- Museum for African Art
Features exhibitions, travel tours, and educational programs devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary African art.
www.africanart.org
- African Timelines
BCE to present
www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
- African Imagery
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Brings together the work of the best photographers who focus on Africa, organized by theme and region.
www.africanimagery.com
- Historical Maps of Africa
Includes maps of pre-colonial Africa as well as individual colonies and expedition maps.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_africa.html
- Exploring Africa
An exhibit of maps and travel narratives from Leo Africanus to Chinua Achebe.
www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa.html
- Nubia: Its Glory and Its People
Selection of objects recovered over twenty years ago by the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition in the effort to rescue archaeology from the rising water behind the Aswan Dam.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/NUBX/NUBX_brochure.html
- swikiri
Platform for collaboration, discussion, inspiration, and exposure of visual design, art, music, writing, and all forms of creative innovation from Africa.
www.swikiri.com
- Ancient African Empires
Categorized by art, biography, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.
www.historylink101.com/africa.htm
- Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Companion site to the PBS series that tells the true stories of lands filled with great civilizations long before any Europeans set foot there.
www.pbs.org/wonders
- nubianet
Archeological discoveries, exhibits, virtual tours, and educational resources about Nubia, an ethnic group in Africa.
www.nubianet.org
- AfricanLit.com
Offers a selection of essays analyzing well-known works of African literature.
www.africanlit.com
- Kanem Bornu and the Hausa Kingdoms
Historical overview.
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/kanemhausa.html
- Mora Gallery
Showcase of black African and Senegalese modern art, including paintings by Mor Faye and Bara Diokhane.
www.baradiokhane.com
- Conflicting Missions: Secret Cuban Documents on History of African Involvement
American and Cuban documents detailing events in Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, and Zaire in the 1960s and 1970s. Includes interview by Piero Gleijeses of Robert Hultsander, last CIA station chief in Luanda.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB67
- African Writers Index
Directory of African writers, literary movements, news, and books.
www.geocities.com/africanwriters
- The Art of African Exploration
Collection of 19th-century European paintings, drawings, maps, and more that reveal Africa as seen by Western eyes. From the Smithsonian.
www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/artofafricanexploration
- Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan
Historical overview of Mali, Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland before the modern era.
www.xula.edu/~jrotondo/Kingdoms
- africancolours.com
Resource for contemporary African art and southern African artists.
www.africancolours.com
- Ancient Harar and History
Includes religion, history, language and more from the culture.
www.harar.com
- Ashanti Gold Weights
History and pictures of the use of gold in the Asante Kingdom. From the Australian National University.
rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/african/ashanti
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