Microfilm publisher. Sells 19th and 20th century journals and archival
collections for African studies and other areas. Has a search engine. Search
OCLC's World Catalog and/or RLIN to locate libraries with holdings of these
microforms. http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/
Examples -
Africa Through Western Eyes. Part 1: Original Manuscripts from the Royal
Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library
Based at the Research Center of the International Pragmatics Association,
University of Antwerp, and works with the
Centre Æquatoria,
Mbandaka, Congo (DRC). "Its goal is to make extensively annotated editions as
well as systematic interpretive analyses of documents from the archives of the
Centre Æquatoria — in particular those documents that are relevant to the
historiographic study of linguistics and ethnology in colonial times."
The Archives have, on microfiche, the proceedings of the Conférence Nationale
Souveraine. The
Cataloguefor the Archives' holdings is online. The Archives holdings, on
microfiche, are available in
several
locations worldwide (CAMP, Univ. of Wisconsin, etc.). The microfiche can
also be purchased from the Archives in Antwerp.
London-based dealer offers for sale African coins, military medals, bank
notes, documents, badges, postcards, and other historical / political
artifacts. Site of David Saffery. http://www.afribilia.com/
Directed by Honoré Vinck. The Centre Aequatoria at Bamanya, Democratic
Republic of the Congo (and Lovenjoel, Belgium) has "a collection of more than
600 schoolbooks and religious textbooks in 35 Congolese languages. The oldest
of these books date back to 1897. Since 1995, fifty-five booklets have been
entirely translated into French. The translations can be ordered from the
Centre and will be on the web site. Has the full text of "Ideology
in the Schoolbooks in the Belgian Congo" by Honoré Vinck and of "Manuels
scolaires coloniaux (Congo-Belge) Un Florilège." See also the
Aequatoria
Archives Research Project." http://www.abbol.com/projects.htm
Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State
University, provides citations to books and links to web sites relating to
the, "Background History of Africa, African Food Processing Techniques,
African Textile Techniques, African Metallurgy, Colonialism and Africa's
Technology.
http://members.aol.com/afsci/africana.htm
Chronology with descriptions for Ancient Africa, African Empires, African
Slave Trade & European Imperialism, Anti-Colonialism, Post-Independence
Africa, plus Sources for Further Study. Site by Cora Agatucci, Associate
Professor of English, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon.
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
The U.S. Library of Congress holds the records of the American
Colonization Society which established Liberia. The exhibit descriptions
provide historical background on this period. The Colonization section is part
of the
African-American Mosaic exhibit.
Colonization: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
"Some notes on Fort Patience (Apam) and Ussher Fort (Accra) A special
contribution to the official home page of the Netherlands Embassy in Accra by
Michel R. Doortmont and Michel van den Nieuwenhof." Part of the web site of
the Netherlands Embassy in
Accra, Ghana. http://www.ambaccra.nl/pages/c_forts.htm
In French. Sells publications about stamps from Francophone Africa, has a
discussion forum, links to related sites, etc. http://www.ifrance.com/COLFRA/
An investigation into why certain cultures, places, and periods encouraged
creativity and innovation in the arts, directed by Suzanne Preston Blier,
Dept. of Fine Arts, Harvard. The Project Manager is Michael Roy. Case studies
include
Asante political expansion, Islam and indigenous African cultures,
Shawabtis and Nubia, Yoruba masking traditions, and Ife, an ancient Yoruba
city state.
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/baobab/baobab.html
Barrera, Giulia - "Dangerous Liaisons: Colonial Concubinage in
Eritrea, 1890-1941"
Short excerpt from an 1890 book on a U.S. expedition to observe the solar
eclipse. "Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, the colonial powers of
Europe and the United States sent expeditions all over the globe to observe
solar
eclipses. From San Francisco's Exploratorium,"a museum of science, art, and
human perception founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer." http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/1890.html
"the history of the continent from an African perspective." "from the
origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid" by major African
historians (Jacob Ajayi, George Abungu, Director-General of the National
Museums of Kenya and others). Includes audio of each segment of the BBC
program. (Requires sound card, speaker or headphone). Each segment has a
timeline, bibliography, useful links. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
The compiler writes "This site is not a rigourous academic site!" An
attractive site with graphics and full text articles on events in Ethiopia,
South Africa, a small section on
Africa,
biographies including
Cecil Rhodes,
a "Library" with abstracts of books such as "Plain
Tales from the Dark Continent,"
timelines,
uniforms, cigarette cards, cartoons, illustrations from Punch magazine,
railroads, links to
African history
sites, company histories, and other resources. Maintained by
Stephen Luscombe who
teaches English in Kuwait. http://www.edunltd.com/empire/empire.htm
The Museum holds African sculpture, textiles, graphic arts, objects from
Ancient Egypt, money. Use the
COMPASS
database to locate African objects in these categories and others. The
database comprises selections from the Museum's collections. [KF] http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/world/africa/africa.html
A festschrift for E. M. Chilver, appearing in three
different publications, has been produced. The introductions to these three
projects are online. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/index.html
An exhibit of historical postcards of Mali (Soudan
francais) and West Africa from a cd-rom (960 francs) produced
by l'Association Images & Memoires and UNESCO. Shows Bamako, Tombouctou,
Bandiagara, women, colonial scenes, chiefs (Sidi Moctar, Behanzin, Samory
Toure en captivité, Oba of Benin, notables from Mossi, Sierra Leone, Accra).
Hosted on the Université Laval (Canada) site. http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/gersa/Images.html
In French. Has an online exhibit and articles about, "1848-1998,
150 ans d'abolition de l'esclavage." http://www.vn.refer.org/benin_ct/tur/ccf/espadoc/fonds/pres.htm
The Commission maintains graves / memorials throughout the world for
members of the Commonwealth forces who died in World Wars I and II. Has
statistics on the number of Commonwealth war dead commemorated by country, for
ex. 50,000 + in Kenya, 8,000 + in South Africa, 5,000 + in Tanzania, 4,000 +
in Nigeria, 900+ in Eritrea, etc. Select "Global Commitment" then "breakdown
by country." http://www.cwgc.org/
Includes biographies of missionaries serving in Africa. Jacques Laval
(1803-1864) served in Mauritius - http://www.spiritains.qc.ca/Historique/laval.htm
"a digital library of primary sources [mainly from 1840 - 1900]
in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
Has scanned images of the full text of books and articles. A
search on Cecil Rhodes, for example,
produces 102 matches in 57 journal articles. Examples of article titles: The
Ultimate Triumph of the Boers, Briton and Boer in South
Africa, Military Problems in South Africa, A French General's
Defense of the Boers, The Historical Causes of the Present War in South
Africa, Problems of the Transvaal, The Responsibility of
Cecil Rhodes. [KF] http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Full text of the book (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1911, 228 pp.)
Includes
- accounts of a young Winston Churchill's escape from a South African prison
during the Boer War (South African War)
- American Frederick Russell Burnham's participation in the 1st and 2nd
Matabele Uprisings, the Boer War, his killing of Umlimo, and brief mention of
his visits to Ashanti and East Africa. Part of Project Gutenberg Etext. [KF]
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3029
In German. The Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main has put
on-line a large
keyword searchable database of colonial era photographs,
1822-1936, from the archives of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft [German
Colonial Society], a major organization behind Germany's colonial expansion.
Covers Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Togo, etc. One can click on the small
photos to see a larger version. The database can be searched by Region,
Subject Areas, Keyword, Person, Photographer, People. The collection, of
thousands of photographs, is also being microfilmed for preservation. [B.Lawrance
and KF]
http://www.stub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/
"the first complete
chronology on
Namibian history from the precolonial times to the date of independence
(1990) and the story of the only so far discovered
ruins of precolonial
Namibia (//Khauxa!nas)..." Has a
history of
Namibia telecommunications, a lecture on
foreign aid,
a history of
Walvis Bay, reports on water, energy, roads, railways. Dr. Dierks is
former Deputy Minister of the first Ministry of Roads and Transport (later
Mines and Energy) in Namibia (until March 2000). Is now Chairman of Namibia's
Energy Control Board. http://www.klausdierks.com
The finding aid for Durham's Sudan Archive which contains the
papers of over 260 institutions and individuals (administrators, soldiers,
missionaries and others who served in the Sudan), from 1883-1956, is online.
The finding aid includes the papers of General Sir Reginald Wingate, Sir
Harold MacMichael, Sir James Robertson, and the Gordon Memorial College Trust
Fund. Has some material from the post-independence period and papers relating
to countries bordering the Sudan. The Sudan Archive includes photographs,
films, maps, museum objects. http://flambard.dur.ac.uk:6336/dynaweb/guides/ascguide/xmlpointer(ID(SAD))
Durham University Library has holdings of books, periodicals and ephemeral
material listed in their
online catalog.
"Offers package tours to Ghana. Focus is on black history, education,
ecology and leisure. Visits to Slave Castles of 15/16th centuries, game
reserves, festivals and other historic sites." An Elmina-Java Museum detailing
the history of "The Black Dutchmen" will open in October 2002. Contains an
account of "The Black
Dutchmen: The Story of African Soldiers in The Netherlands East Indes."
http://elwininternational.com
"...an e-mail discussion group whose primary focus is the history of the
British Empire and Commonwealth from the 15th century onwards. The list is
open to all persons interested in the British Empire and in British colonial
and imperial history." http://website.lineone.net/~british_empire/index.html
Has the table of contents for this journal (published in Lausanne,
Switzerland) on missionary history in Africa. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/emorier/
Gallica is an online exhibit of images and full text from 19th century
books and journals. Included are illustrations from 16 African travel and
ethnographic books from the Library of the Musee de l'Homme. For example,
from Esquisses sénégalaises, Physionomie du pays, Peuplades, Commerce,
Religions, Passé et avenir, Récits et légendes [Paris : P. Bertrand ,
1853], there are portraits of Senegalese women. http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Collections on African Christianity from mainly North American Protestant
missionaries and some African churches and organizations. Most records are
20th century; 75% concern east or central Africa. Examples are the diaries of
Bernard Litchman, a health officer in Zaire from 1917 to 1961, and Elwood
Davis, a physician, in Kenya 1910 to 1949.
Collections include those of the
Africa Inland
Mission and individual missionaries. Has the text of an interview with
Paul P. Stough, a missionary with the Africa Inland Mission in Zaire (from
1928 to the early 1960s) during Belgian colonial rule which offers insights
into relations with the Zairois, Belgian officials, the Catholic missions,
etc.
Its
Images of Colonial Africa exhibit are photographs by
missionary Laura Collins of Kenya, Cameroon, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda in
the early 1900s.
A 48 page list of the Graham Center's Africa-related collections is available
by e-mail from:
bgcarc@david.wheaton.edu
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/archhp1.html
For those with access to British command papers, this is a subject index
to some of these documents, mainly for the 1950s (scanned from the print
publication, London, H.M.S.O., 1961). In addition, publications designated
Colonial no. can be found by subject, region/country, and by colonal no. From
the library
finding aids at Stanford Univ. [KF] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/co300.pdf
The PRO's Virtual Museum
shows "seal matrices for the seal of Southern Rhodesia, with their copper
counterpart." Click on the photo for a closeup. Part of the
Empire section whicn includes an
Empire map. http://www.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/maingalleries/empire/matrices/default.htm
In English and German. About a film and book, "Rote Adler an Afrikas
Küste. Die brandenburgisch-preußische Kolonie Großfriedrichsburg in Westafrika"
on a Prussian fort on the coast of Ghana built by Friedrich Wilhelm of
Brandenburg (1640 - 1688)." Includes a
chronology, map,
Site by Selignow, publisher of the book on the Prussian fort. The "Brandenburg
- Princess Town - Eine Welt e.V." association supports maintainence of the
fort. http://www.gross-friedrichsburg.de
The full text online of Stanley Hyatt's book is provided by Ronald J.
Wilson of Spokane, Washington. Hyatt travelled in Rhodesia (also to
Mozambique, Mauritius, Australia, the Philippines). Includes photographs of
early Bulawayo, a glossary created by Wilson. One can download the complete
book in ASCII text. http://www.outspan.com/books/sph/frames.htm
A bibliography of census holdings from the 1940s-1990s, mainly population
and housing censuses. Lists
African censuses.
"Census volumes may be borrowed through interlibrary loan by libraries in the
United States except when materials are fragile or in cases where the
University of Texas at Austin holds the only known copy." http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/icc/index.html
Has audio clips of Radio Freedom, the voice of the
African National Congress during the 1970s. (requires a sound
card, Real Player). The Radio Zambia clip has short segment of Nkosi
Sikelel' iAfrika. Also has clips from SWAPO's Voice of Namibia, the
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Voice, the Voice of Free Africa (a
conservative station), UNITA's the Voice of the Cockerel, and the Voice of
Free Africa (an anti-SWAPO station). Web site based in Reading, Berkshire,
U.K. [KF] http://www.intervalsignals.com/african_clandestines.htm
Full text access to recent issues for those at institutions subscribing to
the print journal. Ask your librarian for the username and password. The
articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The PDF files are very large.
http://www.journals.cup.org/
Excerpt from a 1999 draft essay by Prof. Landau, History
Dept., Yale University. To be pub. in "Images and Empires: Visuality in
Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa," edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah
Kaspin). (H-Africa's Africa Forum #6)
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/africaforum/Landau.html
In French. History of
pirates in the
Indian Ocean (with bibliography). The
Aux Colonies
section has posters, illustrations from the Paris and Marseille Colonial
Expositions and cover photos of the colonial era newspaper, Le Petit
Journal (Paris), a chronology of French colonial history. From a
site based in Saint-Denis, Ile de La Réunion. Maintained by "Appollo et Den."
http://www.guetali.fr/home/appollod/sommaireperso.ht
Accounts of archaeological excavations and information on the people and
culture of Jenné. The project leaders include Rod and Susan McIntosh from Rice
University's Anthropology Dept. A goal is to save archaeological information
from destruction by erosion. Jenné is the earliest known urban settlement
south of the Sahara and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Photos, news, teaching
resources, information on Mali and archaeology. Links to a historical
geography unit
for grade 6 on Timbuktu and the Niger River by Ginny White.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/index.html
In French. The site
Togo Contact from the Centre SYFED-REFER de Lomé (a research network) has
photographs and some text from Marguerat's book, Lome un siecle d'images,
1884-1990 (Lomé : Presses de l'Universite du Benin, [1993-1996, v. 1-2)
which is an economic history of Lomé. Shows hotels, business leaders,
factories, rail/air transport, markets, craftsmen, etc.
"The treatment of twins in West Africa is particularly unusual, possibly
due to the high twin rate in this area." Includes twin myths,
a history of Cameroon with bibliography, a
slide show of
Cameroon scenes and art work. Site by Rachael Sydenham-Ndi,an
undergraduate at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, working on
an honour's
thesis in the Archaeology Department. http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ndi/
Paper prepared for the Leadership for Environment and Development
1997
conference.
Paper: http://www.lead.org/lead/training/international/zimbabwe/1997/papers/d1matowan.html
About LEAD:
http://www.lead.org/lead/about_lead.htm
Miller's American Historical Association Presidential Address, 8 January
1999. "A much longer, slightly differently focused text with full
documentation will be published in the first issue for 1999 of the
American Historical Review." The oral presentation is hosted by the
Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS). http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/jmahapa.htm.
Slide show with study questions, profile of Samora Machel, visit with the
Mozambique Ambassador, interview with a Portuguese soldier in Mozambique, page
on history. Prepared for a World Studies class at James Logan High School,
Union City, California by David Forrest.
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Mozambique/Mozambique.html
In Portuguese. Annotated directory of web sites about Mozambique, arranged
by subjects including traditional stories, photographs, history,
etc. Based on a column by Neeleman in the e-newsletter, NoTMoc - Notícias
de Moçambique. Maintained by Wim Neeleman. http://www.tropical.co.mz/~wim/historia/index.html
Site on Tanzania press freedom; does not work in the Netscape browser. Has
a slide show on the press history of Tanzania "From Msimulizi to Majira. From
Afrika Kwetu to the Zanzibar Voice. From 1888 to the present." Has
full text documents in Adobe
PDF. http://www.msimulizi.com/
"The Media History of Tanzania" (by Martin Sturmer, Ndanda
Mission Press, Ndanda 1999, 979 kb).
"Watchdog in Chains: Media Regulations in Tanzania from their Colonial
Beginnings to the Era of Democratisation" (by Ayub Rioba and Martin
Sturmer, in: Stefan Brüne [ed.]: Neue Medien und Öffentlichkeiten, Schriften
des Deutschen Übersee Instituts, Hamburg 2000, 128 kb).
In Adobe PDF.
32 p.
1998 interview with Myers, an environmental scientist and Fellow at Green
College, Oxford University. He was a
colonial administrator in Kenya in 1958 and has played a leading role in
alerting the world to the loss of biodiversity. Includes Myers' photographs of
Kenya's
wildlife. [KF] http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Myers/myers-con0.html
Contains the following reference works: (1) Guide to the Sources of
Nigerian History at the National Archives of Nigeria, Enugu (1991) (2) A
General Reference Index to the Records at the National Archives, Enugu (1991)
(3) Special List of General Reports (Administrative and Departmental) in the
National Archives, Enugu, 1900-1956 (1988) (4) An Index to Intelligence
Reports, Anthropological Reports, Assessment Reports and Re-organisation
Reports in the National Archives, Enugu (1992) (5) Descriptive Index to
Records Relating to the Economic History of Nigeria 1900-1965 (1993) (6)
Descriptive Index to Records Relating to the Military History of Nigeria
(1993). On the website of the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin,
Germany.
http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/inside/orient/nae
About National Geographic's TV program. Has graphics from The Life and
Work of David Livingstone (1900). In the "40....views" section, click on
the little red TV at the top to see photos from the TV program.Send a postcard
of Livingstone being attacked by a lion!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lantern/welcome.html
"The National Maritime Museum
(Greenwich, London) has the largest and best collection of maritime-related
artefacts in the world." Sections include "Slavery"
with images (and a paragraph on each image) of The Slave Trade, the
Abolition Movement, Trade with Colonial Africa and the "Scramble
for Africa." Has a timeline, a database connecting geographic
locations to historical events, research guides for those doing in depth
research. http://www.PORT.nmm.ac.uk
Sources for business history - a guide to UK history archives and a list
of reference sources
Sources for colonial history - a guide to colonial history
archives in the Commonwealth and a list of the major reference sources for
colonial history
Sources for labour history - a brief guide to labor history archives in
the UK and a list of important reference works.
Sources for military history - a guide to UK archives and reference
works
Hosts ARCHON,
Archives On-Line - "...access information on all repositories in
the United Kingdom and all those repositories throughout the world which have
collections of manuscripts which are noted on the British National Register of
Archives. In addition, archivists can access information on archival
organisations and initiatives through the pages of archivists' links." http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/archon.htm
An excellent resource for locating U.S.
archival holdings on Africa. NUCMC is a database operated by the U.S.
Library of Congress providing information on archival holdings in the U.S. To
search select: NUCMC Z39.50 Gateway to the RLIN AMC file If you can't tell from the record which repository has the
collection, select the Tagged Display option at the bottom of the page
and scroll to the end of the Tagged Display screen. [KF]
Nigeria's pre and post independence history. Part of the web site on
Nigeria of Internews, an
non-profit, formed in 1982, funded mainly by grants from
public and private foundations and incorporated in California.
http://www.internews.org/nigeria/history_main.htm
A biography, bibliography of books on Nkrumah, photographs, audio clips.
Designed by Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli for R4R productions. http://www.nkrumah.net/indexes/z1.html
Has a directory with biographical information on members, stories of life
in Northern Rhodesia, historical photographs and excerpts from the "British
South Africa Historical Catalogue & Souvenir of Rhodesia from the Empire
Exhibition, Johannesburg, 1936-1937."
http://www.niner.net/nr/
Has online images of 77 posters, part of a larger collection. Posters are
from anti-apartheid movements, South Africa under apartheid, the 1994 South
African election and Lusophone / Southern Africa liberation movements. http://www.library.nwu.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html
Articles by Dr. Pankhurst originally published in the newspaper, Addis
Tribune. Topics include World Wars I and II, medical history, Ethiopian
crosses, art, manuscripts, Lalibala, the Aksum Obelisk, Ethiopian dynastic
marriages, etc.
http://www.abyssiniacybergateway.net/ethiopia/history/pankhurst.html
"study of social and economic change in East Africa through the lens of
alcohol." Making beer, selling it, taxing it, controlling it, beer wars, etc.
A research project of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge University.
http://www.african.cam.ac.uk/ASC_home_page/pombe/title.htm
An exhibit of historical postcards of Mali (Soudan
francais) and West Africa from a cd-rom (960 francs) produced
by l'Association Images & Memoires and UNESCO. Shows Bamako, Tombouctou,
Bandiagara, women, colonial scenes, chiefs (Sidi Moctar, Behanzin, Samory
Toure en captivité, Oba of Benin, notables from Mossi, Sierra Leone, Accra).
Hosted on the Université Laval (Canada) site. http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/gersa/Images.html
Site for a public television special. Has a timeline, profiles of David
Livingstone, Cecil Rhodes; take a quiz to win the Victoria Cross. Has
lesson plans
(in MS Word) including "The Role of Racism in Victoria's Empire." [KF] http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/
An annotated by Dr. Schmidt (former Africana Librarian, Indiana
University) to print and electronic database resources. Includes a section on
History.
Published in Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O'Meara (eds.),
Africa. Third edition. ( Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1995,
pp. 413-434.) " The author would like to point out that this essay, published
in 1995 and written a year before, does not reflect some more recent
publications and web resources."
http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/schmidt.html
The raw data and documentation which records all emigrants to Liberia
between 1820-1843, brought by the American Colonization Society can be
downloaded. The
data set includes place of origin/arrival, status of individual, occupation,
name of the ship which carried the emigrant, etc. Bundled with this is the
data set, Liberian Census Data, 1843. The late,Tom Shick, Dept. of
Afro-American Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, was Principal Investigator
of this project. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Liberia
Describes the revival of Sukuma traditional arts and culture taking place
among traditional doctors, chiefs, artists, and dancers. Covers history,
politics, and religion in Usukuma,
the colonial influence on
Sukuma chiefs, a history and tour of the Sukuma Museum. Has many photographs
including historical photos. By Mark and Aimee Bessire. M. Bessire was a
Fulbright Fellow and Consusltant to the Museum.
http://photo.net/sukuma/
Article published in the Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1996 of Tayler's
1,100 mile trip on the Congo River from Kinshasa to Kisangani. Includes
excerpts from the writings of the nineteenth-century explorer, Henry
Morton Stanley, and from Joseph Conrad's, "Heart of Darkness."
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96sep/congo/congo.htm
Full text/photographs of Twain's work expressing his opposition to
imperialism. On Jim Zwick's web site, "Mark Twain's Anti-imperialist Writings:
a Guide to Online Resources."
http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/texts/bl_kls01.htm
In English and French. About the "richness, the diversity, and the
fragility" of Africa's cultural heritage. Includes German colonial
architecture in Togo and Cameroun, Swahili culture (Lamu,
Gede), missionary settlements in Southern Africa, West African forts
(Elmina, Goree, James Fort), Ethiopian Christianity, etc..
Lists World Heritage sites in Africa. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage
Centre. [KF]
http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/toc.htm
Has a search facility for the web site and for their library catalog.
Searching the web site retrieves for ex. information on Somalia. They have
bibliographies
on the Herero Uprising (Namibia 1904-1098), on British Colonial Africa and
World War II, and on Congo (Kinshasa) 1960-1965.
In French. "...un groupe de professeurs de la Faculté des sciences
sociales a créé en 1997 le Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur les sociétés
africaines (GERSA)." Hosts an exhibit of
historical Mali
postcards, part of a cd-rom on West African postcards.
http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/gersa/
Multi-disciplinary research unit on comparative studies of the Third
World. Information on members, research projects, list of
theses
(some with abstracts), publications, conferences. Site maintained by P.
Boilley and I. Mande. [KF]
Paris 7: http://www.sedet.cicrp.jussieu.fr/sedet/Afrilab/Afrhome.htm
SEDET:http://www.sedet.jussieu.fr
L'Afrique à Paris 7 site covers activities at Université Paris 7
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Research (Maîtrise-histoire, DEA, Mémoire de fin d'études) from Universite
Nationale du Benin, Universite de Ouagadougou, Universite Nationale de
Brazzaville, Universite d'Abidjan, Universite de Conakry, Ecole Normale
Superieure de Bamako, Universite de Niamey, Universite de Dakar.
The Society formed in 1999 has press releases from the Urhobo National
Forum (New York) regarding the Western Niger Delta Crisis: 1997-1999 and
clashes between the Itsekiri and Ijaws, proverbs in pidgin (youth affairs),
biographies,
environment
issues,
names and naming practices,
short stories,
British treaties, a series of lectures honoring
Mukoro
Mowoe by Professor Peter P. Ekeh, Professor Obaro Ikime, and others. Has
links to other
Urhobo organizations and to sites about writer,
Ben Okri. [KF] http://www.waado.org
The Institute "seeks to collate and connect ...researchers with an
interest in the Mambila people of the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland and their
neighbours..." "...research is primarily of an anthropological and linguistic
nature..." The site has reports on David Zeitlyn's research on kinship and
language and his annotated version of C. K. Meek's early ethnological work in
the region, and Bruce Connell's comparative study of Mambila dialects. There
is a bibliography of
anthropological, linguistic, and related research on Mambila. The site has
a short story by Jonathan W. Mangbon, (from Mambila L.G.A.) "Drink and the
Innocent Policeman" and the
History and Customs of Ntem by P. M. Kaberry and E. M. Chilver.
Documents from African and U.K.
archives include 1923 reports by Major Glasson on the Mambila with a
vocabulary list, a critique of C. K. Meek's Tribal Studies by D. A.
Percival, and Mambila stories (How people came to die, The cunning rabbit, The
beautiful girl, Why the Mambila don't eat Grey Monkey). The site was
established by Zeitlyn and Connell. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/
Full text of the book (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,
c2000. 352 p.) published in the series: Studies on the History of Society and
Culture, 37.
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/africa/white
Topics include:
"Bandages on your mouth": the experience of colonial medicine in East and
Central Africa -- "Why is petrol red?": the experience of skilled and
semi-skilled labor in East and Central Africa --
"A special danger": gender, property, and blood in Nairobi, 1919-1939 --
"Roast mutton captivity": labor, trade, and Catholic missions in colonial
Northern Rhodesia -- Blood, bugs, and archives: debates over sleeping-sickness
control in colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931-1939 --
Citizenship and censorship: politics, newspapers, and "a stupefier of several
women" in Kampala in the 1950s --
Class struggle and cannibalism: storytelling and history writing on the
copperbelts of colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo.
A great collection of scanned images of African and other paper money.
Dates vary for each country, some from 1919 to the 1990s. See French West
African currency from the 1930s and 40s or Biafra's currency. Many have
portraits of African leaders. Ronald Wise, Jr. works at Indiana University -
Purdue University Indianapolis. http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/notedir/africa.html
