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Africa
  • Africabib.org Two online bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature, and a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa. The site is hosted by The African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • African Studies Gateway An index of African studies discussion networks on H-Net.
  • African Studies WWW Site of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Newsgroups, links etc.


  • Archives and Libraries

    • Africa Research Central A gateway to archives, libraries, and museums in Africa, Europe and North America with important collections of African primary sources.
    • Afrika Studiecentrum (Leiden) African Studies Centre - Centre d'Etudes Africaines: research institution and documentation centre for African studies in the Netherlands. Online catalogue and many other resources including working papers, 'Web Dossiers' containing topical information on Africa, 'African Studies Abstracts Online', and bibliographies.

    Research Institutions

    • Afrika Studiecentrum (Leiden) African Studies Centre - Centre d'Etudes Africaines: research institution and documentation centre for African studies in the Netherlands. Online catalogue and many other resources including working papers, 'Web Dossiers' containing topical information on Africa, 'African Studies Abstracts Online', and bibliographies.
    • CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Dakar, Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined.

    Special Topics

    • Africa - Labor at Stanford University. Some links to labour-related and labour history sites.
    • Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu These 206 manuscripts, in Arabic, include documentation on Africans in slavery and manumission in Muslim societies. They are from the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, and were selected for conservation treatment and digitization in order to make them accessible via the Web.

    Discussion Lists


    Journals


    Reference

    • African Studies Internet Resources World-Wide Web Virtual Library Africa at Columbia University.
    • ILiSSAfrica A portal giving access to websites, bibliographic databases and other information resources on sub-Saharan Africa from the Frankfurt university library, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg, the African Studies Centre Leiden, and tables of contents from 170 serial publications on Africa.



Last updated 28 January 2014