African Studies Resources
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General African Web
Sites
Facts on Africa
- Africa
Guide detailed information on 51
countries in Africa
- African govnerments on the
World Wide Web links to governmental institutions on
the Web: parliaments ministries, offices, law courts, embassies,
city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks,
multi-governmental institutions, political parties
- Facts
on African Countries: Alphabetical List
This is a list
of basic information on African countries from Univ. of Pennslyvania
- MBendi
AfroPaedia extensive business and commerical information on Africa,
including African stock exchanges and industries such as Oil, Gas, Chemicals,
Mining etc.
- US State
Department background Notes: Africa
- World Factbook
(from the CIA) includes information and maps on African
countries
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Electronic Indexes &
Journals
Electronic Indexes
- African
Studies (19th Century - Present) an combination of
databases providing access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. Search
information sources from Africa, Europe, and the USA, together.
Published by NISC South Africa. (Princeton only)
- Africabib.org Bibliography
of Africana Periodical Literature Database; indexes over 27,000 articles from
over 246 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that
specialize in African Studies or cover the African continent.
Africabib.org African
Women's bibliographic Database; contains over 20,000 English
language citations from 1986 to current; indexes books, government documents;
articles in edited books; periodical and journal articles; masters
theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors
papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.
- Population Index
on the Web annotated bibliography of recently published
books, journal articles, working papers, and other
materials on
population topics. (From Princeton University)
- Quarterly index
to periodical literature: eastern and southern Africa. (Online)
from the Nairobi, Library of Congress office. A searchable online
index to materials acquired by The Library of Congress since 1991.
- South
African Studies combination of databases providing access to
multi-disciplinary information on South Africa.
(Princeton only)
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Electronic Journals
- African Journals
Online a project managed by INASP to promote the
awareness and use of African-published journals in the
sciences. AJOL 2000 offers the tables of contents and
abstracts of articles from up to 50 journals in agricultural sciences,
science and technology, health and social sciences, published in
Africa.
- Electronic
Journals and Newspapers on Africa annotated list of newspapers and
journals online (from Columbia Univ)
- Digital Imaging Project
of South Africa (University of Natal) the DISA project aims "to
makeaccessible to scholars and researchers world-wide, South African material
of high socio-political interest which would otherwise bedifficult to locate
and use." As part of that effort, DISA hasrecently announced the online
availability of three South Africanjournals: _Clarion Call_ (1982-91), _Pro
Veritae_ (1962-77), and_Sas_ (1956-90). A large number of additional
title will be made available in the future.
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Electronic News & Listservs
Electronic News
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Listservs & Bulletin Boards
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Library Catalogs (US, Europe
& South Africa)
Newspaper catalogs
African Newspapers in
American Libraries
Center for Research Libraries (Chicago)
Library of Congress Newspaper Holdings by Country
Selected Library Catalogs (United States)
Selected Library Catalogs (Great Britain)
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Organizations dealing with
Africa
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1/2000, 10/2000, 3/01, 12/05
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