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, and Mathematics in pre-colonial Hausaland, West Africa. http://www.africahistory.net
Includes issues of their newsletter, articles on "The Ancients", pages on
mathematics in Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
profiles of African mathematicians. The newsletter has bibliographies and web
sites. Maintained by Scott W. Williams, Professor, Mathematics Dept., State
Univ. of New York at Buffalo. [KF] http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amuchma_online.html
Includes brief
histories of research on ants with citations to work from the 18th-19th
centuries and chapters on Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria.
Discusses the ant's role in cocoa plant disease. Has bibliographies. By Brian
Taylor, Visiting Academic, Department of Life Science, University of
Nottingham (UK). In association with Dr. Francis S. Gilbert. [KF]
http://ibis.life.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzbt/wafants/antcover.htm
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
Includes mathematics, technology, medicine in Egypt. Maintained by
Paul Halsall, Fordham University.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
Has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes
human origins, Egyptian mathematics. Maintained by
Paul Halsall, Fordham University.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
About a documentary film on metallurgy work by the Dogon blacksmiths of
Mali. "In Mali, on the cliffs inhabited by the Dogon, an ethnoarchaeologist
and a cameraman participated in an extremely rare event : the reduction of
iron ore. The experience was filmed and is a unique testimony of a
thousand-year-old technology which has now disappeared." Directed by Eric
Huysecom, Department of Anthropology and Ecology, University of Geneva and
Bernard Agustoni, of Télévision Suisse Romande. In English and French.
http://anthropologie.unige.ch/inagina
Citations to books and journal articles. Maintained and updated by Dr.
Duncan Miller, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town. http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/material/metbib.htm
Jeff Guy for the Ministerial History Project, April 2002. "On 4 December
2002 the northern regions of South Africa will experience a total solar
eclipse. (For information on eclipses in general, and the coming eclipse see
the FEST website
http://www.fest.org.za/eclipse.html)" http://education.pwv.gov.za/sahp/articles/eclipses_in_african_history.htm
Mainly photos of volcanoes in the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Chad, the
Comores, Ethiopia, Kenya, Reunion, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire.
Some entries, (Cape
Verde, Zaire for ex.), include some information on historical
eruptions. Each entry has references to articles. One can
search
issues of the Bulletin of Volcanology by keyword. Located on the
Volcano World site which is designed to distribute remote sensing data to
non-technical users.
African volcanoes: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/africa.html
Volcano World:
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html
