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The Tanzania Heritage Project is a cultural initiative dedicated to the preservation and celebration of Tanzania’s rich musical heritage. We contribute to the preservation, digitization, and restoration of priceless audio collections and endangered heritage in Tanzania. We also work with partners to support and promote modern-day cultural expression that contributes to keeping Tanzanian creativity and art vibrant and accessible.

Database providing full-text reports on development issues in Tanzania. Set up by the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in Dar es Salaam.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

The basic aim of the TRC is to give the study of textiles, clothing and accessories their proper place in the field of the humanities and social sciences. The TRC collection of textiles, garments and accessories includes items from all over the world, literally from the Andes, via Zanzibar, to Japan. The collection now includes some 19500 items and is still rapidly growing. The objects are used for research, teaching, exhibitions and publications. The catalogue is published on line, with photographs and a brief description of all the items.

The Africa Report is one of the leading news organisations on the continent. We are known for our impartial, authoritative stance. The Africa Report is published by Jeune Afrique Media Group (JAMG).

The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media. The AMP is a project from Michigan State University's (MSU) African Studies Center, a Title VI National Resource Center in African Languages and Area Studies.

Provides documentation and other information about motion pictures, television movies and episodes from television series related to Ancient Egypt and Egyptology.

Offers a great deal of bibliographical data on Botswana.

The Centenary Project is an initiative of the Pan-Atlantic University (PAU). Since its inception in 2014 (the year which marked 100 years of Nigeria's existence as a geographic entity), its aim has been to digitally capture and showcase the cultural and historical expressions of the Nigerian nation.

Bulawayo-based, government-owned daily.

Provides information about the history of the cinema, the FESPACO festival and feature films from Burkina Faso.

Privately owned newspaper.

The Daily Maverick is run by an independently owned, private company.

Provides information about Ethiopian films and directors, news footage and film resources. EFI supports Ethiopian filmmakers and the Ethiopian film industry and gives training and advice on production management, marketing, distribution and information sharing.

Reports from every single trial session in the ICC Kenyan cases.

The Heinz-Rüther Collection is a unique attempt at capturing the spatial domain of African heritage by accurately recording its physical and architectural nature and dimensions. Sites are seen in the context of their physical environment and landscapes surrounding sites are documented based on satellite and aerial imagery, wherever possible.

Government-owned daily.

The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies (HIPS) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit policy research and analysis institute based in Mogadishu, Somalia.

A news and information platform for the South African Heritage Sector. It is a volunteer driven initiative that relies on content contributions from members of the heritage community.

Official portal of the Governnent of Lesotho.

News and information about Liberia.

Of the several newspapers published in Namibia, The Namibian is most widely circulated.

Privately owned.

‘The Niles’ project was initiated by Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT) to promote independent, balanced and accurate coverage of Sudanese and South Sudanese affairs. It sponsors training to advance reporters’ skills and publishes their work.

Provides information about the peoples living in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, links to other sites and some full-text documents.

Recent news from the Gambia.

The Rwanda Documents Project makes available primary-source material on the political and social history of Rwanda from international and national agencies, governments and courts from 1990 to the present.

Provides information about laws and legal matters in Seychelles.

Offers a free ebook called Paying the Price: The Sierra Leone Peace Process, edited by David Lord (2000).

The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province.

Privately owned weekly.

The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. It is one of the titles under the Independent News & Media South Africa Group.

The Swahili Story Map provides the means to explore some 180 historic Swahili sites along the East African coast. The Story Map is based on the the "Swahili GIS Database", which gives the location and archaeological information of over 180 Swahili sites.

Offers courtroom updates from the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

A project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support UNESO. It makes significant primary materials from all countries and cultures available on the Internet.

Privately owned weekly.

Thomas Sankara, a former leader of Burkina Faso (1983-1987) with books, films, speeches, interviews and articles (in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian).

The Timbuktu Manuscripts Collection offers an unparalleled window into societies and intellectual traditions of the Western Sudan from the late 15th century onward. The manuscripts are now under grave threat from a variety of sources, both natural and human.

Times Higher Education (THE) is the leading provider of higher education data for the world's research-led institutions. Our work with individual clients builds on the foundations of our World University Rankings, which have been adopted as a geo-political indicator as well as an aid to strategic management of institutions and a crucial factor in the study choices made by millions of students around the world.

Times Live is part of the Times Media Group.

The Trade Law Centre NPC (tralac) is an independent, capacity building think tank. Established in 2001, tralac is a non-profit organization, registered in South Africa. tralac builds trade-related capacity in Africa; assisting countries to improve trade governance and inclusive policy processes to ensure that trade contributes to sustainable development outcomes.

In-depth reports by the German Bertelsmann Stiftung on countries’ political and economic development.

From villages in rural India to the corridors of power in Brussels, Transparency International gives voice to the victims and witnesses of corruption. We work together with governments, businesses and citizens to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals.

Featured in this collection are images capturing the cultural heritage of various sites, including the ritual art of the Stone Churches of Lalibela and various ruins in Niger and coastal Kenya. Coulson also depicts in this collection ritual and everyday social practices within these contexts, including everyday life in the Kalahari Desert, a major Rock Art landscape.

Has information on Malouf, Mezwed, Salhi and other artists.

The USGS annual reviews from the 'Minerals Yearbook Volume III: Area Reports-International-Africa and the Middle East' are designed to provide timely statistical data on mineral commodities in various countries. This is an extra link under Morocco to provide the data from Western Sahara.

UBOS is the principal data collecting, processing, analysing and disseminating agency responsible for coordinating and supervising the National Statistical System.

UgCLA is a networking organization for community libraries in Uganda.

Ugandan Recordings is a Wandering Songs project that came into existence in August 2013 to uncover and document music from northern Uganda.

The UINESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Global Education Database provides internationally comparable data on all levels of education for more than 200 countries and territories.