIPUganda opens up the possibility to relate to, respond to, and think about how Uganda’s history is (and is not) available in photographs...These collections include colonial archives and personal collections, images made in a professional context that could range from photojournalism to anthropology, the content of shoeboxes and albums, photographs made by Ugandan and non Ugandan professionals and amateurs."
- United Nations: Remember Slavery
"...the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 62/122 of 17 December 2007, declared 25 March the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to be observed annually. The resolution also called for the establishment of an outreach programme to mobilize educational institutions, civil society and other organizations."
- UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO General Home Page in English or French
- Digitizing Our Shared UNESCO History (Paris)
Open access viewing of images, video, recordings, and documents from the UNESCO archives, but "prior written permission is required to reproduce the content..."
- UNESCO Projects in Africa, Culture Sector = Projets en Afrique, Secteur de la culture
- 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.
-- See also:
GHoA Home Page
- UNESCO Women in Africa History
A clickable map, links with colorfully illustrated texts on history and culture, featuring biographies, comics, maps, photos, spoken word recordings, short bibliographies, and other resources for teaching and researching African women in history.
- UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Lists (Search by Country)
The programme includes: "Urgent Safeguarding" and "Representative" lists. "According to the 2003 Convention, ICH consists of oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage; performing arts (such as traditional music, dance and theatre); social practices, rituals and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and, traditional craftsmanship."
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization on the Slave Trade and Slavery in Africa (UNESCO, Paris, France)
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, December 2nd
- Places of Memory of the Slave Route in the Latin Caribbean (Havana, Cuba)
The site features historical summaries, maps, and photographs of historic places. "To verify the diversity of material evidence in the Slave Route in the Caribbean, its relationship with the community and the intangible dimension expressed through the various forms of living cultures; to diagnose the state of preservation of these properties and their management policies; and to promote the study and preservation of this legacy."
- Routes of Enslaved Peoples
- 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.
- 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
- Tradition orale et archives de la traite négrière (2001) sous la direction de Djibril Tamsir Niane. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2001. 143 pages en format PDF
- 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.
- UNESCO Slave Trade Archives Project
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."
- Unfinished business: a comparative survey of historical and contemporary slavery (2008) by Joel Quirk. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2008. 141 pages in PDF format
- Poverty, gender and human trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa: rethinking best practices in migration management (2006) By Thanh-Dam Truong. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2006. 141 pages in PDF format
- UNESCO Intercultural Dialogue: Iron Roads in Africa = Les Routes du Fer en Afrique
This site (in English or French) offers information about a UNESCO-sponsored project on the history of iron technology in Africa. It includes summaries of archaeological research, a list of researchers and their works (as of 1994), information about conferences, films and exhibitions, publications, and links.
- World Digital Library on Africa -and- The Middle East and North Africa (Paris, France)
This site offers a relatively small selection (about 365 items for Africa and 1440 for the Middle East/North Africa) of digitized rare books, maps, and documents which can be downloaded. UNESCO, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Congress of the USA, and many other institutions have partnered to launch this project.
- UNESCO 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. [80 page final report in PDF format]
- Intangible Cultural Heritage--Search by Country (All)
- World Heritage in Danger, Africa 1998-2018 (French/English):
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Aapravasi Ghat (Mauritius)
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Air & Ténéré (Niger)
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Ambohimanga, Royal Hill (Madagascar)
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Cercles mégalithiques de Sénégambie = Stone circles of Senegambia (The Gambia)
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Chongoni Rock Art Area (Malawi)
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Cyrene, Archaeological site (Libya)
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Dja Faunal Reserve, southeastern Cameroon
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Djenné, Old Towns (Mali)
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Djoudj--Parc national des oiseaux (Senegal)
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Drakensberg Park, uKhahlamba (South Africa)
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Egypt: Abu Mena, Thebes, Cairo, Memphis, Nubia, & St. Catherine Monastery
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Garamba National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
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Gebel Barkal and sites of the Napatan Region (The Sudan)
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Ghadamès, Old Town (Libya)
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Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town (Ethiopia)
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Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia)
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James Island and Related Sites (The Gambia)
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Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
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Kasubi, Tombs of Buganda Kings (Uganda)
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Kilwa Kisiwani Ruins and Songo Mnara (Tanzania)
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Kondoa Rock Art Sites (Tanzania)
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Koutammakou, land of the Batammariba (Togo)
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Lake Turkana National Parks (Kenya)
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Lamu Old Town (Kenya)
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Leptis Magna, Archaeological site (Libya)
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Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park (Central African Republic)
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Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape (South Africa)
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Matobo Hills (Zimbabwe)
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Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests (Kenya)
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Le Morne Cultural Landscape (Mauritius)
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Mount Nimba Strict Nature Preserve (Guinea & Côte d'Ivoire)
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Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
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Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (Nigeria)
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Royal Palaces of Abomey (Bénin)
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Sabratha, Archaeological site (Libya)
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Saint-Louis Island (Sénégal)
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Selous Game Reserve (Tanzania)
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Simien National Park (Ethiopia)
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Sukur Cultural Landscape (Nigeria)
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Tadrart Acacus, Rock-art sites (Libya)
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Timbuktu (Mali)
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Tomb of Askia (Mali)
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Tsodilo (Botswana)
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Virunga National Park (Dem. Rep. of Congo)
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Zanzibar, Stone Town (Tanzania)--The World Heritage List:
2018 (General)
-- World Heritage newsletter = La Lettre du Patrimoine Mondial. (Online) -- Paris: UNESCO World Heritage, 1993-2005All back issues and information on subscriptions via e-mail.
- United Nations "International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-2024" (New York, USA; Geneva, Switzerland)
- Universes in Universe, Worlds of Art -- Africa, Asia, the Americas
(Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt, Berlin, Germany)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.
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop: Bibliothèque Numérique Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Remarquez: en raison de la capacité du serveur, il se peut qu'on attende un petit moment pour accéder aux documents. "La bibliothèque numérique comprend plusieurs collections de documents: les thèses et les mémoires déposés à la bibliothèque, depuis la création de l'université le 24 février 1957 ; des articles publiés par les enseignants et chercheurs de l'Université; des publications de l'Université; des Ouvrages rares et précieux."
- Universite Cheikh Anta Diop: Colloque International « Hommage et reconnaissance au Professeur Ibrahima Thioub » 13, 14, et 15 juillet 2023, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
-- Veuillez voir: Le Livret du colloque
- Université de Nouakchott: Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Historiques (Nouakchott, Mauritanie)
"[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.
- Université Paris I : Mutations africaines dans la longue durée (2006) (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France)
- Ce site reflète la restructuration de la recherche sur l'Afrique à Paris I depuis 1994: les programmes, les colloques, les publications, et les autres activités des spécialistes sur l'Afrique surtout dans les domaines de l'histoire, de la science politique, de la sociologie, et de l'anthropologie.
- Axes problématiques
- Ressources
- Les tables de matières de la revue Cahiers du CRA (Centre de recherches africaines).
- Veuillez voir aussi: Centre d'études des mondes africains ci-dessus.
- University of Bergen Library, Special Collections: The Mahmoud Salih Collection (Digitalt, Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen, Norway)
An open access digital library of books, documents, maps, papers, and prints on Sudanese history and cultural anthropology.
- University of California eScholarship Published in association with California Digital Library. (Berkeley, California)
- "Advanced Search" for all "African Studies" in the repository (books, conference papers, journal articles, etc.)
Includes full-text, online editions of books (usually without illustrations) such as:
-- 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.
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Africana: A Collection of Digitized Books" -- Selected British Colonial Annual Reports from The National Archives, UK, 1800-1939
- University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies Library: Swahili Manuscripts Project
In association with Adam Matthew Publications. (London, UK)
- The website describes the on-going project and offers an online catalog of the collection. "The library of the School of Oriental and African Studies holds the largest public collection of Swahili manuscripts in Britain. The collection includes more than 250 manuscripts dating from the 1790s to the 1970s, contained in the papers of William Taylor, Alice Werner, William Hichens, Wilfred Whiteley, Jan Knappert and Yahya Ali Omar. The library also holds microfilms of the manuscripts that were deposited by JWT Allen at the University of Dar es Salaam."
- Selected images from manuscripts and audio files
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology : "Daily Life in Sierra Leone" Exhibition (Philadelphia)
"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.
- University of Southern California Libraries, Digital Library (Los Angeles)
- Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965
Digitized selections in "open access" from the Ronald H. Chilcote Papers held on microfilm: documentary ephemera on emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa. Emphasis is on materials originating from the nationalist organizations of Angola and Mozambique with lesser amounts on the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Biasau, and Sao Tome and Principe. Also included are copies of United Nations documents relating to Portuguese Africa.
- International Mission Photography Archive, c1860-1960
"...offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean."
- University of Wisconsin, Data and Program Library Service: On-Line Data Archive--Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Madison, Wisconsin)
- University of Wisconsin Libraries: Electronic Facsimile -- Africana Digitization Project (Madison, Wisconsin)
- A collection of searchable, full texts of historical accounts in English for West African history, 1526-1680 -- especially for areas now known as Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. As of January 2003, there were 7 E-Books on offer, including one reference work:
- A guide to original sources for precolonial western Africa published in European languages. By J.D. Fage. -- Madison, Wisconsin: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1994.
- Urhobo Waado: Web Site of the Urhobo Historical Society (USA)
- This website offers an extensive collection of popular and scholarly historical summaries, images from art exhibitions, current news and information about about the Urhobo Historical Society itself and about Urhobo communities in Nigeria and elsewhere, and related links. "[Founded in August 1999 in New York City] ...the supreme aim of Urhobo Historical Society is to create a movement that will promote the preservation of historical records and the writing of diverse historical experiences among Urhobos."
- Urhobo History Society Conferences (since 1999)
- Jan Vansina, 1929-2017
- Fundação Pierre Verger (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
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.
- 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.
- West African Arabic Manuscript Project & Database (Prof. Charles C. Stewart and Bruce Stewart Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois)
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.
- West African Archaeological Association (via University of Ghana, Legon)
- Ivor G. Wilks, 1928-2014
- Wobébli: le village Wé virtuel (M. & Mme. Laurent-Tahou, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; via France?)
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.
- The Woman King Syllabus. A #slaveryarchive production. (Drs. Ana Lucia Araujo, Vanessa Holden, Jessica Marie Johnson and Alex Gil, USA)
"The Woman King premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022. Since then, it has received a warm welcome by audiences around the world...Our syllabus is meant to satisfy that curiosity—for those who are interested in the history beyond the fiction." The site includes recommended books and other readings on the kingdom of Dahomey, the Agodjie, Vodun, African women in the Atlantic slave trade. and related topics.
- UNESCO World Digital Library: Selections from Africa and The Middle East (See UNESCO above)
- World History Archives on Africa (Haines Brown; via Hartford Web Publishing, Connecticut)
- York University, Harriet Tubman Institute: "Les contributions de l'Afrique et ses diasporas à la civilisation du monde" = "Africa and its Diasporas’ Contributions to World Civilization," Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal, du 26 au 29 juin 2023." En collaboration avec l’Institut supérieur des arts et des cultures, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal. (Toronto, Canada)
--Date limite pour recevoir les résumés : 15 décembre, 2022.
- Network for Historical Research in Zambia (Lusaka, Zambia)
Officially launched in 2003, this international organization promotes scholarly exchange and offers an online directory of scholars actively pursuing research and publishing academic work on all aspects of Zambian society.
- Zamani Project (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- This site offers mostly photos, maps, and videos of 3-D models of archaeological sites. "...aims to capture spatial information of tangible cultural heritage sites across Africa and other parts of the world. Based on field campaigns and complex in-house processing, the team creates data sets that serve as permanent digital records for future generations."
- Black Monuments Matter Exhibition, October 2020-March 2021: A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture
Presented by: Zamani Project - University of Cape Town, South Africa; Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations - Aga Khan University, London, UK
- Map of All Sites
- Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
- Djémila, Algeria
- Djingareyber Mosque, Timbuktu, Mali
- Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali
- Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Fort of São Sebastião, Mozambique
- Gede Ruins, Kenya
- Île de Gorée, Sénégal
- Great Zimbabwe, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
- Rock Churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
- Shela Mosque, Lamu, Kenya
- Meroë Pyramids, Sudan
- Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan
- Yemrehanna Kristos Church, Ethiopia
- Zanzibar Department of Museum and Antiquities (Tanzania)
This official site features general information for the visitor/researcher, with brief descriptions of the collections and a few photos.