Africa

In the news . . .

• African Agriculture: Dirt Poor -- Nature (28 March 2012)

• 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
  
  
• Africa -- United Nations Global Issues
  
  

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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
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    •  Countries
      • Country Briefs
      • Country Profiles
  • Haroutunian, Arto der. North African Cookery. London: Century, 1985. [Meghrib: Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, Libya, Mauritania]
    
  • Van Der Post, Laurens. First Catch Your Elan:A Taste of Africa. London: Hogarth, 1978.

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• religion
  • Internet Sacred Text Archive
    • African Religions
  • The Islamic World to 1600 -- University of Calgary
  • Sacred -- British Library
    
    
• 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
  • National Museums of Kenya
    
    
• 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)
  • African Development Bank Group
  • National Museums of Kenya
  • Images of Colonialism -- Harvard College Library
  • Natural Sciences Collection -- Royal Museum for Central Africa
  • As tensions mount, there is growing concern about the unrest in Western Sahara -- The Scout Report, November 19, 2010 | Volume 16, Number 46
  • African Voices -- The Field Book Project, Smthsonian National Museum of Natural History
    
    
• PowerPoint Slides