African Media Program: Developed by the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, the AMP’s on-line searchable database provides educators with access to information about more than 14,000 Africa related films, videos, and DVDs. Information provided includes basic data on each entry, its quality, appropriate audience and distributor information.
http://africanmedia.msu.edu/
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent. Developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site provides educators with a wonderful database of digitized photos and music recordings from across Africa.
http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
AfricaFocus Bulletin: Selects high-quality analysis of current events from Africa. An online archive is available, along with a listserv distributing current reports.
http://www.africafocus.org/about.php
African Voices: Web-based educational resources based on African Voices, a permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/
African Odyssey Interactive: The African Odyssey Interactive [AOI] website is an initiative of the Kennedy Center Education Department’s ARTSEDGE Program and contains arts and education information and resources for artists, teachers, and students of African arts and culture.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/
Africa South for the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources. The most comprehensive searchable database of Internet resources on Africa currently available to educators. This data-base was developed by Karen Fung, Africana librarian, Stanford University.
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
Art and Life in Africa Online contains information about African art and culture. Some of the material on this site has been adapted from similar material developed for the Art and Life in Africa CD-ROM being produced at The University of Iowa. Additionally, some material is specific to this site (and not found on the CD), as noted below. Links to further resources on the web have been added where appropriate.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html
African Online Digital Library: A portal to multiple websites with multimedia primary materials and educational resources about Africa, published jointly by MATRIX and the African Studies Center at Michigan State University.
Pambazuka News: Weekly focus for social Justice in Africa. Features many African non-governmental organizations and commentators.
African Action: The oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs. They produce excellent analyses of African issues and U.S. policy towards Africa.
http://www.africaaction.org/index.php
TransAfrica Forum: a very important Washington D.C.-based advocacy group on African and African Diaspora issues.
http://www.transafricaforum.org/
Bureau of African Affairs, United States Department of State
Official U.S. policy statements and documents about African affairs.
http://www.state.gov/p/af/
Web-Based African News Services
Africa News Now http://africanewsnow.com
All Africa News Service http://allafrica.com
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Network-Africa)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc115?OpenForm&rc=1
BBC Africa Service http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/default.stm
African Newspapers On-Line
Electronic Newspapers of Africa
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/newspapers.html#F
U.S. and European Newspapers with some African Coverage
Christian Science Monitor: http://csmonitor.com/
Guardian (London): http://guardian.co.uk/guardian/
Le Monde (Paris/English Ed.): http://www.lemonde.fr/
New York Times: http://nytimes.com/
Observer (London): http:///www.observer.co.uk/
Washington Post: http://washingtonpost.com/
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