Understanding Global Cultures

Maps
- AfricaMap -- Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
UMD Library Catalogue
- JSTORE
country profiles
- Africa -- CIA World Factbook
- Africa -- U.S. Department of State
- Africa -- CountryWatch
- Africa -- Lonely Planet
- Africa -- BBC News
- Africa -- NationMaster.com
- Africa -- Eldis -- Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
  - Africa South of the Sahara
Africa -- Council on Foreign Relations

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Commonwealth Foundation
U.S. International Information Programs: Africa --U.S. policy and issues focusing on Africa south of the Sahara Desert
BBC News timeline
CNT news timeline
CountryReports.org
economist.com
GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk
The Library of Congress
- Portals to the World
- Country Studies
your-nation.com
International Network for Higher Education in Africa

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newspapers
- AllYouCanRead.com
- The New York Times Knowledge Network
- The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > Africa >
- OnlineNewspapers.com
- topix.net » Front Page » World News » Africa »
- African Press Network for the 21st Century
radio
- OneWorld Radio
- The World -- BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston
video
- "Ogoni Refugees" -- PBS, The New Americans Series
Adminet -- Africa
Africa -- NationMaster.com
food
- Nigerian cuisine -- Wikipedia
  - Cookbook:African cuisines
- World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
- Nigeria -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
- World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > Africa
- WORLD FOOD AFRICA

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religion
the arts
- Timeline of Art History > Africa, Guinea Coast > -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- El Anatsui: Gawu: National Museum of African Art (Ghana) -- National Museum of African Art
- The Art of African Exploration -- Smithsonian Institution Libraries

holidays

national anthem

national-anthems.net / with lyrics

thenationalanthems.com

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architecture

Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of Africa -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.

cities

tba

Cities Around the World -- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

articles

"Amina Lawal Must Not Face Death by Stoning" -- Amnesty International

images / photo gallery

World Digital Library: Africa -- UNESCO

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WebSites
- Famous African People
- Africa south of the Sahara
- Al-Islam.org -- Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP)
- NESCO: Social and Human Sciences
  - Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
  - H-Net Discussion Networks -- Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE
    - H-AfResearch -- Primary Sources in African Studies
    - H-Africa -- African History and Culture
    - H-AfrPol -- Current African Politics
    - H-Gender-MidEast -- Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Asia, Iran, and the Mediterranean.
    - H-West-Africa -- West African History and Culture
  - UNESCO WebWorld Portals >> Observatory Portal on the Information Society >> Regions >> [International] >> Africa >>
- Selected Online Resources for Islam -- Pluralism Project, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University
- Echoes of Africa -- musical clips and information about musical instruments across Africa -- BBC
- Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa
- African Union
- culture-bound syndromes
  - Aiyiperi
  - brain fag
- International Council of African Museums
- Africa's Conflict Zones -- Council on Foreign Relations
- Sudan's Troubled History -- Council on Foreign Relations
- CFR.org Map: Horn of Africa -- Council on Foreign Relations
- Africa -- PBS
- The Africa Guide
- Africa on RootsWorld
- Africa Governance and Advocacy Project -- Open Society Institute
- Chatham House Research: Middle East and North Africa
- The Globalization Research Center-Africa -- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
PowerPoint Slides

Ottoman Empire Map

from Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War

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