Africa South of the Sahara website

Institute for African Studies(Emory)

African Studies Association

Meta-Sites

There are a number of excellent meta-sites for African Studies. Some of the most important are:

***Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources (Stanford, Karen Fung)
A huge, well-organized site covering Sub-Saharan Africa. You can search by country or topic.

African Studies: Columbia University (Joseph Caruso)
Includes Union List of African Newspapers Project: Electronic Newspapers of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Directory of Africana Scholars.

African Studies WWW (Penn. Ali Dinar) Penn produces an important website on Resources on Health and Disease in Africa

Important Organizations:

African Studies Association (Rutgers)
Professional association of U.S. African scholars.

Africa South of the Sahara has an excellent list of African organizations and programs throughout the world.

Forced Migration Online of Refugee Study Center of Oxford University pulls together a wide variety of information on displaced people thoughout the world including Africa.

Human Rights Watch

World Bank

Emory sites:

Institute of African Studies
Provides a detailed overview of African Studies at Emory including faculty, courses and special programs.

Bemba Home Page
A guide to information on Bemba, a language spoken by 5 to 6 million people in Zambia and neighboring countries, is maintained by Debra Spitulnik in the Anthropology Department.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, also know as "Voyages"
Containing records of almost 35,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1514 and 1866, this is the most extenisive database documenting the Atlantic slave trade. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage. Accompanied by extensive maps and other supplementary data.

Other Digital Resources: (Emory only)

Aluka  is an international collaborative initiative to build an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.  Aluka is a work in progress but the section African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes contains photographs, images reports, manuscripts, books etc. related to sites such as Elmina, the slave fort on the Gold Coast (Ghana). Also contains a selection of books from the Smithsonian Institution and a special section on Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa

Empire Online features a wide variety of material including:  exploration journals and logs; letter books and correspondence; periodicals; diaries; official governmentpPapers; missionary papers; travel writing; slave papers; memoirs; folk tales; exhibition catalogues and guides; Maps; Photographs; and Illustrations for the British Empire.  Not limited to Africa.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 is an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together original manuscripts and rare printed material from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world for the period 1490-2007. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic LIterature  presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Has collection of over 1100 titles dealing with slavery and large holding related to British colonies.

HINT: Check for other web sites in growing list of other research guides under African Studies and African-American Studies.