Microfilm publisher. Sells 19th and 20th century journals and archival collections for African studies and other areas. http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/

• Africa Through Western Eyes. Part 1: Original Manuscripts from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library

• Church Missionary Society Archive -  See Section IV: Africa Missions

Has a register of researchers on African Independent Churches, African Indigenous Churches, African Initiated Churches, African Instituted Churches with links to their homes pages or e-mail. Includes a Discussion Forum, links to full text articles. Maintained by Steve Hayes in Pretoria, South Africa. http://www.geocities.com/missionalia/aic.htm

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.
 

The web site is a glimpse of the project which includes narratives (case studies), an image and ethnographic database, and a geographic information system. The case studies are: 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

The missions originated in 1911 when founding father, William C. Haas, went to central Africa. They now operate in eight African countries (Congo-Kinshasa, Liberia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Zambia). They have worked in Chad since 1925 and in the CAR since the 1920s. Has a brief history of the CAR and history of the CAR mission. Based in Cleveland, Ohio. [KF] http://www.bmm.org/

"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. Includes traditional religions, Islam, Christianity. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/

Brief istory and personal account (3 pp.) by Dr. Brody, owner of Great Epic Books. Includes a photograph of Cardinal Charles Lavigerie. http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/march2000a.html

Includes biographies of missionaries serving in Africa.
Jacques Laval (1803-1864) served in Mauritius - http://www.total.net/~grenaud/Laval.htm

Daniel Brottier (1876-1936) served in Senegal - http://www.total.net/~grenaud/Brottier.htm
François Libermann (1802-1852) -   http://www.total.net/~grenaud/liberman.htm
See also their Paris office, archives, and journal, Memoire Spiritain, described in the section: Libraries & Archives in Europe.

"The database aims to record all foreign missionary journals published by British mission agencies from the eighteenth century up to 1960." So far has records of over 260 periodicals indicating archived location (in the U.K.), their targeted readership and regional coverage. Locate journals covering a particular African country, browse the titles, or search under several fields. The CWC is based in Cambridge, U.K. [KF] http://namp.divinity.yale.edu/NAMP.taf

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; has photos of missionaries, mission schools. Search under mission in the box labeled Schlagwort. http://www.stub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/

"...an international project of biographies of "....Africans chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Christian communities in Africa." Advisory Council members include at least eleven African scholars and religious leaders. Some biographies are from Mark R. Lipschutz and R. Kent Rasmussen's, Dictionary of African Historical Biography, 2nd edition, 1989. Includes links to religion in Africa sites. Part of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Conn. [KF] http://www.gospelcom.net/dacb/index.htm

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. The Archive includes photographs, films, maps, museum objects. http://www.dur.ac.uk/Library/asc/sudan/index.html
 

Durham University Library has holdings of books, periodicals and ephemeral material listed in their online catalog

Has a good collection of African journals on religion. http://www.pitts.emory.edu/

Includes full text papers such as
Picturing the Soul: Missionary encounters in the late 19th and early 20th century South Africa by Alan Kirkaldy and Albert Wirz. http://www.museums.org.za/sam/conf/enc/

Has the table of contents for this journal (published in Lausanne, Switzerland) on missionary history in Africa. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/emorier/

In French. Order serving since 1909 in the Congo (Kinshasa/DRC). They now work in 22 African countries. Has a biography of founder, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and a history of their Congo work since 1909. http://www.ic.cd/feccongo/
See also the LaSalle.org site for a directory of schools in Africa.

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 Congolese, 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

Moderated discussion group for African history and humanities. Sponsored by the Univ. of Illinois-Chicago and Michigan State.

To subscribe to H-Africa, send email to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu

Leave the subject area blank. In the message area put:
sub H-Africa yourfirstname yourlastname, your institution

 

Its web site (http://h-net.msu.edu/~africa/) includes past messages (posted since March 1995), book reviews, tables of contents lists, a key word search engine, and past discussion topics such as - African islamic history

Has full-text sources. Maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. Includes Africa and Islam, Ethiopia and Christianity. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
See also Halsall's Internet Islamic History Sourcebook

An introduction to the history of Sudanic Africa (the states of Songhay,
Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland.) Discusses trade and Islam. Photographs by Lucy Johnson illustrate - Images of Islam (Grand Mosque at Jenne), River Scenes, Daily Life, The Dogon, Traditions and Beliefs, The Desert. Has multiple-choice tests. Project arises from a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to Xavier University's Center for the Advancement of Teaching (New Orleans, LA). Site by J. Rotondo-McCord.   http://www.xula.edu/~jrotondo/Kingdoms/

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. (London, 1857). Full-text of the book. Part of Project Gutenberg. Includes an 1858 review of the book in Harper's Magazine. [KF] http://tom.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/lookup?num=1039

About the Livingstone Centre in Blantyre where Livingstone was born. Includes a biography. http://www.biggar-net.co.uk/livingstone/

Nubia Salvage Project. The Institute participated in the 1960s UNESCO effort to rescue archaeological sites from the rising waters of the Aswan High Dam. Artifacts recovered from that effort were presented in two exhibitions -
Nubia, Its Glory and Its People, 1987 Exhibition. Description and history by Bruce Williams. Includes religious history.
Vanished Kingdoms of the Nile, The Rediscovery of Ancient Nubia, 1992 Exhibition. Includes an image of a Nubian princess ca. 1320 B.C.
Nubia Slavage Project: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/Nubia.html

Photographic Archives. Seven historical photographs from the Sudan (Nubia). A sample of photographs taken by Institute expeditions in the early 20th century.
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/SUDAN/Sudan_Gen.html

Articles by Dr. Pankhurst originally published in the newspaper, Addis Tribune. Topics include the History of Ethiopian Religious Art and Manuscripts, Ethiopian crosses, art, manuscripts, the Churches of King Lalibala. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/ethiopia/history/pankhurst.html

Authoritative historical essays, by Professor Parsons of the University of Botswana, History Department. Has a chapter on Religion. Includes primary documents. http://ubh.tripod.com/

Exhibition on "the Mourides, a mystical Muslim movement originating in Senegal, West Africa." Topics, illustrated by paintings and other media, include the rise of Islam, a biography of Amadu Bamba, the Mouride work ethic, Mouride women, the Mouride global networks, the saint's tomb at Touba.
 

Also
- the devotional sanctum of Serigne Faye with paintings by Assane Dione.
- a Mouride mosque and residential complex made entirely of straw
- followers of Sheikh Ibra Fall who are "apostles of hard work"
A book and an educational program accompnay the exhibit organized by the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles.

For teachers there is a curriculum guide and online exhibition. http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/passporttoparadise.htm

An annotated by Dr. Schmidt (former Africana Librarian, Indiana University) to print and electronic database resources. Includes a section on Religion and Philosophy. 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 well-known branch of the New York Public Library devoted to the history, society, and culture of people of African descent has an online exhibition, the Schomburg Legacy, Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century.  It features art work, historical documents and letters, the Herskovits Collection, the John Henrik Clarke Collection, the Ralph J. Bunche Collection and others.  The Schomburg's exhibition, Images of African-Americans from the 19th Century, includes a photograph of Bishop Sameul A. Crowther, first African Anglican bishop. [KF] http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

The Africa Section is especially strong in African language publications, it holds the Hardyman Madagascar Collection. Has a page on locating missionary & church archives in the U.K and photographs. The librarian in charge is Mrs. Barbara Turfan. One can search their online catalog. The catalog is also accessible by telnet: telnet://lib.soas.ac.uk
The username is: library
Your web browser must have a telnet program or use a separate telnet program.
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library

Indexes about 40 Seventh Day Adventist journals and magazines. "Currently the index covers the years 1980-81, 1983- ." Search for citations to articles by keyword, author, title, obituaries. The index is produced at the James White Library, Andrews University. http://143.207.5.3:82/
Also has citations to obituaries.

"Kafulafuta mission was part of the colonial enterprise in British Central Africa, and it largely framed the colonial experience of the rural Copperbelt's Lamba people." Full text of a paper presented 1999 at the Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies. Dr. Siegel teaches in the Sociology Department, Furman University, Greenville, SC. http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/BrianSiegel.htm

"formed to further the study of and research into Christian mission and related topics in Southern Africa." Publishes a journal, Missionalia. Has full text articles from older issues of Missionalia, and an annotated directory of Christian mission and mission studies sites. The African independent churches section has a directory of researchers, a discussion forum, and links to full text papers and articles. Based in Menlo Park, South Africa. http://www.geocities.com/missionalia/index.html

A selected list of some Africa-related missionary records in microform held in U.S. libraries. Designed for Stanford users, especially undergraduates. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/missionarymicroforms.html

Describes the revival of Sukuma traditional arts and culture taking place among traditional doctors, chiefs, artists, and dancers. Covers religion in Usukuma, healing practices, chiefs and royal history, 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/

In  English and French. About the "richness, the diversity, and the fragility" of Africa's cultural heritage. Includes Christians in Ethiopia and Mission Settlements in South Africa. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. [KF] http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/toc.htm

UNESCO presents its la Mémoire virtuelle du Monde / Virtual Memory of the World program for the preservation of archival and library holdings world-wide. Has Eritrea: Ancient Manuscripts - with beautiful illustrations of manuscripts.   http://www.unesco.org/webworld/africa/africa.htm

"the official archival repository for The United Methodist Church." Based in Madison, New Jersey at Drew University. http://www.gcah.org/
Has online guides to the Church archives and guide to collections such as -
 

the Herbert Cookman Withey Collection (late 19th c. in Angola)
Bishop John McKendree Springer Papers (correspondence with African nationals, the Congo Protestant Council, 1920-1961, Angola, Central and Southern, Congo, Liberia, Rhodesia, Southeast Africa)
Roger Stilman Guptill Collection (Belgian Congo, training of African missionaries)

See also United Methodist Archives Center (Drew University Library)
For a brief description of holdings see Special Collections (includes British newspapers and periodicals from the British Empire). http://www.depts.drew.edu/lib/uma.html

Has a list of their publication series: Enquêtes et documents d'histoire africaine. Lists publications on missionaries / religion. http://juppiter.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/publications/pub_afrique.html

Holds the Church Missionary Society Archives. Covers missions in Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Nyanza, Ruanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda. The Society is now called the Church Mission Society. http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/specialcoll/archives_cms.htm

(University of Helsinki, Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper 1/99). See the list of publications and Weiss' paper.
Publications List: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/kmi/julka.htm
Weiss Paper: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/kmi/wp199.htm#I. Introduction

Special Collections has on Online Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections at the Yale Divinity Library and a Finding Aid Database. There is a list of Africa-related individual and organization collections. The library has an excellent collection of missionary society records in microform. Some of these microform collections are also held by the Center for Research Libraries and other U.S. libraries. http://www.yale.edu/divinity/lib/index.html