Newly-Added Links, 06/98
The Institute of African Linguistics is part of the Faculty "Ost- und Au§ereuropSische Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften" of the Goethe-UniversitSt Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Masks from different African ethnic groups.
This exhibit of African masks is organized by the Musee Dapper in Paris, France.
Created in 1969, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) has evolved into an internationally recognized and respected event. FESPACO became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year.
Angola:
Resources about Angola, in Portuguese.
Algeria:
On-line resources cover history, email lists, NGOs, etc.. prepared by Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity (INCORE).
Burkina Faso:
Created in 1969, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) has evolved into an internationally recognized and respected event. FESPACO became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year.
Cameroon:
Camnet is the internet service provider in Cameroun. The site also provides information on Camerounian culture, tourism, etc..
Cape Verde:
Resources about Cape Verde, in Portuguese.
Extensive reources on Cape Verde.
CĒte d'Ivoire:
INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in CĒte d'Ivoire (09/97)
Egypt:
Comprehensive list of web links for Egyptian resources.
Ethiopia:
Information about the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington DC and resources on daily news, trade and investment, tourism, etc..
Gambia:
Resources on Gambia include: news, history, and related web sites.
Ghana:
Resources on telecommunication sector in Ghana and its role in development.
Guinea:
General information on Guinean business, culture, population, travel, etc..
Guinea Bissau:
Resources about Guinea Bissau, in Portuguese.
Madagascar:
Madagascar Cultural Alliance Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Washington, D.C. in August 1985. MCA Inc. seeks to promote malagasy culture and the malagasy language with the diaspora overseas, and also with americans and others, who are interested in Madagascar. The web site includes resources on arts and crafts, music, MCA events, etc..
Mauritius:
Mauritius News, was founded in November 1983 to provide an organ to the Mauritian Community in the UK. Produced as a tabloid on a monthly basis, it is available in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, and Canada.
Mozambique
Resources about Mozambique, in Portuguese.
Nigeria:
The Guide to the Records at the National Archives, Enugu is the first Guide to be compiled by any of the branch office making up the National Archives of Nigeria. This Guide is designed to introduce searchers, far and near, to the large mass of invaluable public records available in the repositories of the Enugu Archives. Every attempt was made to include all available sources but it is possible that some source must have been over looked.
Nigeriassets.com features Major economic, financial and banking data, Monetary, credit, foreign trade, and exchange policy guidelines, and information on doing business in Nigeria
This is an in-depth analysis of the structure of the industry and the rapid developments taking place in the sector. It is an important guide for banks, investors and emerging service providers needing a broader perspective of the telecoms sector in Nigeria.
Rwanda:
This briefing brings together papers and transcriptions from 'Rwanda: the Great Genocide Debate', a conference organised by Africa Direct in London on 27 July 1997. The conference attracted delegates from Belgium, Burundi, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and the United Kingdom.
Sao Tome & Principe
Resources about Sao Tome & Principe, in Portuguese.
South Africa:
The Southern African Migration Project is a three-year, multi-faceted research programme designed to facilitate the formulation and implementation of new policy initiatives on cross-border population migration in the region and to promote public awareness on the role, status and contribution of foreign immigrants of African origin in South Africa.
Sudan:
This exhibit represents the 4,000 year feud between the Sudan and Egypt. The exhibit was run at the Institue du Monde Arabe in Paris until 08/97, and it highlights some of the rivalries and grievances which have been smouldering since the twilight of time.
Tanzania:
Resources on Swahili culture: language, cuisine, music, history, proverbs, etc..
Information provided by the Tanzania Embassy in the United Kingdom.
Tanzania High Commission Office (TANZANREP-UK) is the office in charge of diplomatic activities between the Governments of the United Republic of Tanzania and that of the United Kingdom and of the Ireland. It provides information on history, business, tourism, politics, news, and other web sites on Tanzania.
Uganda:
This report was prepared by the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) and was thoroughly discussed in two workshops comprising of NARO scientists and information management staff and then NARO top management staff together with experts from ISNAR, ICRAF, CAB, CTA, ECDPM and Makerere University.
Zambia:
includes resources on: History, The People, Geography, Vegetation, Relocation Info, Schools, Government and Politics, Gemstones, Art Directory of Links to all things Zambian.
The Lusaka Lowdown contains news, reviews and articles of interest to Lusakans and has a print run of 3000 per month. It is also distributed along the line of rail between Lusaka and the Copperbelt and Livingstone.
Resources on travel, wildlife, and general information on Zamiba.
The Zambia Legal Information Institute is managed and operated by the University of Zambia School of Law. It provides the extensive resource for Zambian case law, the laws of Zambia, the Zambian Constituition, commentary on Zambian law and other features.
COMMSPHERE is an international discussion forum on the challenges facing the future of telecommunications and other uses of the e/m radiation. COMMSPHERE receives support from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and the ITU-R. The first COMMSPHERE AFRICA has been scheduled to take place from July 20 to 22, 1998 in Dakar (Senegal).
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) programs in Africa. AFSC compiled an "Africa Connections" packet of materials - detailing the work we do and the work we support in & around Africa.
This is a virtul library about the habitat in developing countries. It is mantained by the "Forum: habitat in developing Countries", an initiative of the Library "Territorio Ambiente" of the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Torino, Italy.
The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) assists developing countries in bringing about lasting improvements in the performance of their national agricultural research systems and organizations. This site contains an directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research in Africa.
The modules of the Africaserver are thematical chapters where you can find more information on a given subject. Most modules are about the relationship Holland-Africa. The editors will keep you informed on a subject. Suggested links point to other relevant sources of information on the Internet.
An extensive resource list covers all African countries' resouces links on politics scenes such as conflicts, constitution, elections, human rights, government, etc..
For 40 years, AMREF has worked with local communities to research and alleviate the region's health problems. AMREF's mission, in partnership with communities, governments and donors, is to improve health care for the underserved in Africa through service delivery, training and research. AMREF is a field-orientated organisation that implements programmes. It does not make grants.
A repository for documents for teaching and understanding contemporary world history and the struggle for social progress. These archives are associated with Gateway to World History- a collection of resources for the study of world history, and with Images of World History- a pre-modern image archive. It includes resources on Egypt and the Maghrib, The Horn, Western Africa, Centeral Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa
This briefing brings together papers and transcriptions from 'Rwanda: the Great Genocide Debate', a conference organised by Africa Direct in London on 27 July 1997. The conference attracted delegates from Belgium, Burundi, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and the United Kingdom.
This site is designed to provide the educator with the knowledge and tools to bring the experience to the classroom.The web site includes scores of classroom activities, and handouts.
Discovery Channel School features hundreds of pages of lesson ideas and activities for 30 hours of commercial-free classroom television programming airing this season on Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel.
In this exhibit, find out more about South Africa's past and what people are doing to ensure a good future. Through five interactive timeline puzzles, you'll learn about the events that shaped the country, from its first colonization to the discovery of diamonds and gold and the turmoil of the apartheid years. You can also explore a wealth of related Web sites.
Translation of The Holy Qur'an to Swahili Language.
Named (provisionally) Thesaurus Linguae Aethiopicae, the project aims at creating machine-readable and SGML-encoded (according to the guidelines of TEI P 3) Ethiopic texts and collecting them in a corpus for further research.
African newspapers online. This Swedish site is quite up-to-date and has a reasonable list of African newspapers by country. KIOSKEN has links to news media all over the world, mainly to newspapers in the countries' own language(s).
For 40 years, AMREF has worked with local communities to research and alleviate the region's health problems. AMREF's mission, in partnership with communities, governments and donors, is to improve health care for the underserved in Africa through service delivery, training and research. AMREF is a field-orientated organisation that implements programmes. It does not make grants.
SORAC, the Society Of Research in African Cultures, was created in 1997. SORAC intends to make of Montclair State University a major center for the diffusion and promotion of African cultures and related research, not only in the State of New Jersey, but also in North America and worldwide.
Resources provided by the U.S.-Africa Business Association, Inc. which is a non-profit 501(c)(6) membership driven business association organized to promote bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Africa; and the U.S.-Africa Free Enterprise Education Foundation, Inc., which is a non-profit 501(C)(3) educational, research, and humanitarian organization
The Southern African Migration Project is a three-year, multi-faceted research programme designed to facilitate the formulation and implementation of new policy initiatives on cross-border population migration in the region and to promote public awareness on the role, status and contribution of foreign immigrants of African origin in South Africa.
Africana Libraries Newsletter (ALN) is published quarterly by the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries and the MSU African Studies Center. It carries reports on meetings of ALC, CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project) and other relevant groups plus other items of interest to Africana librarians and those concerned about information resources about or in Africa.
Resources provided by African Sun Publishing - Publishers and distributors of African world books, directories, periodicals, etc.
Hans Zell is a consultancy services to publishers and academic institutions, in particular providing advisory services and individual project management for publishers, research institutes, and the book community in Africa and in other developing countries.
Resources on African Traditional Religion that include: web links, bibliographies, and some topical issues.
AFRICA TELECOM 98 was the fourth regional telecommunications Exhibition and Forum for the Africa region to be organized by the ITU as part of its programme of regional TELECOM events, following AFRICA TELECOM 86, which was held in Nairobi, Kenya, AFRICA TELECOM 90, which was held in Harare, Zimbabwe and AFRICA TELECOM 94, which was held in Cairo, Egypt.
Reports on information-technology related activities in Africa. (in French)
This paper reviews the telecommunication networks in the Africa region (i.e. 25 countries bounded by Sudan in the North, the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, South Africa in the South, and the Island nations in the East) and proposes a way forward to the new millennium.
The Developpment of the new technologies of information and communication is a fact in the african countries too. This website offers a comprehensive vision of this evolution in the african continent in order to show the implication in spatial organization
Information on internet connectity in mainly Franco-phone Africa. (in French)
On-line resources prepared by Olivier Coeur de Roy, on conferences, projects, journals, links etc. all have to do with with information technology in Africa.
The aim of this Web site is to demonstrate to the United States Senate that there is indeed significant support behind the passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (HR 1432 / S 778). The bill is the first ever trade and investment legislation on Africa to be considered by the US Congress.
The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC) is the technical cooperation arm of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for operational and enterprise-oriented aspects of international trade development. As the United Nations focal point for technical cooperation in trade promotion ITC works with developing countries and economies in transition to set up effective trade promotion programmes for expanding their exports and improving their import operations.
On-line hotel reservations in many African countries.
The Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) acts as the Internet Service Provider since 1993, concentrating mainly on the Egyptian Universities and the education sector. EUN connects all the Egyptian Universities, the Azhar University and the American University in Cairo. EUN also connects academic and research centers and institutes as well as other governmental and non governmental organizations.
Makerere was founded as a technical school in 1922, and attained full university status in 1970. The University consists of eleven faculties and six institutes.The University also operates a Library, an Environment Research Center, a Center for Continuing Education and an Economic Policy Research Center.
NUL mission is to prepare to enter the next millennium, to foster an environment suited for the pursuit of relevant quality teaching and research using, inter alia the facilitative tools available in information technology so that the fruits of this quality teaching and research provide the basis for national capacity building meant to permeate the entire fabric of our society, and rural equally.
Information about the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Daka, Senegal
The University of Mauritius Ordinance No. 39 of 1965 defined the objects of the University, established the Provisional Council as the Supreme body in which were vested all the assets and property of the University and regulated its financial and other administrative functions.
The University began with three Schools: Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences - but as facilities developed and needs were recognised new Schools were added: Law (1967), Engineering (1969), Medicine (1970), Agricultural Sciences (1971), Mines (1973), Business and Industrial Studies (1978, at Ndola Campus), Environmental Studies (1981, at Ndola Campus), and Veterinary Medicine (1983).
Resources on African wildlife news, reports, newsletters, web sites, and jobs-related.