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African francophone writing : a critical introduction Ibnlfassi, Laïla. |
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PQ3988.5 .N6 A43 1996 |
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African roots/American cultures : Africa in the creation of the Americas |
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E20 .A4 2001 |
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The collected poetry 1st pbk. ed. Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906 |
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PQ3989 .S47 A24 1998 |
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Consciencism; philosophy and ideology for de-colonization Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972. |
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HX437 .N55 1970 |
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Country of my skull : guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South Africa |
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DT1757 K76 1999 |
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Francophone African women writers : destroying the emptiness of silence Almeida, Irène Assiba d'. |
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PQ3980.5 .A46 1994 |
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Home and exile Achebe, Chinua. |
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PR9387.9 .A3 Z467 2000 |
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I write what I like : selected writings Biko, Steve, 1946-1977. |
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DT763 B48 2002 |
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Introducing African women's theology Oduyoye, Mercy Amba |
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BT83.55 .O3 2001B |
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No future without forgiveness 1st ed. Tutu, Desmond. |
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BR1450 .T88 1999 |
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On African socialism Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906 |
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JQ3396 .A91 S4 1964 |
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The open sore of a continent : a personal narrative of the Nigerian crisis Soyinka, Wole. |
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PR9387.9 .S6 Z473 1996 |
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Opening spaces : an anthology of contemporary African women's writings Vera, Yvonne |
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PL8011 .O64 1999 |
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Out of one, many Africas; reconstructing the study and meaning of Africa |
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DT 19.9 U5 O98 1999 |
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Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade Barry, Boubacar |
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DT532.25 .B3713 1998 |
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Servants of Allah : African Muslims enslaved in the Americas. Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952 |
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E443 D56 1998 |
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Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system Solow, Barbara L. (Barbara Lewis) |
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HT855 .S58 1991 |
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa report South Africa. |
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
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DT1945 .S56 1999 5.vols. |
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Women in African colonial histories Allman, Jean Marie. |
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HQ1787 .W655 2002 |
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Books - Reference Resources (non-circulating)
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Africa and the West : a documentary history from the slave trade to independence Worger, William H. |
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REF DT353.5 .E9 A34 2001 |
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The African imagination : literature in Africa & the Black diaspora Irele, Abiola. |
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PL8010 .I74 2001 |
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African states and rulers. Stewart, John, 1952- |
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REF DT31 .S7859 1999 |
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The African studies companion : a resource guide & directory. Zell, Hans M. |
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REF DT19.8 .Z45 1997 |
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African writers |
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2 vols. |
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REF PL8010 .A453 1997 |
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Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. Appiah, Anthony. |
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REF DT14 .A37435 1999 |
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The companion to African literatures. Killam, G. D |
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REF PR9340 .C65 2000 |
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A dictionary of African mythology : the mythmaker as storyteller. Scheub, Harold |
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REF BL2400 .S24 2000 |
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Encyclopedia of African peoples Diagram Group |
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REF DT15 .E53 2000 |
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Encyclopedia of precolonial Africa archaeology, history, languages, cultures, and environments. |
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Vogel, Joseph O. |
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REF DT2 .E53 1997 |
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Historical dictionary of civil wars in Africa. Arnold, Guy. |
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REF DT21.5 .A76 1999 |
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Historical dictionary of Nigeria. Oyewole, A. |
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REF DT515.15 .O94 2000 |
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Historical dictionary of South Africa. Saunders, Christopher C. |
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REF DT1772 .S38 1999 |
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Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Parekh, Pushpa Naidu, 1957- |
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REF PL8010 .P585 1998 |
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Slavery in America : from colonial times to the Civil War: an eyewitness history Schneider, Dorothy |
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An eyewitness history Schneider, Dorothy. |
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REF E441 .S36 2000 |
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Southern African political history: |
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A chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997. Kalley, Jacqueline A. |
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REF DT1147 .K35 1999 |
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Understanding African philosophy : a cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues |
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Bell, Richard H. |
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B5305 .B45 2002 |
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City and County Resources
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Black Heritage Society |
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Contains 176 photographic images of African American life in King County, Washington. One of twelve collections in King Country Snapshots. |
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Seattle Black History |
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Special Report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2/8/2004 |
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Country Information
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Country Studies |
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Online version of the print copy of the Area Handbooks, originally published the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of the Army. |
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Maps of Africa |
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From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas, most of these maps are from the U.S. CIA |
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South African Gateway |
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The International Marketing Council of South Africa presents information on culture, travel, government, history, geography and more. |
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Databases
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Academic
Search Premier |
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Academic Search Premier provides full
text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full
text for nearly 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to
the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for
all 4,500 journals in the collection. Coverage spans virtually
every area of academic study. Some of the journals of interest
to African Studies include Development Southern Africa, African
& Asian Studies, African Philosophy, and the International Journal
of African Historical Studies. |
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AllAfrica.com |
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"AllAfrica.com” is among the
Internet's largest content sites, posting over 1000 stories
daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual
streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in a
searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News
Service dating from 1997). Strategic alliances with media and
information technology companies, such as Comtex News Network,
Radio France Internationale, and the BBC, extend AllAfrica's
global reach. |
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America:
History and Life |
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References and abstracts to works on the
history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the
present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost
400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research
tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
Links to the fulltext of articles in the JSTOR and Project Muse. |
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ATLA
Religion Database |
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Published by the American Theological
Library Association, Contains thousands of citations from over
1,430 international journals and multi-volume works to support
scholarship in religion and theological studies. |
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CIAO |
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Includes working papers from university
research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded
research projects, and proceedings from conferences focusing
on international affairs in international affairs. |
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Global
Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora |
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From the Institute of Diasporic Studies
at Northwestern University, this atlas of the 20th century displays
black politics and social movements |
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Historical
Abstracts |
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Annotated reference guide to history of
the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States
and Canada.) Over 2000 journals are covered in the database.
Includes key historical journals as well as hundreds of journals
in the social sciences and humanitites. Also includes citations
to book reviews and dissertations. Fulltext links to JSTOR and
Project Muse databases |
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JSTOR |
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Fulltext scholarly journal articles
in the areas of history, economics, business, education, psychology,
and more. African Affairs, International Journal of African
Historical Studies, Journal of Modern African Studies are representative
of the 12 current titles in the African Studies cluster. |
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic |
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Provides access to a wide range of news,
business and legal information. Check the World News file for
access to english articles from African newspapers |
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Philosopher's
Index |
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The Philosopher's Index provides bibliographic
citations and abstracts of journal articles and books in the
field of philosophy as well as related fields such as ethics,
aesthetics, epistemology and logic. The database cites works
in 8 languages. Currently the database indexes over 225,000
records from 480 journals, with 10,000 added annually. |
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Project
Muse |
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Project Muse contains full text of journals
in the humanities and social sciences published by university
presses. Includes the following titles in Africa Today, Eastern
Africa Social Science Research Review, Northeast African Studies,Research
in African Literatures,Transformation: Critical Perspectives
on Southern Africa and Transition (archive-only) |
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Research
Library Complete |
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One of the databases provided by the
ProQuest service, it includes the full-text of many periodicals,
academic and popular on a broad range of general reference subjects
including arts, business, humanities, information studies, social
sciences, and the sciences |
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Social
Sciences Abstracts |
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Social Sciences Abstracts provides bibliographic
citations abstracts to a wide range of interdisciplinary fields
covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Subject
areas covered by this database include addiction studies, anthropology,
criminal justice, economics, public administration, geography,
political science, and sociology |
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The trans-Atlantic slave trade [computer
file] : a database on CD-ROM Eltis, David, 1940- |
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Developed by Cambridge University,
database Contains records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship
voyages made between 1595 and 1866. Format allows users to track
information by time period and geographic region, and includes
interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic
connections. The accompanying data contains materials about
people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics,
and the geographic trajectory of each voyage. Ask at Reference
Desk. |
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REF HT1322 .T74 1999 CD-ROM |
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Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedia
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Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience Appiah, Anthony |
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REF DT14 .A37435 1999 |
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Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East and North Africa |
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Ref DS 43 E53 2004 |
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Electronic Journals
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African Philosophy |
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Fullext open access ejournal. Latest issue 2002. (1/2004) |
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African Studies Quarterly, the online journal for African studies |
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This is an electronic only journal from the University of Florida. Full-text of articles in pdf format. Search engine available to search all issues of the journal by topic. |
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Bioline International: African Population Studies |
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Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography |
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"EJAB is a refereed online journal of bibliographies created by the late John Howell, University of Iowa Libraries. Coverage includes any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable development, creative literature, the arts, and the Diaspora."-from the web site. |
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Electronic Journals and Newspapers from Africa-WWW African Studies |
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Jenda, A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies |
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Fulltext open access electronic journal available through the Africa Resource Center. |
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Journal of International Women's Studies |
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"The Journal of International Women's Studies is an on-line, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing." An open access journal which accepts scholarly articles, book reviews and student papers. Cross-cultural articles, many on Africa. |
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Journal of Pan-African Wisdom |
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"The Journal of Pan-African Wisdom is a refereed and Internet-based journal dedicated to encouraging research and publication by people of African descent everywhere and in any field of the social sciences. Other articles of other fields will be considered on merit." |
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Jouvert, A Journal of Postcolonial Studies |
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Published by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University. |
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North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History |
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"peer-reviewed articles based on historical research that explore the religious cultures of people of African descent in the United States. While the editors are interested primarily in North America, we will on occasion publish work from other disciplines and/or that deals in a comparative way with other areas of the African diaspora, as well as with regions in Africa." |
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Safundi, The Journal of South African & Comparative American Studies |
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"Safundi is an online community of scholars, professionals, and others interested in comparing and contrasting the United States of America with the Republic of South Africa." |
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Science in Africa, Africa's First On-Line Science Magazine |
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West African Review |
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Industry Information
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Mbemdi |
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African Business Website. Organized by country and industry |
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Internet Sites
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Africa, South of the Sahara |
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A directory of links from Stanford University's library covering a multitude of topics. Arranged by topic and country. Includes a search engine. |
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Africabib.org |
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The African women's bibliographic database contains over 28,000 citations. Drawing from books, articles, dissertations, working papers, government documents and more, this large database indexes works in English dating from 1986. Search feature includes the ability to search geographically. |
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African Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library at Northwestern University |
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The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992 |
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An exhibition from the Schomburg for research in black culture, New York Public Library. |
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African Voices |
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A permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian institution, African Voices explores the long history of Africa and its influence globally through objects and through the voices of Africans. |
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Afrocentric Experience |
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Black Loyalists, Digital Collection |
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Tells the story of how Canada became the first home of free blacks outside Africa. |
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Citizen King |
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Web site from PBS which accompanies its 2 hour documentary. Includes timeline, oral histories and other material relating to the last five years of Dr. King's life. |
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H-Africa |
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One of H-Net's scholarly lists, H-Africa is a discussion forum for those interested in Africa. Links to other H-Africa lists, as well as web sources |
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In-Motion: The African American Migration Experience |
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The Schomburg Center with the support of the Congressional Black caucus has developed this website which highlights the major migration movements of peoples of African descent. It tells not only of the transatlantic slave crossing and the domestic slave trade, but also of the many voluntary journeys of black migrants in the Americas |
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Key West: The Last African Slave Ships |
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From the Mel Fisher Heritage Society Key West. Archeological site for African Burial site. In 1860, the U.S. Navy intercepted 3 ships taking Africans to Cuba. They were taken to Key West where many of them died. |
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National Museum of African Art |
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Smithsonian Institution |
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Prints & Photographs Online Catalog-African American Photos for the Paris Exposition, 1900 |
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Compiled by W.E. DuBois for the Paris Exposition. |
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Quarterly Index of African Literature |
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From the Library of Congress, this online database is an index of over 300 periodicals. |
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Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia |
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"Between 1783 and 1785, more than 3000 Black persons came to Nova Scotia as a direct result of the American Revolution." From the Nova Scotia Museum. Includes timeline, biographies, summaries and more. |
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Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century |
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This online exhibit represents holding in the Shombury Collection acquired after 1938. "These extensive and diverse resources reflect the dramatic changes that have taken place in the global Africana (African, African American, and African Diasporan) condition since 1938, as well as the new questions scholars and laypersons alike have been asking about black history and culture since that time. Core themes cover geography, socio-political, culture and art. |
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Separate is not Equal-Brown vs. Board of Education |
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Special exhibition website by the Smithsonian Institution. Includes educational materials, links to other resources, plus a public reflection site. |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Africa Focus. 2000 |
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The University of Wisconsin's African Studies program produced this unique website of sounds and images of Africa. |
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WWW (World wide web virtual library) African Studies |
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Columbia University's ongoing web site of online sources for African Studies was designated as the WWW Virtual Library for African Studies in 1999. This research oriented site is arranged by country and region, as well as topic |
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Journals
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Africa insight |
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v.10- 1980- |
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African arts |
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v.7- winter 1974- |
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A current bibliography on African affairs. |
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Journal of Asian and African studies |
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The Middle East journal |
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News
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AllAfrica.com |
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"AllAfrica.com” is among the
Internet's largest content sites, posting over 1000 stories
daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual
streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in a
searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News
Service dating from 1997). Strategic alliances with media and
information technology companies, such as Comtex News Network,
Radio France Internationale, and the BBC, extend AllAfrica's
global reach. |
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New
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Organizations
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Africa Action |
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"Oldest organization in the United States working on African Affairs." Located in Washington, D.C., it works with other groups to influence U.S. foreign policy on Africa. Includes position papers, reports and articles. |
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Africa Union |
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Continental organization which aims to promote unity and integration among African states to facilitate economic and social development. |
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African Studies Association |
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Link to other associations and programs through the link page on the ASA web site. The ASA is located at Rutgers University. |
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Civil Rights Movement Veterans |
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Includes a bibliography, timeline and speeches as well as other traditional web sources. In addition, the website includes memories/reflections and a posting of civil rights veterans of SNCC, NAACP and CORE. |
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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa |
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Economic Community of West African States |
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NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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Oldest civil rights organization in the United States; it was founded in 1909 in NYC by Mary White Ovington, Dr. Henry Moscowitz, Oswald Garrison villard, William English Walling, Ida Wells-barnett and W.E.B. DuBois. |
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Pan American Pan African Association |
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NGO in consultative status with the Economic and Social Consul of the United Nations. Focus on International Trade and Develpopment, Black History month observances and more. |
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Saharan Studies Association |
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Voices of the Civil Rights Movement |
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AARP, Leadership Conference and the Library of Congress are collaborating to bring the voices of the Civil Rights movement online. Intent is to provide first hand accounts and memories of ordinary people involved in the movement, as well as essays and interviews. Includes timeline and section on unfinished business, as well as providing a web page for adding stories. |
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Research Guides & Resource Pages
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Black Studies |
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From the City College of the New York:" Currently there are resources in 51 subject categories including Abolition, Civil Rights, The Freedman's Bureau, the Harlem Renaissance, Horseracing, Literature & Writing, Martin Luther King Jr., the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Slave Narratives, Statistics, Theatre, Tuskegee Airmen and the Underground Railroad." Each category has links with descriptions, cross-references. Some sources are restricted to the City College of New York community |
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Human Rights in Africa |
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Special "Hot Topic" guide on Human Rights by Public Affairs Information Service. Links to relevant websites and suggestions for additional searching. |
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Yale University Library-African Collection |
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Unannotated links from Yale University |
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