Link collection - A Guide to Africa on the Internet

History

• Country Studies Series

  Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries. Online versions of books previously published (1988-98) by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.

  
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/

• Ethiopia Eritrea Conflict Page

  Background material to the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict.

  
  http://www.geocities.com/

• The History of East Africa

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.  

  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• The History of West Africa

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.

  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• The History of North Africa

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.
  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• The History of Central Africa

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.

  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• The History of Southern Africa

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.

  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• The History of Africa as a whole

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.

  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• The History of the Horn of Africa

  World History Archive. Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Most of the documents come from on-line distribution lists or newsgroups.

  
  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

• Libyana. Culture of Libya

  Libyan history, literature, art, music, folklore and more.

  
  http://www.libyana.org/

• Ancient Egypt Antiquities

  General history, kings, people, government and military, religion and more from ancient Egypt.

  
  http://www.touregypt.net/

• Zanzibar unveiled

  Information on Zanzibar, including recent media reports.

  
  http://www.zanzibarhistory.org/

• Namibia Library of Dr Klaus Dierks

  A website on engineering and history in Namibia based on Dr. Dierks' publications.

  
  http://www.klausdierks.com/

• Africa Timelines

  Chronology with descriptions for Ancient Africa, African Empires, African Slave Trade & European Imperialism, Anti-Colonialism, Post-Independence Africa, plus Sources for Further Study.

  
  http://web.cocc.edu/

• The Story of Africa

  Tells the history of the continent from an African perspective. Africa's top historians look at the events and characters that shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. Launched by BBC.

  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/

• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

  The TRC was set up to help deal with what happened under apartheid in South Africa. Policies, transcripts and articles from the committees of the TRC.

  
  http://www.justice.gov.za/

• Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

  Part of the Department of Asian and African studies; three disciplines: History in Africa, African linguistics and African literatures and cultures, at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. (In German)

  
  http://www.asaf.hu-berlin.de/

• Local history in Ethiopia

  Documents containing references to printed sources on local history in Ethiopia, compiled by Bernhard Lindahl and held by the Nordic Africa Institute library.

  
  /library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/

• Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa

  A reference source for everyone interested in the late 20th century history of national liberation in Southern Africa, incl. Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, and the role of the Nordic countries. 

  
  http://www.liberationafrica.se/

• Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission

  Recent and pending cases from Permanent Court Arbitration (PCA), The Hague, The Netherlands. 

  
  http://www.pca-cpa.org/

• South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy

  An educational website that provides primary source materials, newly-written narrative, and curriculum ideas for teaching high school and undergraduate students about the many generations who struggled to end apartheid and build democracy in South Africa. 

  
  http://www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/

• African Activist Archive Project (AAAP)

  AAAP preserves for history the record of activities of the US organizations and individuals that supported African struggles for freedom and had an on U.S. policy during the period 1950-1994. Compiled by the African Studies Centre at Michigan State University, USA.

  
  http://africanactivist.msu.edu/

• South African Film and Video Project (SAFVP)

  A collaboration of seven institutions in South Africa and the U.S that aim to create a database of the “moving pictures” of film and videotape media about South Africa.

  
  http://www.africanmedia.msu.edu/

• Community Video Education Trust (CVET)

  The CVET archive is a unique, publicly accessible video record of the peak of popular resistance against apartheid. 

  
  http://www.cvet.org.za/

• South African History Archive (SAHA)

  SAHA is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting and providing access to archival holdings that relate to past and contemporary struggles for justice in South Africa.

  
  http://www.saha.org.za/

• Maps of Africa to 1900

  The Maps of Africa to 1900 digital collection contains images of maps found in the University Library's (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) map collections, but also its extensive collection of 19th century atlases and geographical journals.

  
  http://images.library.illinois.edu/

• Guinea Bissau's liberated areas 1970

  Mr Knut Andreasson and Ms Birgitta Dahl visiting liberated areas in Guinea Bissau in November 1970.

  
  http://www.liberationafrica.se/

• South African History Online (SAHO)

  A non-partisan people’s history project that promotes research; to popularise South African history and to address the biased way in which the history and cultural heritage of Black South Africans has been represented in our educational and heritage institutions. 

  
  http://www.sahistory.org.za/

• Western Sahara Portal

  News and other information on Western Sahara.

  
  http://www.sahara-online.net/

• Internet African History Sourcebook

  On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented, when available, without making prejudgements about what is "African".

  
  http://www.fordham.edu/

• The Mahmoud Salih collection

  The Mahmoud Salih collection is a unique collection of historical books, maps, prints and documents on Sudan and is, for the time being, deposited at Bergen University, Norway.

  
  https://digitalt.uib.no/

• South Africa : Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy

  This website presents first-hand accounts of the political movement in South Africa. 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. Provided by the Michigan State University (MSU).

  
  http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/

• Historique du parlement du Senegal

  A paper about the parliament of Senegal with a historical aspect, by Papa Ogo Seck. (In French)

  
  http://www.memoireonline.com/

• Luís Graça. Subsídios para a história da guerra colonial.

   

  A historical website on the Colonial War, icl. many photos from the colonial era, old maps from the 50's. (In Portuguese)
  
  http://www.ensp.unl.pt/

• Eritrea Ethiopia Conflict Page

  Developed by the Eritrean Media and Information Task Force, Eritrean volunteers in the USA.

  
  http://www.dehai.org/

• Luthuli Museum - South Africa

  The mission of the Luthuli Museum is to conserve, uphold, promote and propagate the life, values, philosophies and legacy of the late Chief Albert Luthuli in the struggle against Apartheid oppression, respect for human rights as well as life devotion to non-violent resolutions to world problems.

  
  http://www.luthulimuseum.org.za/

• First African rulers

  A list of African rulers in the years of independence in the Zárate's Political Collections (ZPC).

  
  http://www.terra.es/

• UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archive

  A repository on the liberation movement. Search the archive for art, artefacts, posters and banners, audiovisual material, historical papers, photographic archive and more.

  
  http://repository.uwc.ac.za/

• Africa Focus

  Access to slides, photographs, and sounds from 45 countries, in digital form, as well as full-text documents of historical context provided by University of Wisconsin.

  
  http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/

• Mozambique history net

  The purpose of the Mozambique History Net (MHN) website is to make available selected newspaper clippings and some other resources dealing with contemporary Mozambican history and presented in a thematically organised form.

  
  http://www.mozambiquehistory.net/

• Red Terror Martyrs' Memorial Monument

  Our mission is to memorialize the martyrs' of the "Red Terror" while preserving artifacts, photographs and rare documents of this horrible period in Ethiopian history for visitors, scholars and students alike to gain valuable knowledge and understanding.

  
  http://rtmmm.org/

• DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa

  The aim of DISA is to make Southern African historical material of high socio – political interest accessible to scholars and researchers.

  
  http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/

• Indiana University Liberian Collections

  The collections - partly available online - include historical and ethnographic documents, newspapers, government publications, books, journals, dissertations, maps, slides, negatives, photographs, microfilms, audio & video tapes, artifacts and memorabilia.

  
  http://www.onliberia.org/

• William V.S. Tubman Papers, 1904-1992

  The papers of William V. S. Tubman (1895-1971), long serving president of Liberia (1944–1971). Includes materials - primarily in English - from the years of Tubman’s presidency, his personal correspondence and memorabilia from Tubman’s family. Online access through the Liberian Collections at Indiana University.

  
  http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/