African Studies: Web Sites
African Union- The African Union is the successor organization to the Organization of African Unity. Founded in July 2002, and modeled after the European Union, its goals are to help promote democracy, human rights and development across Africa, especially increasing foreign investment through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) program.
- Africa south of the Sahara selected Internet resources
- Extensive listing of links to resources about Africa, including news, history, social studies, sports, literature, business, music, and more. Organized by subject and region, with useful annotations.
- African studies Internet resources
- Selection of Internet resources about African studies, including directories of scholars, libraries and book dealers, electronic journals and newspapers, and resources about Africa organized by country, organization, and topic.
- African studies WWW (U. Penn)
- Comprehensive African studies site maintained by the African Studies Center at the Univerisity of Pennsylvania. Includes links to country-specific information, news, K-12 resources, and African American sites.
- Center for African Studies (Standford University)
- The Center for African Studies (CAS) is an exciting resource for undergraduates at Stanford University. The Center publishes a quarterly newsletter.
- Internet African history sourcebook
- Collection of primary and secondary sources dealing with African history.
- AfricaFocus sights and sounds of a continent /
- A source of multimedia (slides, photographs, sound files) on African life. Accessible by collection, subject, or country; through an interactive atlas; or keyword or multiple fields
- African and African American Collections
- Provides access to African and African-American Collections on the University of California, Berkeley campus, and provide links to related resources on the Internet
- African Music Archive
- Home page of the African Music Archive which includes extensive information about the Archive and it's resources as well as links to related African music resources
- Africans in America
- The Africans in America Web site is a companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States--from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865 -- and explores the central paradox that is at the heart of the American story: a democracy that declared all men equal but enslaved and oppressed one people to provide independence and prosperity to another. Africans in America examines the economic and intellectual foundations of slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. And it reveals how the presence of African people and their struggle for freedom transformed America
- Africa Region Publications Database
- This Publications Database from the Africa Region of the World Bank makes available a series of development periodicals written by the Region's staff. This database represents an effort to create a viable, evolving knowledge base and disseminate it as widely as possible.
- ELAND Database
- The ELAND service provides access to more than 1 million individual records illuminating a wealth of development information resources held by institutes in different parts of Europe. It covers some of the best specialist development research libraries, as well as leading online information sources.
- Intute
- a free online service providing you with access to web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners.
