Africana Studies: Gateways to Resources
Links to Other Electronic Resources for Africana Studies
Africa Resource
A portal with links to several online peer-reviewed journals, as well as bibliographies, poetry, biographies, autobiographies, and news items dealing with Africa and the diaspora. Binghamton University Professor
Nkiru Nzegwu is one of the site's creators. (Africa Resource Center)
Africa Web Links: An Annotated Resource List
Organized by topic, in order to facilitate browsing, Africa Web Links lists quality websites of interest to students of Africa. (University of Pennsylvania)
African American Experience
This database is accessible via the New York State Library. Residents of New York state and state employees may apply for a New York State Library card, which will enable access to this database. Covers African American culture and history. Includes entries from several African American encyclopedias, WPA narratives, primary source documents, digitized books and articles. (New York State Library)
African Population Database Documentation
A report on how the population data was compiled. Also includes a link for you to request the ability to download the data. Appendices include some interesting population maps. (University of Leeds, Colombia University, United Nations Environment Programme)
AllAfrica.com
This website posts more than 1000 news stories about Africa in English and French daily. You can read international headlines, or browse for stories by country, or subject. Website interface in English and French. (AllAfrica Global Media, Mauritius)
American Memory: African American History
Provides links to the 16 collections of materials in the Library of Congress detailing African American life and culture. Highlights include slave and other personal narratives, sheet music, sound recordings of the blues, pamphlets, and collections on Jackie Robinson, Fredrick Douglass, and Zora Neale Hurston. Rich source for primary resources. (Library of Congress)
Bahamian Studies Online
“A web resource that provides information on scholarly writings in the human sciences about the Bahamas. BSO hosts a database of scholars who have studied the Bahamas and books, articles, chapters and conference papers written about the country.” Includes some links to full-text. (Bahamian Studies Online)
Contemporary Africa Database
Provides entries on prominent contemporary Africans and institutions, as well as a chronology of important dates. Not updated since September 2006. (Africa Centre, UK)
eBlackStudies
Contains a series of reports on the state of Africana Studies programs in the United States. Useful for gathering statistics on the number and types of programs dealing with African American Studies, African Studies, Black Studies, and African Diaspora Studies. (H-Afro-Am)
Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
The Kamusi Project is a free English-Swahili dictionary. Unfortunately due to a lack of funds (as of January 2006), it appears not to be adding new entries. However, it is still possible to use the dictionary. Also includes some information about learning Swahili. (Yale University)
Library of the Society of Friends Catalogue
Search the Quakers’ online library catalog for 18th and 19th century literature on the anti-slavery movement. Also of interest is their reader’s guide, ”Library sources on Quakers and the origins of the abolition movement.” (Society of Friends)
MPI Data Hub
Provides data collected by the non-profit think tank Migration Policy Institute based in Washington, DC. Includes numerous maps generated from US Census data and international sources on immigration, refugees, migration, remittances etc. in the United States and abroad. Links to the Migration Information Source, an e-journal, as well as several policy papers written by the MPI. (Migration Policy Institute)
Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World
Lists websites and databases by country. (Library of Congress)
Sub Saharan African Statistics
Links to national statistical agencies in Africa. (Africa Development Information Services)
World History Matters
Brings together a number of different websites dealing with Africa and the diaspora, including a number of excellent digitization projects from around the world. (Center for History and New Media, George Mason University)