Regional - Africa - Society and Culture Cultures of Africa - Past & Present - The World-Wide Web Virtual Library - African Studies. Ancestors in Africa - Information about mortuary customs and beliefs, ancestor worship, death, and dreams. Created by David Zeitlyn as part of the Experience Rich Anthropology Project. Africa South of the Sahara - Culture and Society - An annotated guide to internet resources on African culture and society. Mortuary Customs And The Belief In Survival After Death Among The South-Eastern Bantu - Academic paper from the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent. African Royalty - Notes and links about African traditional rulers. Worldwide Nubian Organization - Independent non-profit organization presenting a Nubian perspective on current and past events. Colonialism and Africa's Technology - Paper by Dr Gloria Emeagwali. The Africa 2000 Media Group - Produces investigative reports for use by the news media and reports for reference purposes on African sociological, demographic, economic, military, and political topics. Southern and Eastern Africa Policy Research Network - A network of six research institutions who are engaged in strengthening policy analysis in their home countries. Pan Africa Bicycle Information Network - Working to improve opportunities for bicycle transport and low-cost mobility. Includes information, discussion groups, and links on policies, programs and other resources relating to bicycle or other non-motorized transport on the continent. African Lives - A series of occasional articles that chronicles the everyday lives of African peoples. Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-1999 - A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography Ethno-Net Africa - A network for comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social transformation in Africa. West Africa Review - An ejournal devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of importance to the global African community and friends of Africa. Center For World Indigenous Studies: African Documents - Reports on indigenous peoples. African Information Society Youth Network - A network project that was the result of regional initiatives from the Global Knowledge Youth Forums. Africa Research Central - A clearing-house of African primary resources. English and French. OneWorld Database : Africa - Links to current OneWorld partner documents. Browse alphabetically, by country, or by topic. African Sources - A selected list of books, recordings and videos of interest to students of African music, culture and religion. Compiled 1996. Highway Africa - Annual forum on journalistic, technological, and political issues crucial to the development of New Media in Africa. The Conference is held during September each year at Rhodes University. AfricAura - An audio-visual project exploring African culture. African Counselling Network - A group of individuals interested in the development of counselling in Africa. Life in Africa Foundation - Fosters an increased international understanding of Africa and African people, and to make a lasting impact - through supporting microfinance in Africa - on the lives of ordinary African people. African Population Database Documentation - Describes a database of administrative units with associated population figures for Africa. African Book Reviews - Reviews of books on African history and culture. Your Dot Com for Africa - Articles on African culture and commentaries on current affairs. African Diaspora - Columbia University - Area Studies UNESCO - Iron Roads in Africa - Project to develop interdisciplinary scientific research and intersectoral activities about ironworking. Art and Life in Africa Online - Documents on art, culture and society in Africa. Peoples Resources - Notes on some of the peoples of Africa. Journal of African Philosophy - Promotes the study of African and African Diaspora philosophy; editorial, subscription and submission details. A Day in the Life of Africa - An international photojournalism project with profits going to AIDS education, resulting in a book, website, and exhibit. Young African - Forum and links for young people in the African diaspora. Afriquaine! - Beauty, fashion and music ezine. Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa - Provides information, scientific criteria and operational services for those involved in the development of cultural policies in Africa. African Youth Foundation - A non-profit development organisation created to aid young people in Africa, as well as African nationals abroad to undertake projects which will enable them obtain skills necessary for their future livelihoods. Population Information Network - Africa - A collection of population information resources on the web produced in and by African institutions. African Urban Heritage Foundation - UK charitable company supporting activities related to historical towns in Africa. Background information, news, details of towns. Management and Change in Africa - Cross-cultural project on management in Africa providing resources and information for researchers, educators and policy-makers. Kukummi - Personal stories and experiences of Africa. Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal Of African Migration - Publishes scholarly articles documenting the relevance of African immigration and migration to the world's social, political and economic systems. Africa South of the Sahara - Religion - Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources African Religion - Brings together many articles which Wim van Binsbergen has written over the years in the fields of the anthropology and intercultural philosophy of African religion. Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar - SECAM is the pan-African association of Catholic bishops' conferences. Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in East Africa - AMECEA is a regional grouping of Catholic bishops' conferences from eight countries. Frames-dependent site. Islam in Africa - Conference on 'Islam and Africa', April 2001. This interdisciplinary dialogue will emphasize the cultural, intellectual, aesthetic, social, political, and historical aspects of these interrelated topics. Christianity vs. Islam in Africa: A 19th Century Debate - This article deals with a late 19th Century debate in London about whether Christianity had failed in Africa, whether Islam was more appropriate for Africa than Christianity, and how racism within Great Britain caused Christian missions to fail in converting and civilizing Africa in the 19th Century. Islam in Africa - The development of the Muslim religion on the African continent. Islam and Indigenous African Culture - Brief overviews from the Baobab Project. Islam in Africa - Historical overview by Prof. A. Rahman I. Doi. Memphis Da'wah - Islamic Information and Propagation Landweb - A network and information exchange tool for NGOs working on land advocacy and issues in Eastern and Southern Africa. Mwengo - Organization strengthens the capacities of NGOs in Eastern and Southern Africa. Kabissa Members Directory - Kabissa members are non-profit organisations throughout Africa. The Members directory contains full contact details and mission statements. Southern African Book Development Education Trust - Works in support of indigenous publishing in Africa; details of programs and funding opportunities. Pact Kenya - USA-based NGO supporting African partners in the fields of food security and conflict prevention. AfricAvenir - Political education and dissemination of cultural information about Africa -- details of publications and research. Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa - Information is universally acknowledged to be a lynchpin of sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, access to information is limited, and especially so for rural women. The new information and communication technologies (ICTs), centred mostly on the Internet, provide potential to redress this imbalance. Edited by Eva M. Rathgeber and Edith Ofwona Adera. The entire text is online. Flamme - Flamme is a network of African sisters online committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing +5 process regionally and globally. African Women's Media Center - The AWMC provides African women journalists the training, resources and tools they need to compete equally with their male colleagues. The AWMC site provides training, opportunities for networking and education, and resources by and about African women journalists. Africa News Online - Women and Gender Issues - Links to current news from around the continent. Abantu For Development - A non-governmental organisation founded in 1991 by women, for the purpose of harnessing resources to the benefit of African people. Abantu means "people" in many languages, and symbolizes our people-centred philosophy. The main focus of our work is on training, providing information and advice on mobilising resources towards sustainable development in Africa. African Gender Institute - Building intellectual capacity and establishing an African resource dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity. Strategic Action Issue Area: African Women's Rights - Links to online documents. FAWE - Forum for African Women Educationalists - A membership organization that brings together African women ministers in charge of national education systems, women vice chancellors of universities and other senior women policy makers in education in Africa. GAIN: Gender in Africa Information Network - The network encourages participation of documentalists, activists, researchers and journalists who have an interest and commitment to gender related issues in Africa and the dissemination of information. APC-Africa-Women - APC-Africa-Women gathers and works together with women and women's organizations in Africa and all over the world, focusing on African women's empowerment through Information Facilitation, Regional Support, Policy and Advocacy, Training and Research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Jenda: Journal of Culture and African Women Studies - EJournal devoted to the promotion of the research and scholarship of African women to the global African community and friends of Africa. West Africa Review: Special Issue on Gender - Peer-reviewed papers and reviews on women and gender in Africa. (August 2000) Women in Africa's Development - Africa Recovery/UN/Briefing Paper #11 on Women. The African Centre for Women - NGO promoting the use of Information & Communications Technology by women in Africa African Women's Bibliographic Database - An English language database containing over 19,000 citations from 1986 to current. Femnet - The African Women's Development and Communication Network. Contemporary African Database - Searchable pages listing prominent African people, categorized by profession and country. African Experts Database - Economic Commission for Africa skills database -- experts in Africa or the diaspora. African Association of Political Science - A pan-African organisation of scholars whose mandate is to promote the study and application of political science in and about Africa. Association of Concerned Africa Scholars - Documents, analyses, actions and discussions on aspects of foreign policy and perceptions of Africa in the United States. NDI - Central, East and West Africa - Documents on democracy from USA non-profit organization. African Anarchism - Anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism from around Africa. News, analysis, mailing lists, personal accounts, historical essays. Letter from Europe - Monthly article about African politics by Rwandan author Benjamin Sehene H-AfrPol: African Politics - H-Net discussion group dedicated to African political history. Features subject overview, archive, links to related lists, and subscription information. African Languages at Michigan State University - Course offerings and African Linguistics information. Language map, extensive website directory. African Language Resources - Columbia University - Area Studies links. The Afroasiatic Index Project - The Afroasiatic Index Project is a scholarly initiative that aims at creating an etymological database of Afroasiatic languages. Africa Policy Information Center - A non-profit organization dedicated to providing accessible information and analysis on African issues. ICTSD - Africa - Documents on trade and sustainable development in Africa. The Flight of African Financial and Intellectual Capital - Interview with Philip Emeagwali on corruption, military dictators and the flight of "intellectual capital" to the West, and the flight of money from Africa to Swiss banks. Africa Resource Center - Information portal for African social and cultural issues. Support for Analysis and Research in Africa - Works to identify social-sector issues of regional concern in Africa and participates in research, analysis, and dissemination activities related to these issues. Non-Governmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Peace Resource Center contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies; other U.N. human rights materials, with an emphasis on peace and war related materials Pambazuka Newsletter - An advocacy tool for social justice, designed specifically for those working in Africa -- subscription information and archives. NYTimes.com Magazine - What Will Become of Africa's AIDS Orphans? - Long feature article about African orphanages for children whose parents have died of AIDS and similar scourges. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] Poverty in Africa - World Bank Group documents. BBC - Africa's Famine: Country by Country - Reports on the food and hunger situations on the countries most at risk. New Partnership for Africa's Development - Details on a pledge by African leaders to eradicate poverty and to place their countries on a path of sustainable growth. Registration required. African Development Forum 2000 - An initiative led by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to establish an African-driven development agenda that reflects consensus among major partners and that leads to specific programmes for country implementation. African Education, Economic Development and Brain Drain - Worldnet television interviews renowned Nigerian scientist, Philip Emeagwali, on the social, economic and political impact of the emigration of African intellectuals, scientists and medical doctors. African Information Society Youth Network - A regional youth information and communication electronic network. Its objective is to facilitate and coordinate the implementation of youth-targeted ICT-programmes in the context of promoting sustainable youth livelihood, education and enterpreneurship opportunities in Africa. African Voices - Provides a forum for dialogue on democratization in Africa; news and analysis of USAID and its collaborators' activities in civil society, profiles of African NGOs working in civil society, internet resources, publications, and conference highlights. (PDF format). Africa Live Database - Access to development data for decision makers in Africa, both within and outside government. New Africa International Network - A Pan-Africanist and international organisation camopaigning for the development of the African Union. Africa Recovery - An office of the United Nations Department of Public Information providing news and analysis on economic and development challenges facing the African continent. Africa Development - Wringing Success from Failure in Late-Developing Countries - Lessons from the Field. Information about a book on development and aid for late developing countries. Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Debt Relief - News, analysis, background information and links. Foundation for the Development of Africa - Africa sustainable development non profit organisation; campaign for support of NEPAD. African Development Forum 1999 - An initiative of the Economic Commission for Africa, providing key stakeholders in African development with the results of current research and opinion on key development issues in order to formulate shared goals, priorities and programmes. BBC News G8 Agrees Africa Action Plan - Story and links to G8's response to NEPAD. RDP(Reconstruction and Development Programme) Development Monitor - Covers all aspects of development-related issues in South Africa, from an independent perspective. African Salvation Group Corp. - USA organization developing programs to provide basic social services to ordinary African citizens. AvRICA - NGO providing aid to rural African communities via aviation; project details. Kabissa - Provides Internet, training and network services for the African non-profit sector. Sunugal Education Fund - USA organization supporting underprivileged children's education in West Africa. Balancing Act - Assists creation of content for the internet and other new media technologies in Africa in the fields of economic, social and cultural development. Kabissa - Provides Internet, training and network services for the African non-profit sector. Center for Information Technology in African Development - Resource, research, training and consulting center concerned with the information and communication technologies and information society development in Africa. Partnership for Information and Communication Technologies in Africa - Network of donors and agencies working to improve information exchange and collaboration around ICT activities in Africa. Hopes on the Horizon: The Rise of a New Africa - Companion site to the PBS documentary film of the same name. Explores the rise of pro-democracy movements in six African countries --Mozambique, Morocco, Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa -- during the 1990s. African Rights - Working for Justice - Africa's problems seen from an African perspective. African Human Rights Resource Center - The Peace Resource Center contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies; other U.N. human rights materials, with an emphasis on peace and war related materials. Green Charter International - Green Charter International is an African International Human Rights Organisation based on the Great Green Charter for Human Rights and Freedoms. Green Charter International works to propagate knowledge of, and campaigns for, these advanced rights and freedoms. Human Rights in Africa - Reports and information. The Africa Fund - Works for a positive U.S. policy towards Africa and supports human rights, democracy and development. Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa - A non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organisation founded to advance respect for human rights in Africa through the use of international law. DFN: Sub-Saharan Africa - News reports on press freedom. Article 19: Africa Programme - The Africa Programme staff are based in London and Johannesburg and their current programme of work takes in freedom of information (Nigeria), truth commissions (Sierra Leone) and media monitoring (Zimbabwe, Malawi), as well as reporting and campaigning widely on general freedom of expression issues in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Article 19: Africa publications - Range from short updates on country situations to full reports on the freedom of expression situation in the region. Amnesty International Report 1999: Africa Index Page - Summary of concern with links to country reports. Richard Knight - Africa - Documents on human rights and economic justice. Centre for Democracy and Development - A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. Site includes press releases, strategy statement, current projects and publications, and partner organizations. Amnesty International - Recent AI Publications on Africa. Human Rights and Governance in Africa - Columbia University African Studies link list. African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights - Research project that aims at legally analyzing the basic tenets of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Includes background information, bibliography and links. Contemporary Conflicts in Africa - Internet resources on the prevention, management and resolution of violent conflicts in Africa. Human Rights in Africa - Links to information on African peace and conflict resolution. Track Two - A quarterly publication of the Centre for Conflict Resolution and the Media Peace Centre to promote innovative and constructive approaches to community and political conflict, as an alternative to traditional adversarial tactics. Conflicts in Africa - Issues involved in wars in Africa, from GlobalIssues.org. African Peace-keeping Missions - Peace-Keeping Missions in Africa. IGOs Involved in African Peace Initiatives - IGOs and Government Agencies Involved in African Peace Initiatives. africaweb - United Nations documents on UN peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace-building in Africa. African Conflict Journal - An online community providing information to understand, resolve and ultimately prevent conflict in Africa. Features news, forums, country reports and academic resources. African Conflict and the Media - Conciliation Resources paper. Behind the Mask - Gay, lesbian, and African affairs. 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