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  • Africa Action - A U.S.-based organization that works for political, economic, and social justice in Africa, Africa Action provides policy briefing papers and numerous links on its site.
    http://www.africaaction.org/index.php

  • Africa Focus: Sites and Sounds of a Continent - 3,500 images (artisans, buildings and architecture, landscapes, and more) and 50 hours of sound (drums, songs, greetings, and ceremonies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/

  • Africa Maps - Numerous maps of the African continent, plus maps of specific countries and cities. Also on the site are Historical Maps of Africa. From the University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html

  • African Art - The Detroit Institute of Arts presents images and information on African art, focusing particularly on representations of power in art.
    http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/africanart/africanart.html

  • African Literature on the Internet – Collection of links to sites with information on African literature from the Columbia University Library.
    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/aflit.html

  • African National Congress: Historical Documents - Documents the history of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, with speeches, official documents, and biographies of leaders. By the African National Congress.
    http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/

  • African Studies at Penn - Background information, teaching resources, and links related to Africa generally and to individual countries. Maintained by Ali Ali-Dinar at the University of Pennsylvania.
    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

  • African Studies Quarterly - An interdisciplinary electronic journal.
    http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/

  • African Timelines - Five narrative timelines of African history, enhanced with links to sites providing more detailed information. From Cora Agatucci of Central Oregon Community College.
    http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm

  • African Voices - The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History presents an interactive exhibit on Africa’s history and culture.
    http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/

  • Africa South of the Sahara - Links to Web sites with information on Africa. Maintained by Karen Fung at Stanford University.
    http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

  • Africa Sun - Headlines drawn from more than 100 African news sources.
    http://www.africasunnews.com/index.html

  • Africa Update - A quarterly newsletter from Central Connecticut State University’s African Studies Program. Recent issues have focused on the Nigerian census, colonization and the legacy of the Amistad, and nation-building in Ghana and Nigeria.
    http://www.ccsu.edu/Afstudy/archive.html

  • Africa Vision - Images of items in the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Includes masks, ideal figures, and images of power and prestige. Learning activities are provided.
    http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/africanvision/

  • AllAfrica.com - Provides access to daily news about the African continent from more than 70 news organizations. Provided by AllAfrica Global Media.
    http://allafrica.com/

  • Art and Life in Africa Project - Information on and images of African art and history. From the University of Iowa.
    http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/

  • BBC News: Africa - News on politics, science, business, health, education, and other aspects of events in Africa, from BBC News.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm

  • Brookfield Zoo: In Search of the Ways of Knowing Trail – An interactive game that teaches students about the Ituri Forest in central Africa.
    http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/wok/ways_index.html

  • Bureau of African Affairs - The U.S. Department of State presents country information as well as background on such regional topics as the food crisis, HIV/AIDS, refugees, and education.
    http://www.state.gov/p/af/

  • Can I Have a Word: Changing Voices – A poetry unit featuring work by leading South African poets Beverley Naidoo, Olusola Oyeleye, Valerie Bloom, and others.
    http://www.barbican.org.uk/canihaveaword/

  • CNN World News: Africa - News stories from Africa, provided daily by CNN.
    http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/archive/

  • Eldis Country Profiles - This site focuses on development, providing research-based country information in such categories as agriculture, trade, education, and poverty.
    http://www.eldis.org/country/

  • Exploring Africa: Introduction to Curriculum Resources - A collection of teaching modules from Michigan State University's African Studies Center.
    http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/teachers/curriculum/

  • HIV/AIDS in Africa - The World Bank covers the AIDS epidemic and efforts to combat it.
    http://www.worldbank.org/afr/aids/

  • Human Rights Watch: Sudan - The nonprofit human rights group reports on the situation in Darfur. Coverage includes a page featuring pictures drawn by children affected by affected by the war.
    http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=sudan

  • Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art - This Smithsonian site "explores the relationships between African art and the communicative powers of language, graphic systems, and the written word."
    http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/inscribing/index2.html

  • International Council of African Museums - Heritage news and information about the various museums in Africa.
    http://www.africom.museum/

  • The Jane Goodall Institute - Background on Africa’s primates, plus information about the Institute's activities and how students can participate.
    http://www.janegoodall.org/

  • National Museum of African Art - Online gallery of African art objects. From the Smithsonian.
    http://www.nmafa.si.edu/

  • Project Africa - Most notable feature of this site is the collection of nearly 50 lesson plans created by teachers in a Minnesota Geographic Alliance seminar.
    http://mage.geog.macalester.edu/Africa/

  • Rainforest - PBS provides this overview of the African rainforest.
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/rainforest/rainforest_overview.html

  • 16th - Early 20th Century Maps of Africa - Northwestern University presents more than 100 historic maps of the continent.
    http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/mapsofafrica/

  • The Story of Africa - An in-depth look at African history from the BBC.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml

  • Sub-Saharan African History Sources – The University of Washington provides links to sites with information on African history.
    http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/africa.html

  • Sudan – The New York Times provides archival material and current news about the human rights crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
    http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/sudan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo

  • Trekking to Timbuktu - An eight-lesson unit exploring the history of northwestern Africa, with a focus on the spread of Islam and its influence. From Edsitement.
    http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=499

  • Washington Post Online: Africa - News and features on Africa from The Washington Post and the Associated Press.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/

  • World Bank: Africa - Information on development projects underway in Africa.
    http://www.worldbank.org/africa/
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