WEST AFRICA
West Africa Region
- ACMAD: Centre africain pour les applications de la météorologie au développement = African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (Niamey, Niger)
- "L'objectif est de contribuer au développement durable des différents secteurs socio-économiques du continent africain à travers ses domaines d'investigation, la Météorologie et le Climat. Les activités de ACMAD sont la prévision du temps à courte et moyenne échéances, la veille climatique, la prévision saisonnière, et la formation des métérologistes Africains aux nouvelles techniques et technologies." A ce site, on peut trouver entre autres choses: un bulletin climatique, image satellite, plan stratégique, et liens météos.
- The State of Climate in Africa 2022. (2023) Published by the World Meterological Association.
- The State of Climate in Africa 2021. (2022) Published by the World Meterological Association.
- The State of Climate in Africa 2018. (March 2019)
Co-sponsored by USAID, World Meteorological Association, Norwegian Refugee Council, & ACMAD ; 22 pages in PDF format - The State of Climate in Africa 2017. (March 2018). Climate Service for Increased Resilience in the Sahel Project ; Report No. 5. -- [Niger]: ACMAD, 2018. 31 pages in PDF format
- Forum de prévision saisonnière pour les pays du Golfe de Guinée, PRESAGG-2018, Lomé, Togo du 4 au 9 mars 2018. Prévision climatique saisonnière valable pour mars-avril-mai-juin 2018 aux pays du Golfe de Guinée.
- Regional Climate Outlook Forum PRESANORD-08, Algiers, Algeria, 20-24 March 2015. Seasonal Climate Outlook Bulletin, March-April-May 2015 over North Africa.
- African Elections Project (Accra, Ghana)"The West African Elections project is aimed at developing the capacity of the media in ICTs in order for them to use it as a tool for election coverage and the provision of elections information and knowledge for planned elections..."
- African Presences : Music in Africa (2008--) (Prof. Eric Charry, Wesleyan University, Middleton, Connecticut) Course blog
- African Online Digital Library (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)Still under reconstruction: A website about a 20-year long digital library program (begun in 2000/2001) at Michigan State University, l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, and the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal. The site included: materials relating to West African history and cultures mostly from the private archives of individual scholars: selected photographs, unpublished research papers and conference proceedings, field notes, and short audio files of informants and interviews with scholars.
- Africapolis: étude de l'urbanisation en Afrique de l'Ouest, 1950-2020, Update (2015) = Urbanization dynamics in West Africa par François Moriconi-Ebrard, Dominique Harre, and Philipp Heinrigs. Revised ed. (Paris: OECD, Sahel and West Africa Club, 2016)A geostatistical study first produced in 2008 by a team of researchers at SEDET--Université Paris Diderot for AFD and revised by OECD scholars.
--See also: Africapolis.org (2019): Visualise urbanisation in Africa - African Language Materials Archive (ALMA): A joint project of the West African Research Association and Title VI National Resource Centers for African Studies. (via Matrix, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- "...a multi-partner project focusing on the promotion and documentation of literature and literacy in the languages of Africa. It further serves to assist African language authors and publishers in publicizing and distributing their work."
- See also: ALMA e-books--original site of the ALMA collection, produced by the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal), Columbia University, CAORC--Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Digital Library for International Research at The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois; with support from the U.S. Department of Education and UNESCO. The e-books presented here are in major languages of West Africa: Bamanankan, Jula, Fula, Fulfulde, Kriolu, Mandinka, Mooré, Pulaar, and Wolof.
- AfricaRice: Africa Rice Center = Centre du Riz pour l'Afrique (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire)In September 2009, the West Africa Rice Development Association was renamed "Africa Rice Center".[The Center]...is a leading pan-African research organization with a mission to contribute to poverty alleviation and food security in Africa through research, development and partnership activities. It is one of the 15 international agricultural research Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)...created in 1971 by 11 African countries. Today its membership comprises 24 countries, covering West, Central, East and North African regions..."
--Bibliography of AfricaRice publications, 1991-2020 ; Current news (2017) ; Current News
- Agence universitaire de la Francophonie: Bureau Afrique de l'Ouest (Dakar, Sénégal)A ce site, on peut lire les actualités sur l'education dans la région de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et suivre les liens aux autres sites.
- AITI-KACE: Advanced Information Technology Institute--Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (Accra, Ghana)"Our dynamic team works to stimulate the growth of the ICT Sector in ECOWAS. Established in 2003, through a partnership between the Government of Ghana and the Government of India, this state-of the-art facility provides an ideal environment for innovation, teaching and learning as well as practical research on the application of ICT4D in Africa."
- All Africa.Com: Recent News from and about West Africa (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)Selected current news articles (in English or in French) based on reports from West African newspapers and news agencies, the Pan African News Agency (PANA), and other sources. See also individual country sections.
- 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.
- Archives Nationales du Sénégal (Dakar, Sénégal)
-- Veuillez voir aussi: L'information de contact, via Piaf--Portail international archivistique francophone - ARID Afrique: Association Régionale pour l'Irrigation et le Drainage en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
- "L'ARID est une association à but non lucratif créée en 1996 pour répondre à la demande des professionnels de l'irrigation du drainage et de la maîtrise des crues, en attendant que des comités nationaux de la Commission Internationale des Irrigations et du Drainage se mettent en place. En effect, elle couvre géographiquement 23 pays qui n'étaient pas représentés sur la scène internationale à la création de l'association."
- Bambara on the Internet
- An ka taa - Speak Manding (2023) (Dr. Coleman Donaldson, USA)"An ka taa" is a website featuring free lessons on Bambara or Dioula, with a variety of texts and videos, including a searchable dictionary. "An ka taa is an initiative to offer modern educational media, resources and lessons for current and emergent speakers of Manding—commonly referred to as Bambara, Dioula, Malinké or Mandingo."
- Bamadaba : Dictionnaire orthographique bambara, avec un index français-bambara. 2011–2022. (Corpus Bambara de Référence, Paris, France)
- Bamanan: Langue et Culture Bambara Mɔgɔya ye juru ye! (Charles Bailleul, Vittorio Bonfanti et allii, Centre d'Etude de Langue (CEL), Falajè, Mali)
- Bambara: Léxique bambara-français-anglais (Richard Nci Diarra, Koutala, Mali)
- Hadamaden josiraw dantigekan = Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-- Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Information Centre ; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
--Veuillez voir aussi: "Hadamaden josiraw dantigɛli diɲɛ fan tan ni naani ye." --Traduction, 2023, via Mali Pense - Corpus Bambara de Référence (LLACAN, Paris, France ; AMALAN, Bamako, Mali; St. Petersburg University, Russia)"Le Corpus Bambara de Référence fait partie d'un macro-projet Corpora Mandeica qui regroupe des corpus de plusieurs langues mandé, c’est un corpus massif de textes annotés en langue bambara...Le Corpus se compose des textes des genres différents, publiés (périodiques, belles lettres, littérature orale, manuels, guides pratiques, littérature de l’alphabétisation fonctionnelle, publications religieuses…) ou non-publiés (lettres des lecteurs des journaux; textes enregistrés et transcrits par les chercheurs…) dont les auteurs proviennent des zones dialectales différentes."
--Veuillez voir surtout: Bambarabiblio -- Bibliothèque électronique bambara - Indiana University, Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment: Bamana Languages On-Line. (Bloomington, Indiana)Audio files in Bambara and English which accompany the grammar, An Ka Bamanankan Kan Kalan, by Charles Bird et al. (1976-77), published by Indiana University Press. Note: there are no online texts.
- Mali pense. (Bamako, Mali; Paris, France)
- An ka taa - Speak Manding (2023) (Dr. Coleman Donaldson, USA)
- BCEAO: Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Dakar, Senegal)Sur ce site, on peut trouver les actualités de la banque et de l'Union Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UMOA).
- Banque de France: La Zone Franc (2020) (Paris, France)
- Voir aussi: France. Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances, et de l'Industrie ci-dessous.
- BOAD: Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement (Lomé, Togo)"BOAD est l'institution commune de financement du développement des Etats de l'Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)." Sur ce site officiel de la banque, on peut lire les actualités et les publications. Voir aussi, le site de l'UEMOA ci-dessous.
- "Bibliography on the Management of the Environment and Development in the West African Sahel 1985-1999," by Han van Dijk and Elvire Eijkman. (2002) Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online). Vol. 8 (2002) -- Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Libraries, 2002.-- via Columbia University Libraries.
- Boko Haram in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad
- Boko Haram in Nigeria (via Columbia University Libraries)
- International Crisis Group on Boko Haram in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
- "JAS vs. ISWAP: The War of the Boko Haram Splinters." (March 28, 2024)
- Boko Haram au Tchad: au délà de la réponse sécuritaire. (le 8 mars 2017)
--Résumé en anglais - Cameroon's Far North: Reconstruction Amid Ongoing Conflict (October 25, 2017)
- Cameroon: Confronting Boko Haram (November 16, 2016)
- Le Niger face à Boko Haram: au délà de la contre-insurrection. (le 27 février 2017)
--Résumé en anglais - Watchmen of Lake Chad: Vigilante Groups Fighting Boko Haram. (February 23, 2017)
- "JAS vs. ISWAP: The War of the Boko Haram Splinters." (March 28, 2024)
- BREDA: Bureau régional de l'UNESCO pour l'éducation en Afrique (UNESCO, Dakar, Sénégal)A ce site, on peut lire les actualités sur la planification et le développement de l'éducation en Afrique au Sud du Sahara. Le BREDA aussi assume le rôle de représentation de l'Unesco auprè de six pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: le Cap Vert, la Gambie, la Guinée-Bissau, le Liberia, le Sénégal et la Sierra Leone.
- Burkina NTIC (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)Burkina NTIC est un site Web qui met à la disposition du public les actualités sur les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication au Burkina Faso et en Afrique de l'Ouest.
- CENOZO--Cellule Norbert Zongo pour le journalisme d’investigation en Afrique de l’Ouest (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)"Le principal objectif de la CENOZO, est de contribuer au renforcement des capacités des journalistes d’investigation ouest-africains à travers des formations, du soutien financier et technique à l’investigation dans divers domaines tels que la corruption, le crime organisé, la mauvaise gouvernance, les violations des droits humains et l’environnement."
--Veuillez voir surtout: Investigations - Centre d'études des mondes africains (Paris, France): Colloque international "Yves Person (1925-1982), un historien de l'Afrique engagé dans son temps," du 20 au 21 juin 2013",,,à l’initiative de ses collègues et de ses anciens élèves. Ce colloque a pour objet d’effectuer un retour à Yves Person et à son oeuvre d’historien de l’Afrique alliant à une exploitation rigoureuse des archives celle des sources orales."
--Veuillez voir aussi, le blog officiel: Yves Person historien: son oeuvre sur l'Afrique et la Bretagne (Dr. Charles Becker, Marina Lafay et allii, via Hypotheses.org) - Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa (Abuja, Nigeria ; London, UK)This site includes research project news and offers free downloads of CDD reports (in PDF format) on politics in West African countries, the West African diaspora, Nigerian elections, as well as reports on gender, human rights, governance, security and development in Nigeria and West Africa; the CDD seminar series; and a newsletter.
- Centre de Suivi Ecologique pour la Gestion des Ressources Naturelles (CSE) (Dakar, Sénégal)"... CSE est créé par les pouvoirs publics sénégalais, avec l'assistance du Programme des Nations Unies pour la Région soudano-sahélienne (UNSO) ... La création de ce Centre entre dans la panoplie de mesures mises en oeuvre depuis les années 70 pour maîtriser les problèmes de la sécheresse et de la désertification ... L'application de techniques de pointe a permis au CSE d'effectuer depuis 1987 le suivi différents paramètres liés à la végétation, aux feux de brousse, à la pluviométrie, à l'agriculture et au sylvo-pastoralisme. De même, le CSE se positionne de plus en plus dans la fourniture de produits et services de systéme d'information géographique basés sur la cartographie de l'occupation du sols, la création de bases de données environnementales, etc."
- Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (2015). Compiled by Paul Newman. Third edition. -- Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Libraries. 2015. IUScholar Works.
- 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)
- CODESRIA is 'a pan-African, non-governmental organisation, set up in 1973. Its constituencies are African research institutes, social science faculties of African universities as well as professional organisations. It has an observer status and a collaboration agreement with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).'
- Page d'accueil = Home page
- Publications and communications, including CODESRIA online journals: CODESRIA bulletin. (Online) --and-- Africa development. (Online)
- Monographs, Policy Briefs, and Working Papers
- Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations Sponsored by CODESRIA, 1988-2015
- CILSS--Comité permanent inter-états de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)Ce site offre les informations sur les diverses activités du CILSS et par les neuf état-membres de la zone sahelienne, une liste des publications qui ont paru, avec quelques rapports en ligne.
--Bases de données: pesticides, technologies, et institutions - Club du Sahel et de l'Afrique de l'Ouest = Sahel and West Africa Club (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on West Africa = Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques; Paris, France)
- "Le Club du Sahel: c'est un réseau informel mais structuré au sein duquel les donateurs et les administrations sahéliennes ont pris l'habitude de communiquer, afin d'augmenter l'efficacité de leurs actions communes. La fondation du Club fut entérinée par les hauts représentants des donateurs et, au même moment, par les ministres sahéliens réunis à Dakar en 1976."
- Toutes les publications de SWAC
- Africapolis: Visualise Urbanisation in Africa (2018) (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."
- European Union -- Coton ACP
- SWAC--Coton en Afrique de l'Ouest
- Voir aussi: Coton africain et les médias ci-dessous
- Conférence des Ministres de l'Agriculture de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (CMA/AOC) (Dakar, Sénégal)"[Créée en 1991] CMA/AOC est une organisation inter-gouvernementale qui regroupe les Ministres de l'Agriculture et/ou de l'Elevage des 20 pays membres d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre."
- Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain Pour la Recherche et le Développement Agricole = West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (Dakar, Sénégal)"[CORAF, qui a été créé en 1987 à l'origine sous une autre dénomination]...regroupe actuellement les Systèmes nationaux de recherche agricoles de 21 pays francophones, anglophones et lusophones de l'Afrique de l'ouest et du Centre."
- Coton africain et l'OMC dans les médias = African cotton and the WTO in the media
- abcBurkina -- Actualités sur le coton, 2001-2011 (SEDELAN--Le Service d'Edition en Langues Nationales, Koudougou, Burkina Faso)
- Club du Sahel sur le Coton European Union-Africa (Voir ci-dessus)
- International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development = Centre international pour le commerce et le développement durable: Cotton and Africa (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Oxfam International on Cotton and Africa--Oxfam International on US cotton subsidies and the impact on Africa (and other cotton news)
--Pricing farmers out of cotton: the costs of World Bank reforms in Mali. (March 2007)
Oxfam briefing paper; no. 90
--Impacts of reductions in US cotton subsidies on West African cotton producers (June 2007) - International Cotton Advisory Committee
- Dagaare--Northern and Southern of West Africa
- "The Dagara and their neighbors (Burkina Faso and Ghana)" by Richard Kuba and Carola Lentz (University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) ; vol. 7 (2001).
- "The Dagara and their neighbors (Burkina Faso and Ghana)" by Richard Kuba and Carola Lentz (University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online) ; vol. 7 (2001).
- Diola Language and Culture (Senegal and Guinea-Bissau)
- Au-Senegal.com: Aline Sitoé Diatta, reine et prêtresse, héroïne de la résistance casamançaise (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Cap-Skirring.com : Les Diolas (Sénégal)
- Live Lingua Project: US Peace Corps Jola Courses (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Dogon Niger Lobi Photographic Albums (Huib Blom, Switzerland)An extensive collection of travel photographs of people, landscapes, and cultural sites among the Dogon and the Lobi of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana; plus images from along the Niger River in Mali. Note: individual photos are labelled, but there are no explanatory captions.
- Ebola Virus in West Africa and Elsewhere
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University (The Netherlands): Information Portal on the Ebola Outbreak in Africa (2014): information links mostly for Dutch research community and the public
- BBC News on Ebola Virus--updates (2018-2021) (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
--See: "Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: first deaths since 2016." (February 14, 2021)
--See also: BBC News "Ebola Outbreak" (January 2016) - Beyond Niamey (USA): "Multilingual extension in Africa: The response to Ebola" ...and related articles (November 2014-May 2016) Blog
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia, USA): Ebola Virus Disease
- Columbia University, National Center for Disaster Preparedness: Ebola Perspectives (2014) (New York)
- Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (2016) (UK)"Anthropologists providing advice on how to engage with crucial socio-cultural and political dimensions of the Ebola outbreak and build locally-appropriate interventions."
- Médecins Sans Frontières (Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium):
-- Urgence Ebola: dossier et les actualités
-- Épidémie d'Ébola en Afrique de l'Ouest (septembre 2014) - Réseau Ouest Africain Anthropologie des Epidémies Emergentes (2014-2018) (via OpenEdition; Paris, France)"[Créé en septembre 2014 par des anthropologues et d'autres chercheurs en sciences sociales]...lorsque l’épidémie a touché 5 pays (Guinée, Sierra Léone, Libéria, Nigéria, Sénégal). Ils ont étendu le réseau au Mali, Niger, Ghana, Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroun, Burkina Faso et Guinée Bissau pour développer l’analyse des effets sociaux de la lutte contre l’épidémie dans les pays voisins."
- United Nations on Ebola Crisis (New York, USA)
- UN Department of Public Information: Global Ebola Response (2014-2015) : news and related links
- United States. Department of Health & Human Services: Ebola Outbreak 2014 Information Resources (Wahsington, DC)
- United States. The White House: The Administrations's Response to Ebola (2014-2015) (Washington, DC)
- The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
- Ebola news reports--Current (2021)
- "The Secret to Curing West Africa from Ebola," by Paul Farmer (Jan. 16, 2015); plus links to related articles on Ebola
- "Map: The Africa without Ebola," November 3, 2014
- World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland):
--Ebola Virus Disease--Current (2021)
--Ebola Fact Sheet (February 12, 2018)
--Global Alert & Response: Ebola Virus Disease
--Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Reports, August 2014 to December 2015
- ELAN--Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Paris, France)
- "L’objectif de l’Initiative ELAN-Afrique est de promouvoir dans huit pays africains sub-sahariens (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Mali, Niger, RD Congo, Sénégal) l’usage conjoint des langues africaines et de la langue française dans l’enseignement primaire, en particulier en soutenant les huit ministères de l’éducation..."
- Fulfulde-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Mandingue-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Songhay-Zarma-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Wolof-Français Bi-Grammaire
- ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States = Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Official Website (Abuja, Nigeria; via Community Computer Centre, Lomé, Togo)This site -- in English or in French -- offers information on the ECOWAS Secretariat, member states, activities, and current news on the West Africa region.
- ECOWAS--Economic Community of West African States In Brief (The International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC)Contact information and a very brief summary of ECOWAS as an organization.
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Official Website (Abuja, Nigeria; via Community Computer Centre, Lomé, Togo)
- Election management bodies in West Africa : a comparative study of the contribution of electoral commissions to the strengthening of democracy. [Compiled by] Ismaila Madior Fall ... [et al.]. (Dakar : Open Society Foundations ; South Africa : distrib. by African Minds, c2012)
- FESPACO 2021: 27th Edition of the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, October 16-23, 2021 (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
The official site in English: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year." The site includes information about award-winning films from previous festival years. - Forum International de Dakar sur la Paix et la Sécurité en Afrique (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Organisé par Le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et des Sénégalais de l’extérieur et le Centre des Hautes Etudes de Défense et de Sécurité. Le premier objectif: "Instaurer un rendez-vous international annuel qui rassemble tous les acteurs et experts africains et internationaux concernés par les questions de paix et sécurité en Afrique."
- 8ème Forum international de Dakar sur la paix et la sécurité en Afrique, du 24 au 25 octobre 2022---Programme
- Actes de la 7ème Forum international de Dakar sur la Paix et la Sécurité en Afrique, du 6 au 7 décembre 2021. 120 pages en format PDF
- France. Agence française de développement: Publications sur l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Paris)
- France. Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances sur l'Afrique (Trésor Direction Générale, Paris)
- Articles sur la Banque africaine de développement
- Trésor sur la zone CFA franc (2021)
- Trésor-Info: Objectif-Afrique (2010): les actualités hebdomadaires
- Trésor International -- Rechercher par pays sur la carte
- Coopération monétaire: la Zone franc
- France. Ministère de L'Europe et des Affaires Étrangères : Afrique (2021) (Paris)
- Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (Québec, Canada)
- "...organe subsidiaire de l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, est né en 1988..[et] dénommé jusqu'au 31 janvier 2013 l'Institut de l'énergie et de l'enivronnement de la Francophonie.
- IFDD Publications
- For Fula, Fulani, or Fulfulde, see: Fula Language on the Internet
- webFuuta / Fuuta-Jalon (2018) (Tierno S. Bah et al., Maryland, USA)Un recueil des textes intégrals...en français...sur l'Islam et les Peuls: une collection des articles et des extraits de livres en français et en anglais, les tables de matières, et des liens à plusieurs sites sur les Peuls dans la région du Sénégal, Mauritanie, Guinée, et les autres pays du Sahel.
--Veuillez voir aussi: webPulaaku - "Gambian Studies Series", by Professor David P. Gamble. Part of The Gambia: Signature Program (St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD)
- Selected works by David Gamble, including Senegambian folktales; Fula, Mandinka, and Wolof grammar and glossaries; oral histories; and bibliographies on The Gambia. All works are downloadable in PDF format.
- Global Water Partnership on West Africa (In association with the IUCN--The World Conservation Union; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)The website features news and reports from various projects and major conferences on water resource management. "The Global Water Partnership [headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden] is a working partnership among all those involved in water management: government agencies, public institutions, private companies, professional organizations, multilateral development agencies and others committed to the Dublin-Rio principles."
- Gorée Institute (Gorée, Sénégal)
- "...a Pan African civil society organisation dedicated to the promotion of peaceful, self-reliant, and open societies in Africa through the elaboration of new paradigms, the strengthening of networks, of institutions and of people, the optimisation of the continent's 'creative' human and cultural potential and its financial resources."
- Elections, paix et sécurité en Afrique de l'Ouest. (2010) 124 pages en format PDF
- The socio-cultural and security implications of instability in Guinea on the sub-region. (2010)
by Abderrahmane Ngaïdé ...[et al]. 123 pages in PDF format - One who kills an ant carefully may discover its intestines: documenting the experience of West African mediators. (2010) 102 pages in PDF format
- La Grande Muraille Verte = The Great Green Wall
- Agence panafricaine de la Grande Muraille Verte (Nouakchott, Mauritania)"L’Initiative Africaine de la Grande Muraille Verte (IAGMV) de Dakar à Djibouti décidée en 2005 par les Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement des Etats au Sud du Sahara et endossée en 2007 par l’Union Africaine, constitue la solution et le modèle efficients de ces Etats face à l’enjeu environnemental et climatique."
--Veuillez voir surtout: Textes et documents officials -et- Planification
- La Grande Muraille Verte: capitalisation des recherches et valorisation des savoirs locaux. (2012) Sous la direction de Abdoulaye Dia et Robin Duponnois. IRD Éditions. -- Marseille, France: Institut de recherche pour le développement, 2012. --via OpenEdition books
--Veuillez voir aussi: Le Projet Majeur Grande Muraille Verte de l’Afrique. (2010) - Oxford Research Encyclopedias--Climate Science: "The Great Green Wall in the Sahel," by Cheikh Mbow, August 2017. (Oxford, UK)
- Agence panafricaine de la Grande Muraille Verte (Nouakchott, Mauritania)
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
International Conference on "West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century," September 13-15, 2018, Harvard Divinity School. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
-- Preliminary program - Hausa Language Web Pages
- African Storybook (Saide, Braamfontein, South Africa)Search under "Read" for Hausa titles. Since 2013, a South African-based NGO publishes and promotes the dissemination of children's story books in African languages. As of early 2018, there are 58 e-books in Hausa from Nigeria -and- 28 from Niger.
- BBC World Service in Hausa (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
- Boston University, African Studies Center---African Proverbs Project: Hausa Proverbs (Boston, Massachusetts)"The project team has gathered, edited and produced content for a multimedia instructional website for advanced Hausa based upon ten common proverbs/sayings. The website, featuring professional-quality video and audio of the languages in authentic situations, is a unique resource to help students to develop proficiency and cultural competence in Hausa."
- Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (2015). Compiled by Paul Newman. (Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana) See above
- Columbia University -- Hausa Resources
-- Hausa Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia University Libraries (2023) - Deutsche Welle News Summaries and Radio Broadcasts in Hausa (Bonn, Germany)
- Gumel.Com: Barka da zuwa filin Hausa (Mohammed Hashim Gumel, USA)
A web site entirely in Hausa, with news from Nigeria (in English, from Nigerian newspapers or e-mail reports), Hausa radio program files, cultural information, and related links. - Hausa : basic course. (1963) By Carleton T. Hodge and Ibrahim Umaru. [Washington, DC: Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, 1963 ; 399 pages] PDF format. (FSI Language Courses, USA)
--Audio lessons - HausaFilms.TV -- Kannywood, Fina-finai, Hausa Movies, TV and Celebrities (Nigeria)Begun in 2011, a wiki-based directory web site for Hausa films, information about films--synopsis, directors, actors, etc., with excerpts of films found on YouTube.com and elsewhere.
- Hausa Home Page (University of California, Los Angeles)This site offers basic information and links on Hausa language and culture, including an annotated bibliography and Hausar Baka Online--Videos for Hausa Language and Culture.
- Hausa Home Video Resource Centre--Blog (2016) (Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria and University of Wisconsin, Madison)Information about publications, film screenings, related web links, and other projects in the Hausa language. Note: Updates to this graduate student-run site were suspended in 2014 and briefly resumed in March 2016. As of April 2017, there have been no recent postings in at least one year.
- "Hausa Names for Plants and Trees (2007)." By Dr. Roger Blench, Kay Williamson Foundation, University of Cambridge, UK. --via Academia.edu ; 77 pages in PDF format.
- Hausa Online: Learning Hausa... (Nigeria & USA)"...a private weblog and not linked to any institution, University, or radio station." This web site features an extensive array of up-to-date links to Hausa dictionaries, grammars, e-books, and videos.
- H-Hausa Discussion Network (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)"H-Hausa is for the discussion of issues related to Hausa language, literature and culture."
- Online Bargery Hausa-English Dictionary (1934) (via Bunkyo University, Tokyo, Japan)A searchable online "dictionary" (glossary) for Hausa-English, English-Hausa translation, based on the dictionary and vocabulary by Rev. George Percy Bargery, originally published in 1934, containing over 45,000 words.
- Premium times Hausa. (Abuja, Nigeria) News
- Shamsuddeen : Hausa Dictionary and Other Resources (Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria)The site includes English, Hausa, and Arabic dictionaries and word lists, Hausa Qur'an search,"Hausa psychology"--proverbs and sayings, etc.
- United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Muhimmin Jawabin da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta bayyana game da Hakkokin Yan-adam Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (Geneva, Switzerland)
- African Storybook (Saide, Braamfontein, South Africa)
- 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-Maghrib Discussion Network (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)In English: "...aims to facilitate scholarly discussion and research about North Africa, a region that today comprises the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania." Plus, information on how to subscribe and some other Africa-related links.
- 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.
- Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples (Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada)
- Research ProjectsIncludes basic information about "Slavery, Memory, Citizenship" ; "The Nigerian Hinterland Project" (NHP) ; and Endangered Archives Programme
- Harriet Tubman newsletter. (Online) -- Toronto, Canada : York University, Department of History, 2000- (PDF files)
- African diaspora newsletter. (Online) Archive, 2000-2006 -- Toronto, Canada : York University, Department of History. (PDF files)
- Research Projects
- Historical Maps of Ghana, West Africa, and the African Continent Foundation course in African dance drumming. (C. Ladzekpo, University of California, Berkeley)
- 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."
- Le Hub Rural: Appui au développement rural en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre =
The Rural Hub: Supporting rural development in Western and Central Africa (Dakar, Sénégal)- Ce site met à la disposition du public des bases de données sur le développement rural--en format PDF; un annuaire des agences gouvernementales, des organismes privés, et des centres de recherche; en plus, un recueil des liens aux sites Web.
- Ressources en ligne = Resources online
- See also: Sahel point DOC below
- Images du passé en Afrique de l'Ouest"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."
- Institut Africaine de Gestion Urbaine (Dakar, Sénégal)"Créé en 1987, l'IAGU...a pour principale mission: appuyer les municipalités et les autorités des villes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre à renforcer leurs capacités de planification et de gestion pour améliorer la gouvernance locale ; promouvoir une gestion durable de l'environnement; et lutter contre la pauvreté."
--Veuillez voir surtout: Etudes de l'IAGU - Institut Panos -- Afrique de l'Ouest (Dakar, Senegal)
- << Informer et communiquer pour une culture de la démocratie, de la citoyenneté et de la paix. >> Sur ce site, on peut lire les nouvelles à propos des programmes du Institut en Afrique de l'Ouest et ses publications. Il y a aussi beaucoup de liens à autres sites de PANOS et ceux sur les médias.
- Migrations
- Ressources (publications)
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD - anciennement ORSTOM, Bondy, Île-de-France, France)
- Ressources documentaires de l'IRD: toutes les publications
- Bibliothèque électroniques en partenariat Greenstone Digital Library
Ce site offre plusieurs collections de texte intégral en ligne, y compris celles de la Bibliothèque centrale de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar, Sénégal); à l'Université Gaston-Berger (Saint-Louis, Sénégal;) et, à l'Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin - IRD Laboratoire de Cartographie Appliquée
Un site en construction. Sur ce site, on peut apprendre les projets et les publications du laboratoire, y compris quelques extraits des réalisations récentes: cartes du Togo (sur les indices de dégradation des sols) et de l'Afrique central et de l'ouest (sur les précipitations moyennes annuelles); et plusieurs atlases: sur les migrations ouest-africaines et sur les pêcheries thonières tropicales, et un atlas de la ville Sokodé du Nord-Togo; de plus, en cours de réalisation: un atlas de l'Extrême-Nord Cameroun.
- Institute for Security Studies: "The Silent Destruction of Senegal's Last Forests," January 17, 2019. ISS Today (Pretoria, South Africa)
- Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) for West Africa
See below. - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: West Africa Leaks. (Washington, DC)"In the region’s largest-ever journalism collaboration, reporters from 11 countries expose the financial secrets of some of West Africa’s most powerful politicians, moguls and corporations."
- International Court of Justice=Cour internationale de Justice (The Hague, The Netherlands)
- The legal arguments, judgements, and discussion surrounding the cases before the court.
- Bénin vs. Niger, 2003-
Différend frontalier = Frontier Dispute, 2003- - Republic of Guinea vs. Democratic Republic of Congo, 1999-
Ahmadou Sadio Diallo case, 1999- - Cameroon vs. Nigeria, 1994-
-- Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria = "Frontiére terrestre et maritime entre le Cameroun et le Nigéria."
-- Dec. 1998 Application Request for an Interpretation on June 11, 1998 Judgement = Demande en interprétation de l'arrêt du 11 juin 1998 - ICJ Home Page = CIJ Page d'accueil
- International Crisis Group on West Africa (Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone) (Washington, DC ; Dakar, Sénégal)
"Crisis Group's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political analysts are located within or close by countries at risk of outbreak, escalation or recurrence of violent conflict. Based on information and assessments from the field, Crisis Group produces regular analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international decision-takers."
--See also: "The Central Sahel: A Perfect Storm" (June 2015) = Le Sahel central: au coeur de la tempête - International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: Political parties in West Africa: the challenge of democratization in fragile states. (October 2007)
by Said Adejumobi. -- Stockholm: International IDEA, 2007. 64 pages in PDF format
See also: French version
- International Monetary Fund: Lake Chad Basin Commission Profile (Washington, DC)A very brief summary about the commission, established in 1964, with headquarters in N'Djamena, Chad ; plus, contact information.
- International Organization for Migration: West Africa -- Migration Issues (Geneva, Switzerland)
- International Peace Institute (New York)
Security and Development in the Sahel-Sahara (February 2013) Published in October 2013
--See also: IPI on The Sahel - International Rescue Committee (New York)The website offers information about IRC activities, selected news reports on emergency situations and conflict zones, and an extensive library of resources--SEARCH for reports on West Africa or countries of the region. 'Since 1993, the IRC provides humanitarian aid to refugees and other victims of oppression and violent conflict around the world'.
- Inter-Réseaux -- Développement Rural (Paris, France)
- Sur ce site, on peut lire les communications et les rapports de beaucoup des chercheurs qui travaillaient dans le domaine du développement et de la coopération technique en Afrique de l'Ouest et en Amérique latine depuis 1996. Voir surtout le bulletin:
- Grain de sel. (Online) -- Paris, France: Inter-Réseaux, Développement Rural, 1996-
- Inventaire des recensements et enquêtes démographiques en Afrique (CePeD--Centre Population et Développement, Université Paris Descartes, France)IREDA est une base de données des publications de plusieurs pays de l'Afrique de l'ouest et de l'Afrique centrale: Bénin; Cameroun; Congo RD; Côte d'Ivoire; Mali; et Niger.
--Veuillez voir aussi: Bibliographie générale -et- une liste de liens et des autres ressources - IPS Inter Press Service News on West Africa = Afrique de l'Ouest, l'autre information(Johannesburg, South Africa)An "alternative news agency" providing current reports [in English or in French] for the region and Africa in general.
- 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."
- Jamtan Fulani--Archive Site (Washington, DC) --via archive.isA 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.net below - Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria (Lagos, Nigeria)
- "JAAIDS Nigeria is a media-based non-governmental HIV/AIDS advocacy organisation in Nigeria." The website offers news bulletins, special reports, discussion fora, and related links on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and West Africa.
- AIDS in West Africa: Country by Country (2000) (UNAIDS data)
Country profiles (downloadable PDF) from the report prepared for the delegates of African Development Forum 2000 on HIV/AIDS.
- 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.
- Krannert Art Museum, Permanent Collections : Africa--Masks (Senufo, Dan, Yoruba) & Headdress (Bamana) from West Africa. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- 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 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)
- 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."
- 12th Internatonal Conference on Mande Studies--"Towards a Decolonization of Knowledges in West Africa: History, Actors, and Productions," June 25-30, 2024, Bamako, Mali ***Call for Papers ; the deadline for proposals is December 15, 2023
- 11th International MANSA Conference -- "Beyond Crisis and Insecurity: Cultural Creativity, Popular Struggle, and Social Change in West Africa," June 2021, Uppsala, Sweden
- Proceedings of 9th International Conference of Mande Studies, June 18-22, 2014, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Proccedings of 8th International Conference of Mande Studies, June 27-July 1, 2011, Bamko, Mali
- MANSA Membership Directory (2012)
NOTE: access to more recent directory information requires membership payment.
- Mandebala.net (Todd Martin, York University, Canada)A directory of information about the bala or balafon, musicians, and related Mande cultural history.
- Mandenkan. (Online). -- Paris: LLACAN--Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire, 1981-Un bulletin spécialisé des études linguistiques mandé...paraît environ 2 fois par an.
- Speak Manding - An ka taa (2023) (Dr. Coleman Donaldson, USA)An ka taa is a website featuring free lessons on Bambara or Dioula.
- "A Preliminary Report of Existing Information on the Manding Languages of West Africa" (2004). By Terrence D. Sullivan. -- Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2004. (PDF format)
- Mandinka and Wolof Resources (Momodou Camara, DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen)
- This webpage consists of links to downloadable dictionaries and grammars in PDF format. See also: Word Search and the larger The Gambia Resource Page.
- See also: N'ko -- The Mandingo Language Site below.
- Mandinka Language Work Book. Written by Adam Njie, Bakary Camara, Muhammadou M.S. Bah ; edited by Sarjo Dumbuya. -- Washington, DC: Peace Corps/The Gambia, c2007. 83 pages in WORD format
- Mano River Union (Freetown, Sierra Leone)As of December 2017, this site is offline. The site contained recent news, some documents, and very basic information only. "The Mano River Union (MRU) is an international association established in 1973 between Liberia and Sierra Leone, with the objective of sub-regional economic integration. In 1980, Guinea joined the union."
--See also: WATHI Think Tank on "Mano River Union" (2017)
--"Countdown launched at 9th Mano River Union meeting on neglected diseases," October 23, 2016 Cross-talk (Blog of "Countdown: Calling time on neglected diseases")
--"Manu River Union meeting, Conakry, Guinea," July 7, 2016 The Patriotic Vanguard. (Online) - Media Foundation for West Africa (Legon, Accra, Ghana)This site --in English or in French-- features current news and alerts on press freedom issues in the region. "The MFWA seeks to advance the development of free mass media and of a culture of free expression using advocacy strategies, networking and collaboration..."
- Méga-Tchad (CNRS/LLACAN, Nanterre et Villejuif, France; Universität Bayreuth, Germany; School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, UK)
- 'Depuis 1984, Méga-Tchad était un réseau international de recherches pluridisciplinaires sur l'histoire et l'évolution des sociétés dans le bassin du lac Tchad.'
- Blog Méga-Tchad
- Références bibliographiques, 1961-2019
- Bulletin Méga-Tchad. (Online), 1986-2010
- Hommage à Claude Meillassoux par Bernard Schlemmer (2005). H-West Africa, H-Net Discussion Networks. (Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
Un essai avec une longue bibliographie!
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, January 30-August 23, 2020 (New York)
- Le Monde Diplomatique sur l'Afrique de l'Ouest, 1991--: (Rechercher par pays pour trouver plus des articles sur l'Afrique de l'Ouest.)
- Sahara-Sahel: movements and routes (March 2012)
- Touaregs, 1997-2008 -- et -- 2009-2012
- Zone franche
- Mouvement contre les armes légères en Afrique de l'Ouest (MALAO) (Dakar, Sénégal; via RAFAL--Réseau africain francophone sur les armes légères, Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité, Bruxelles, Belgique)"[MALAO] offre à la communauté des internautes et des artisans de paix un espace d’échange d’expériences, de partage de connaissances et d’acquisitions d’armes pour lutter contre celles dites légères et de petit calibre." Voir surtout:
-- "Lutte antimine et ALPC: la MALAO sur le terrain en Casamance." (novembre 2009) (via Bibliomines, Geneva, Switzerland)
- The National Museum of African Art, The Smithsonian Institution: "Caravans of Gold, Fragment in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa." (Washington, DC) Online Exhibition, due to COVID-19 restrictions.
- Nilo-Saharan Newsletter = Informations nilo-sahariennes (via CNRS-LLACAN, Villejuif, France)
- Ce site --en français ou en anglais-- est consacré aux études et recherches concernant les langues nilo-sahariennes, qui sont parlées au centre et à l'est du continent africain. Vous trouverez ici: un "who's who" (provisoire) des études nilo-sahariennes; une liste d'institutions (universités, centres de recherche, éditeurs...) en relation avec le domaine; des annonces de colloques, etc.
- Liste de publications
- 10th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium = 10ème Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne, Paris, France, 22-24 août 2007
- N'ko -- The Mandingo Language Site (Mamadi Baba Diané, Washington, DC)A site --in Mandekan in N'ko script, with Arabic and European language translation-- about the N'ko script, with links to the major web sites on the subject in France, Belgium, United States, and Africa. There is also a list of books published in the N'ko script.
- N'Ko Institute of America (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)An English language site offering an introduction to the Mandekan language written in an Arabic script, with information on publications and related web sites.
- The Oasis Initiative: Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel (University of California, Berkeley)"We are focused on three strategies critical for the region: 1) educating and empowering adolescent girls and women, 2) expanding access to voluntary family planning, and 3) adapting agriculture to climate change, in order to improve the well being of families in the Sahel region."
--See especially: Resources: information on publications, online reports, and related web links - Observatoire Sahara et Sahel = Sahel and Sahara Observatory (Tunis, Tunisie; via UNESCO, Paris, France)"L'OSS est une organisation internationale autonome...ses membres sont des pays d'Afrique et d'Europe, quatre organisations sous-régionales, des organisations régionales, des agences du système des Nations-unies et une ONG internationale."
--Projects: Climate ; Land ; Water
--Le site comprend aussi les Publications de l'OSS - OilVoice--West Africa (London, UK)Since 2002, this news service has offered oil & gas industry news, jobs, and event information. However, the searchable free access archive only covers the past year.
- OMVS: Organisation sur la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Le site est censé offrir les renseignements essentiels des activités et des projets de cet ONG et des états membres (Guinée, Mali, Mauritanie, et Sénégal).
- Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) (Dakar, Senegal ; Abuja, Nigeria ; Monrovia, Liberia)
- "...covers 18 countries, which include the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as Cameroon, Chad, and Mauritania. It supports civil society communities and advocates to governments on issues of governance; law, justice and human rights; public health and development; information, communication technology, and media."
- Migration and deportation in West Africa: developing effective remedies. (Abuja, March 9-10, 2008) Edited by Sam Amadi -- Dakar, Senegal: OSIWA, 2010. 129 pages in PDF format
- Democratic recession in West Africa: challenges to revivalism. (2008) Edited by Gbenga Gbesan
-- Dakar, Senegal: OSIWA, 2010. 89 pages in PDF format - WACSI--West Africa Civil Society Institute (Accra, Ghana)
"...to strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of CSOs." See especially: WACSI eNewsletter - See also: West Africa Democracy Radio below
- Ouestaf.com (Africa Communication Consulting, Dakar, Sénégal)"Le but ultime d'Ouestaf.com est de servir de principal support d'informations sur l'Afrique de l'ouest à tous les décideurs, acteurs et à toute personnes intéressée par le développement et la vie de la sous région." Le site offre une archive des rapports d'actualité depuis 2006.
- Ouest-TV: la chaine régionale Ouest Africaine = The West African Regional Channel (African Televsion News, Dakar, Sénégal)Un portail au 14 programmes de télévision en anglais et en français sur les actualités en Afrique de l'Ouest, au reste de l'Afrique, et au reste du monde.
--Veuillez voir surtout: Archive officielle de l'Ouest-TV sur YouTube.com
Remarquez: il semble qu'on fait les mises à jour une fois par mois seulement. - Ounjougou : Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique (Laboratoire Archéologie et Peuplement de l’Afrique et l'Unité d’Anthropologie, Université de Genève, Suisse)Le projet s’intéresse à l'archéologie du peuplement humain dans la Vallée de la Falémé au Sénégal, au Pays Dogon, Mali, et au Parc national des îles Eotilé en Côte d'Ivoire: "[Ce programme] a pour principal objectif l’étude des interactions entre populations humaines et variations climatiques et environnementales." Le site comprend une longue liste de publications depuis 1995 et une autre liste de mémoires de thèse et de master.
- Oxfam International on West Africa: Selected Issues (USA and UK)
- Reports on Benin and other West African countries
- Impacts of reductions in US cotton subsidies on West African cotton producers (June 2007) -- Boston, Massachusetts: Oxfam America, 2007. PDF format.
- Pricing farmers out of cotton: the costs of World Bank reforms in Mali. (March 2007) Oxfam briefing paper; no. 90. -- London, UK: Oxfam International, 2007.
- Cotton
- PANOS Global South Network--Panos London Archives: At the Desert's Edge: Oral Histories from the Sahel Edited by Nigel Cross and Rhiannon Barker. (London, UK)An e-book version of the 1992 book of translated interviews from Sahelian inhabitants across West and Eastern Africa during the 1980s.
- 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.]
- Public Eye: Dirty Diesel: How Swiss Traders Flood Africa With Toxic Fuels. (September 2016). -- Laussane, Switzerland: Public Eye, 2016. --via issuu.com ; 164 pages.
- For Pulaar or Peul, see: Fula Language on the Internet
- Research ICT Africa: Publications on ICT Policy, Access, and Usage in Africa (2005-2012) (LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)The countries covered by surveys and reports include Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- ROCARE--Réseau Ouest et Centre Africain de Recherche en Education = Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (Bamako, Mali)
- "[Créé en 1989] Le ROCARE compte plusieurs centaines de chercheurs dans 14 pays membres dont 10 francophones et 4 anglophones : Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambie, Ghana, Guinée, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigeria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, et Togo...Le siège de la coordination régionale se situe à l'Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée (ISFRA) à Bamako."
- Bulletin du ROCARE/ERNWACA. (Online) -- Bamako: ROCARE/ERNWACA, 2004-
- ICT and changing mindsets in education = repenser l'éducation à l'aide des TIC edited by Kathryn Toure, Therese Mungah Shalo Tchombe, & Thierry Karsenti. -- Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; Bamako, Mali : ROCARE/ERNWACA, 2008.
- Bibliothèque numérique du ROCARE/ERNWACA
- ROPPA--Réseau des organisations paysannes et des producteurs agricoles de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)A ce site, on peut lire les actualités et plusieurs rapports à propos des activités de l'organisation: les actes des ateliers, des colloques; et les propositions en français ou en anglais. << Le ROPPA a formellement été fondé en juillet 2000 lors d'une rencontre à Cotonou qui a rassemblé ... des organisations ou cadres de concertation de 10 pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faos, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambie, Guinée, Guinée-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Togo)....et l'ambition est d'accueillir des organisations paysannes de l'ensemble des pays de la CEDEAO...>>
- Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung--West Africa (Dakar, Senegal)The official web site for the research program of the RLS in West Africa ---since 2018, with news, information on activities, and research reports on youth and politics, social justice, climate change, peace and conflict, and natural resources.
- Sahel atlas of changing landscapes: tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition. (2012) -- Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Program, 2012. 106 pages in PDF format
- Sahel point DOC: anthologie du développement au Sahel -- Paris, France: UNESCO Division de l'Information et de l'Informatique, 1999. --via New Zealand Digital Library, University of Waikato, New Zealand.Une petite archive de documents numérisés fournies par la Banque Mondiale, Centre Songhaï, OECD--Club du Sahel, CILSS, FAO, PNUD, et par quelques autres organisations sur la zone sahelienne.
- Sahel Research Group (Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville)"We study politics, religion, security, trade, literature and languages in the West African Sahel...Our focus is primarily on the six Francophone countries of the region—Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad."
--See especially: Resources: Weekly News Briefs, Websites, Publications ; Trans-Saharan Elections Project (2013) - Sahel weather and crop situation. (Online). -- Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization, Global Information and Early Warning System, 1995-SWCS is issued by the FAO/GIEWS every month throughout the growing season (June to October). The report 'describes weather conditions, pest infestations and crop prospects in the Sahel, a drought-prone zone'. Current and back issues.
- Lamin Sanneh, 1942-2019
- Christianity Today. (Carol Stream, Illinois): "Remembering Lamin Sanneh, the World's Leading Expert on Christianity and Islam in Africa," January 8, 2019.
- Eerdmans Publishing/YouTube.com: "Interview with Lamin Sanneh. (January 22, 2013)
- Yale University, Divinity School: Professor Lamin Sanneh, 1942-2019 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
- Soninké language and culture (via Columbia University Libraries)
- La Voie Tidjaniya (Tidjaniya Zaouiya of Europe, Lyon, France)Un portail pour les fidèles: 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
- Center for Research Libraries: Mamma Haidara Memorial Library Project -- Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu (CRL/Cooperative Africana Microform Project, Chicago, Illinois, in cooperation with Northwestern University Libraries, Evanston, Illinois)
- Ford Foundation Report: "Secrets of the Sahara" (Summer 2003). (New York) --via Yumpu.com
- Google Arts & Culture: The Digital Archive of "The Timbuktu Manuscripts" (USA)Explore 69 digitized books on this website. "Over 40,000 ancient manuscripts (pages) from private collections and libraries in Timbuktu have been digitized, curated, and made publicly available."
--See also: "Mali Magic": Exploring Mali’s culture: manuscripts, music, monuments, and modern art (2022) - The Library of Congress: Islamic Manuscripts from Mali Collection (Washington, DC)The collection features 32 manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Memorial Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, in Timbuktu. See also: "Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu, Mali" Exhibition, July--September 2003.
- The meanings of Timbuktu. (2008) Edited by Shamil Jeppie & Souleymane Bachir Diagne. -- Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA; Cape Town, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2008. 416 pages. Each part in PDF format.
- SAVAMA-DCI (Timbuktu, Mali; Dakar, Senegal)"...a non-governmental organization that has a mission to protect and safeguard Mali's ancient manuscripts consisting of private libraries that own important historical manuscripts that document the rich legacy of West Africa's cultural and intellectual history."
- "Timbuktu : a bibliography" (2001) by John O. Hunwick. Sudanic Africa: a journal of historical sources. (Online). Vol. 12 (2001). -- Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen, 1990-- (PDF format)
- Timbuktu: "In fabled city at the end of the earth, a treasury of ancient manuscripts." by Xan Rice.
The Guardian. (Online): July 2, 2007. (London, UK) ***Includes an audio slideshow.
- Tombouctou Manuscripts Project (University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa)
- This site offers a history of the project, recent project news, information about publications, and two full text e-books. "...[The project] first conceptualised in 2002, was officially established in 2003 to research and document manuscript tradition in Africa. Over the past seven years a Project team has been involved in the study of manuscript tradition in Africa, including manuscript translation, digitalisation and historical studies of book and library traditions."
- Timbuktu : script and scholarship: a catalogue of selected manuscripts from the exhibition. Edited by Lalou Meltzer, Lindsay Hooper, Gerald Klinghardt. Prepared by the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project and Iziko Social History Collections Department. -- Cape Town: Iziko, Museums of Cape Town; Pretoria: Department of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa; Timbuktu, Mali: Ahmed Baba, Institut des Hautes Etudes et de Recherchers Islamiques, 2008. 136 pages in PDF format
- From Istanbul to Timbuktu -- Ink routes. Prepared by the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project. Cape Town: TMP, University of Cape Town, 2009. 72 pages in PDF format
- 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.
- UEMOA: Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)Sur ce site, on peut trouver l'agenda de l'UEMOA, les actualités, les communiques de presse et les publications, et un lien au site Web << Investir en zone franc >> pour chaque pays. Voir aussi, le site de la Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement ci-dessus.
- UNECA--United Nations Economic Commission for Africa/Sub-Regional Office for West Africa (Niamey, Niger)
- All Publications from ECA/SRO-WA
- Harnessing agricultural potential for growth and development in West Africa. (March 2012) -- Niamey, Niger: ECA/SRO-WA, 2012. 87 pages in PDF format
- Recent economic and social developments in West Africa and prospects for 2012. (February 2012) -- Niamey, Niger: ECA/SRO-WA, c2013. 102 pages in PDF format
- United Nations Environment Programme and World Agroforestry Centre: Climate change and variability in the Sahel region: impacts and adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector (2006) (Nairobi, Kenya)
58 pages in PDF format - UNESCO WebWorld: Cartes Postales d'Afrique = African Postcards, 1890-1930 ("Memory of the World" Programme, Paris)The web site features samples from the UNESCO-sponsored, digitization project of postcards from West Africa, including colonial Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey (Bénin), and Gambia.
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on West and Central Africa At a glance. (New York)
Basic information, statistics, maps, & indicators. - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (Formerly UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs)
- OCHA Home Page (General)
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime--Regional Office for West and Central Africa (Dakar, Senegal)
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights -- West Africa Regional Office (Dakar, Senegal)"...established in 2008 to help bridge gaps in human rights implementation at the national and regional level...tasked with increasing the capacity of the human rights components of peace missions and establishing cooperative relations with countries where OHCHR has no presence such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Mali and Nigeria."
- UNOWAS: United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (New York)Documents, press releases, and news from the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in West Africa. "UNOWAS is the first UN regional peace-building office in the world, with a mandate to harmonize UN activities and promote the integration of a subregional, as opposed to country-by-country, approach."
- USAID: United States Agency for International Development on West Africa. (Washington, DC)
- Includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, & Togo.
- USAID Regional Mission in West Africa (Accra, Ghana)
- USAID Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET)
Information on the Sahel--West Africa, East Africa, & Southern Africa. - FEWS NET West Africa
Current news and analysis of the food security situation in Western Africa -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources. - Africa Data Portal
"...provides access to spatial data, satellite imagery, and other data and graphic products in support of the FEWS NET project. - "Mapping the Exposure of Socioeconomic and Natural Systems in West Africa to Coastal Climate Stressors." (October 2014). 83 pages in PDF format. -- Washington, DC: USAID, 2014. --via Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, New York.
- USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
Search the entire database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on the countries of West African Sahel.
- United States Geological Survey--Earthshots (USGS, Earth Resources Observation Systems Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
- Satellite photographs of environmental change in Africa and elsewhere; explanatory notes and useful links to other information sites.
- Home Page (General)
- Lake Chad, West Africa (1972-2007)
- Rosso, Mauritania (1972, 1990)
- Saloum, Sénégal (1972-1992)
- 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.
- West African Civil Society Institute (WASCI) (Accra, Ghana)"...established by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) in 2005 to reinforce the capacities of civil society in the sub-region. The Institute became operational in July 2007."
-- WASCI Publications: e-newsletter, WASCI series, issue papers, research reports, etc. - West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) (Dakar, Sénégal)"...une radio de la sous région ouest africaine qui a pour but de faciliter l'échange d’informations pour le développement entre les pays membres de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, en plus du Tchad, du Cameroun et de la Mauritanie...Initiée par l’Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), la WADR se veut le centre d'un réseau de radios publiques, privées et communautaires."
--Veuillez voir aussi le site en anglais. - West African Arabic Manuscript Project & Database (Prof. Charles C. Stewart and Bruce Stewart Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; University of California, Berkeley)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 Institute for Financial and Economic Management (Lagos, Nigeria)[Established in 1996]...the principal objective of WAIFEM is to build capacity for macroeconomic and financial management in the countries of its member central banks: The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
- West African Archaeological Association (via University of Ghana, Legon)
- [Founded in Nigeria in 1976] The principal objectives of the W.A.A.A. are the promotion of the West African archaeological study, to reinforce it with a multi-field approach of the West African natural and cultural inheritance."
- Programme : 15th Colloquium, West African Archaeological Association--"Archaeology of West Africa Without Borders," July 10-14, 2017, University of Ghana, Legon
- West African Linguistic Society = Société de Linguistique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (via University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria)"WALS is a non-profitable association of academics, research workers, field workers and teachers drawn from the West African sub-region. These countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo...Currently we have members resident in North America (Canada and USA), European Union (France, Netherlands, Spain, UK etc)."
--See also: Journal of West African languages. (Online): 1964 to present - West African Monetary Institute (Accra, Ghana)"The objectives of the WAMI is to establish a common central bank with a single currency for the economic prosperity of the West African Monetary Zone." The site feature ***current and recent news, plus...statistical data, and publications from 2001 to 2011; and, some data for 2013.
- West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) (Accra, Ghana)The site --in English or in French-- includes recent news, policy reports (PDF format), and information on the organization's activities. "Work began in 1990 to establish a regional network of peacebuilding initiatives in West Africa. This arose as a result of the Liberia civil war, which necessitated the creation of a regional peace intervention force. Religious and civil society groups were mobilized to collectively participate in active peacebuilding."
- West African Research Association (WARA) (via African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
- "The West African Research Association (WARA) was founded in 1989, for the purpose of promoting scholarly exchange and collaboration between American and West African researchers."
- West African Research Center, Dakar, Senegal
- WASCAL--West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (Accra, Ghana)The website offers information about research projects and lists various publications, with some excerpts.
"...a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany."
--See especially: Publications, listed under "Research and Services"
--WASCAL Data Discovery Portal - WATHI : le think tank citoyen (Dakar, Sénégal)Depuis 2014: "WATHI se donne pour mission de mettre à la disposition de l’Afrique de l’Ouest un cadre permanent permettant à tous ceux qui le souhaitent de participer à la production et l’échange de connaissances et d’idées et de contribuer, chacun à sa manière, à la consolidation des Etats, des institutions et des sociétés d’Afrique de l’Ouest."
--Veuillez voir surtout: Débat ; Tribune ; Choix de WATHI - 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.
- Wolof Language on the Internet (via Columbia University Libraries)
- 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.
- Women, Law and Development in Africa -- West Africa = Femmes, Droit et Développement en Afrique -- Afrique de l'Ouest (Lomé, Togo)"Created in 1990 [and headquartered in Harare], WiLDAF/FeDDAF...to promote and strengthen strategies that link law and development for the emergence of a culture for the exercise and respect of women's rights in Africa. ...It brings together 500 organizations and 1200 individuals who, spread in 27 countries."
- World Agroforestry Centre: West and Central Africa (Yaoundé, Cameroun; Nairobi, Kenya)Research and project news, with links to open access journal articles and reports. "...to generate science-based knowledge about the diverse roles that trees play in agricultural landscapes, and to use its research to advance policies and practices, and their implementation, that benefit the poor and the environment."--See especially: WAC Publications Repository
- Yoruba Language on the Internet (via Columbia University Libraries)