Link collection - A Guide to Africa on the Internet

Arts and Culture > Literature

• Lire les femmes ecrivains et les littératures africaines - Reading women writers and African literatures

  An overview of African women writers writing in French, the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

  
  http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/

• Literature and culture of Francophone Africa & the Diaspora

  A guide to resources on the web for research on the literature and culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora provided by Bromns University Library, USA.

  
  http://dl.lib.brown.edu/

• African literature and writers on the internet

  African literature and writers on the internet, provided by African Collection, Stanford Libraries.

  
  http://www-sul.stanford.edu/

• 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/

• Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität Wien

  African Studies within the humanities and social sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria. (In German)

  
  http://www.univie.ac.at/

• African Literature on the Internet

  African literature and writers on the internet, from African Studies Internet Resources, Columbia University African Collection, Stanford Libraries.

  
  http://library.columbia.edu/

• Ethiopiques: revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie. (Online) - Literature

  An important review on African Literature Studies. It was created by Léopold Sédar Senghor. Archives of back issues are available online in full text, since 2002. 

  
  http://www.refer.sn/

• Contemporary Writers in the UK and the Commonwealth

  A searchable database (by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, book title, date of publication and prize name and date) that contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs. Compiled by the British Council.

  
  http://www.contemporarywriters.com/

• African Writing Online

  Online version of a print journal about contemporary African writing published in Britain.

  http://www.african-writing.com

  

• Africa has the Floor

  Africa and African literature at the Göteborg Book Fair 2010, organized by the project Afrika 2010, the Nordic Africa Institute and the Book Fair. This is your opportunity to experience broadcasts from the program afterwards. NB The web site is in Swedish but the presentations are mainly in English.
  
  http://afrikaharordet-2010.cmm.creo.se/

• Africa has the floor - a photo exhibition

  Photographs of 20 of the African writers who visited the Göteborg Book Fair 2010 and that represent the new generation of African writers. Photograps by the Swedish-Mozambican photographer Sérgio Santimano and the writers’ presentations by Anita Theorell

  
  http://afrikaharordet-eng.cmm.creo.se/

• Eritrean Print and Oral Culture

  An archive of Eritrean oral and printed literature and culture. A resource for those who are interested in Eritrean culture, and how it is being shaped by the diasporic experience.

  
  http://www.crcstudio.org/

• AfrikaRoman Literaturportal

  Literature portal with information about fiction from and about Africa (In German)  

  
  http://www.afrikaroman.de/

• Literary Map of Africa, Ohio State University Libraries

  The Literary Map of Africa is a bio-bibliographical database, designed to be a comprehensive research and information tool on African literature.

  
  http://library.osu.edu/

• LITAF - Littérature africaine francophone

  A bibliographical database on francophone literature from Africa south of Sahara. A project affiliated with Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire de Bordeaux, France.

  http://www.litaf.cean.org/index.html

  

• National Libraries of Africa

  A database of national libraries in Africa, with links and contact information and some basic facts on the collections. Maintained by the National Library of South Africa.

  
  http://nlsahopta.nlsa.ac.za/