ANTH 232: Peoples and Cultures of Africa

"This website, edited by William Minter, features high-quality analysis and progressive advocacy on African issues, with particular attention to priority issues affecting the entire continent. The heart of the website is the AfricaFocus Bulletin produced and distributed one to two times a week to over 5,000 subscribers."

"Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries."

"The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa."

"Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet."

The vision of the African Union is: “An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.”

The U.S. Department of State's Web site dealing with Africa. Includes access to information on regional topics, countries, etc.

"The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) was founded by the United Nations in 1995.  Almost twenty years later, we became an independent non-profit news organisation, allowing us to cast a more critical eye over the multi-billion-dollar emergency aid industry and draw attention to its failures at a time of unprecedented humanitarian need."

"Established in 1957, the African Studies Association is the largest organization with a global membership devoted to enhancing the exchange of information about Africa."

ASSA's mission is "to promote Africa's own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora."