General African Studies Links

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources - maintained by Karen Fung, Hoover Institute, Stanford University
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

Highly Recommended -- African Studies in the United States: A Perspective, (1996) Jane I. Guyer, with the help of Akbar M. Virmani and Amanda Kemp. African Studies Association Press A valuable study on the history and current state of African Studies in the US
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/ASA/guyer_book.html

African Studies: Organizations and Programs around the world
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/asp.html

African Studies Association
http://www.africanstudies.org/

African Universities on-line
http://www.africaonline.com/AfricaOnline/education/universities.html
http://infoseek.go.com/WebDir/Education/Colleges_and_universities/By_region/Colleges_and_universities_in_Africa?sv=N7

CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa - Dakar)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/codesria.html

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Page with extensive links
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

Joint  Berkeley-Stanford Centerfor Africa Studies
Berkeley ~ http://africa.berkeley.edu/
Stanford ~ http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/

US Department of Education Title VI programs (major source of funding for African Studies and other area studies programs)
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/HEP/iegps/
 

References and Resources for Teaching Africa Studies (K-12 and Tertiary Education)

Links to relevant syllabi on line.
http://africa.berkeley.edu/outreach/FacultyInst/websyllabi.html

African and African American Collections at the UC Berkeley Library.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Africana/

Nancy J. Schmidt, "Africana Resources for Undergraduates: A Bibliographic Essay," In, Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O'Meara (eds.), Africa. Third edition., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 413-434.
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Elibsalc/african/schmidt.html#Contents

H-Africa: Part of H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. African Studies constitutes the largest sector on H-Net.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/gateways/africa/

List of Title VI African Studies Outreach Centers
http://wsi.cso.uiuc.edu/CAS/outreachlist.html

An African Politics Classroom (Dean McHenry, Claremont Colleges)
http://spe.cgu.edu/ppp/africa/index.html

African South of the Sahara education page
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/ed.html

University of Pennsylvania’s K-12 Guide
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html

UC Berkeley Interactive University Project
http://iu.berkeley.edu:7017/

Africa Access (Guide to children’s literature on Africa)
http://filemaker.mcps.k12.md.us/aad/
 

African News and Policy Links

Breaking News
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/news.html

BBC World Service ~ Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/

AfricaNews Online
http://www.africanews.org/

List of links to various sites on politics and government
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/poli1.html

Africa Policy Information Center (Washington, DC)
http://www.africapolicy.org/index.shtml

African Governments on the Web
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/africa.html
 

Using the Internet in the Classroom

UC Berkeley’s CyberCentral is designed to assist faculty in a range of Educational Development and Technology (EDT) functions at UC Berkeley.
http://cybercentral.berkeley.edu/

UC Berkeley’s Instructional Technology Program (ITP) maintains lists of World Wide Web links that may be of interest to instructors.
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu:80/WebResources.html

Faculty Institute Main Page

UC Berkeley Center for African Studies
Stanford Center for African Studies home page

last updated by mes
7/18/00