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Privately owned Benin daily.

his category contains photographs of the Dogon people of Mali by the Dutch anthropologist Wouter van Beek (W.E.A. van Beek) donated to the African Studies Centre Leiden and Wikimedia Commons in 2017 and 2018. Van Beek took the present photographs in the years 1979 - 1996 and 2005 in Bandiagara, Banani, Mopti, Sangha and Tireli (Mali).

Angolan private weekly.

Angolan private weekly.

Angolan state-run national daily.

Articles on Wikipedia about the demographics of African countries.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library provides research and information to support the work of United Nations Member States. As an integral part of the UN Organization, the Library also aids in the dissemination of UN information to a wider public audience through online services, and a global depository library network.

Since 2011, conservators, photographers, and students working on the Archive of Malian Photography in Bamako have been cleaning, restoring, preserving, digitizing, and cataloging archival collections in Mali to safeguard original materials from further damage and theft, and to promote their global accessibility to research and education in the form of low-resolution digital collections online and at the Maison Africaine de la Photographie in Bamako.

After 1808, over 200,000 people were emancipated in an international effort to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. This resource is dedicated to the memories of Liberated Africans.

The South Africa Quilt History Project (SAQHP) is a trans-national research project to facilitate a network of individuals and institutions committed to creating access to digital texts and images related to South Africa's rich heritage of quiltmaking. Part of the Michigan State University (MSU) Matrix project.

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.

The African Activist Archive Project is building an online archive of primary materials - documents, photographs, artifacts, and written and oral memories - of 50 years of activist organizing in the United States in solidarity with African struggles against colonialism, apartheid, and injustice. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) / Michigan State University (MSU) website.

South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy presents first-hand accounts of anti-aparthied movement. Interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narratives tell this remarkable story. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) / Michigan State University (MSU) website.

Africa Past and Present is a podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora. The show highlights interesting and significant people, ideas, and discussions in African Studies from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) project (Michigan State University (MSU)).

Pluralism and Adaptation in the Islamic Practice of Senegal and Ghana is a digital library of multi-media resources that demonstrate how innovative Africans have been in the history of Islam and Islamic practice and how they continue to live and experience Islam. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

African Oral Narratives is a free, open access digital library containing 6 collections of oral and life histories, folklore, and songs from Ethiopia, Ghana, and South Africa. These audio and video resources capture the voices and experiences of ordinary men and women. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection by Michigan State University (MSU).

Photo galleries with a focus on West Africa. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

In this portal West Africans are shown as resourceful, original and yes, "modern" practitioners of Islam; they are important examples for teachers and students of world history. We emphasize Senegambia, a Muslim majority area set in the Sahel, and Ghana, a Muslim minority country set in the forest region. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection.This gallery presents documents, maps, images and audio interviews dealing with the interactions of Saint Louis's French Catholic communities, Muslim majority, the French administration, and Freemasons in the late 19th and 20th centuries. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

The Qadiri community of Shaykh Buh Kunta originated in 1883 when Abu (“Buh”) Muhammed ben Abu Naama Kunta, a descendant of the prestigious Kunta family, established himself in Ndiassane, Senegal, with a small group of followers. This gallery presents audio interviews with Kunta family members and followers, images, and documents (including newspaper articles) to illuminate the history and contemporary dynamics of this Qadiri community. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

The Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa digital library contains archival and research materials that explore Islamic practices in the West African countries of Senegal and Ghana. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

The World Bank Group Open Knowledge Repository, or OKR, is your source for development publications and research. Download more than 4000 research documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, including books and flagship reports on poverty, employment and economic growth.

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

The African Ceremonies Collection is a comprehensive selection of images covering more than 30 years of fieldwork carried out by U.S.-born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher, two photographers who have dedicated their lives to recording traditional cultures throughout Africa. Their work has taken them to some of the most remote corners of the continent where they won the trust and support of people, thus gaining them access to sacred ceremonies and traditions little known to the outside world.

The University of Naples L Orientale (UNO) included its collection of field notes, reports, and images from the archaeological excavations and survey at Bieta Giyorgis and other sites in the Aksum region (Tigrai, Ethiopia) in the World Heritage Sites collection.

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.

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.

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.

Archaeological Field Data from Excavations at Jenne-jeno and Djenné, Mali.

The Lamu Island Collection of the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) includes photographs taken by David Coulson. These images depict Swahili life and culture, a culture which has been evolving since the 7th century, AD. Lamu, one of Kenya's original Swahili settlements, is located in the Lamu Archipelago, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The David Coulson Africa Heritage Collection represents several decades of photographic documentation beginning in the 1980s. 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, and ritual and everyday social practices within these contexts, including everyday life in the Kalahari Desert, a major Rock Art landscape.

Lucy Lloyd an Wilhelm Bleek collected a unique and expansive archive of stories, drawings, and watercolors about |xam and !kun peoples and language. The project resulted in more than 13 000 notebook pages of narrative as well as genealogies, maps, and illustrations of |xam and !kun observations of daily life.

Breuil was captivated by the rock art of southern Africa. When he next visited Africa, he stayed for two years. He visited Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Belgian Congo, Angola, and Namibia, but his focus was primarily on Brandberg and the White Lady. Breuil spent weeks in the harsh African sun sketching and tracing this rock painting.

The images in this collection are from a survey conducted by the Getty Conservation Institute documenting different examples of earthen architecture at risk in North and West Africa, including Mali, Morocco, and Egypt.

The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) has been digitizing their collection of field notes and images from excavations at Kilwa Kisiwani in southern Tanzania. These excavations were carried out by Neville Chittick, the first Director of the BIEA, during the 1960s and early 1970s.

The BIEA Somalia Archive includes field notes, images and slides from an expedition directed by Neville Chittick between 1974 and 1984. His expedition covered Mogadishu and sites surrounding this large, historic city, as well as sites along the coast of Somalia.

Corona Thornycroft spent much of her life finding and recording rock painting sites throughout central Zimbabwe, particularly in the Wedza and Marondera areas, near where she lived.

The Getty Conservation Institute, a program of The J. Paul Getty Trust, and the West African Republic of Benin's Department of Cultural Patrimony worked together during the mid-1990's to conserve fifty seriously damaged bas-relief panels that once adorned the Salle des Bijoux (Hall of Jewels) in the Historic Museum at the Royal Palaces of Abomey, a World Heritage Site.

The Engaruka Collection of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) includes photographs, drawings, and fieldwork notes from the numerous archaeological surveys conducted by the institute former Director, J. E. G. Sutton, and from the excavation undertaken in 1986 by Peter Robertshaw, the Assistant Director of the institute at the time.

The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Axum Archive is comprised of images and slides from the excavations directed by Neville Chittick in northern Ethiopia from1972-74. These excavations focused primarily on Axum' s residential and burial sites. Chittick's work in Axum was cut short by the Derg Revolution that overthrew Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's the last emperor, in 1974.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ASKIA (Access to Scientific Knowledge In Africa) database provides access to many (scientific) publications. You can search for a country name, and limit the results to the availability of full-text.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

A directory of links to education, government, ministries, Algerian embassies, chambers of commerce, journals, radio, TV, and more.

Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. Our purpose is to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide.

The Global Slavery Index provides a map, country by country, of the estimated prevalence of modern slavery, together with information about the steps each government has taken to respond to this issue. This information allows an objective comparison and assessment of both the problem and adequacy of the response in 167 countries.

The Global Slavery Index provides a map, country by country, of the estimated prevalence of modern slavery, together with information about the steps each government has taken to respond to this issue. This information allows an objective comparison and assessment of both the problem and adequacy of the response in 167 countries.

The online catalogue of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.

UN-backed radio station and news site.

DRC news site.

DRC news site.