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Africa:
One Continent. Many Worlds
Extensive site for the traveling art exhibit
from the Field Museum, Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles County, and others. Includes video, photographs
on the history and art of the Royal Palace of the Bamum
(Cameroun), conflict resolution among the BaKongo
(Congo-Brazzaville and Kinshasa, Angola), Benin history through
elephant tusks and Benin bronzes, metal working, use of gold
weights, commerce across the Sahara, the market in Kano
(Nigeria), men's hats, combs/jewelry, rock art, a Liberian folk
tale, the role of masks, drums, kora music from Senegal, the
elephant as a royal animal, and more. Has a map
of African languages, an African facts flashcard game,
classroom ideas for teachers. http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/africa/main.htm
or http://www.nhm.org/africa
African
Lives -_Washington Post
Stories of everyday life in Africa, by Stephen
Buckley, for the Washington Post newspaper.Topics include
urban young people in Kenya, an Ethiopian midwife, Senegalese
fishermen, wife inheritance and AIDS in Kenya, urban family
obligations in Cote d'Ivoire, child brides in Cote d'Ivoire,
effects of civil war on the Dinka in the Sudan, funeral
practices in Ghana. Includes photos.[KF]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/africanlives/front.htm/
African
Marketplace - Los Angeles
Annual African festival in Los Angeles,
California. African clothing, crafts, music, film festival,
children's activities. http://www.africanmarketplace.org/
African
Odyssey InterActive - Kennnedy Center for the Performing
Arts
Site for a festival in New York of music,
dance, and theater from Africa and the African Diaspora. Has interviews with artists, a directory of web sites about
Dance, Music, Literary Arts/Storytelling, Theater/Performance,
K-12 teaching resources. [KF]
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/artsedge.html
African
Philosophy - Bruce B. Janz
Site on "philosophy which focuses on
Africa, philosophy done in Africa, and philosophy that is part
of the traditional conversation among African
philosophers." Includes links to full text documents,
reading lists, course syllabi, African
philosophers, conferences, journals, topics within African
philosophy, etc. Prof.
Janz is with the Philosophy Dept., Augustana University
College, Alberta, CANADA. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/
African
Writing System - Ayele Bekerie
Professor Bekerie provides information on
Ethiopic, Meroitic, ancient Egyptian, and other writing systems.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
Afri-Phil - Philosophy of
African Society
"A forum for the exchange of views,
experiences, techniques, and professional information pertaining
to the teaching and study of the philosophical thought of
African and African-diaspora cultures." The listowners are:
Emmanuel Eze, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania;
Bruce B. Janz, Augustana University College, Alberta, Canada;
Frank Wilson, Bucknell University. To subscribe, send email to: listserv@bucknell.edu
In the message area put: SUB AFRI-PHIL Yourfirstname
Yourlastname
AfroCaribOttawa
" a one-stop information source about
African Caribbeans in the Ottawa region in Canada." Find
African or Caribbean eateries or groceries, hair salons, other
black-owned businesses, events. Maintained by Vusi Moloi.
http://www.afrocaribottawa.com
AfroCubanWeb
Has music tour schedules, workshops in dance
and percussion, organizations, a discussion group, articles,
race & identity in Cuba, films, photos, etc. Based in
Arlington, MA. http://afrocubaweb.com
Afropop
Worldwide
Radio program by Georges Collinet of music
from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Has the program
schedules, discographies, how to access African radio stations
with links to African radio web sites, biographies of African
recording artists, a glossary of African musical terms, an
annotated bibliography of books and magazines, tour information,
and African recipes! http://www.afropop.org/
Anthropology
and Medicine
Journal published by Carfax Publishing Ltd.
(UK) with many Africa-related articles. Has the tables of
contents. http://www.journals.tandf.co.uk/carfax/13648470.html
Art
and Life in Africa - University of Iowa
This site introduces a related CD-ROM project
and serves as an online searchable catalog of the Univ. of
Iowa's Stanley Collection of African Art. The Key
Moments in Life section describes events such as infancy,
childhood, initiation, marriage, religion, leadership,
elderhood, death and illustrates them with art in a mini-slide
show illustrating front and side views of each piece. The Countries
Database provides basic facts. A Types
of Art database describes the art of each ethnic group and
basic facts about the group. Peoples include the Ashanti,
Bamana, Baule, Bwa, Dogon, Fang, Hemba, Ibibio, Kongo, Kota,
Kuba, Lobi, Luba, Lwalwa, Makonde, Mbole, Mossi, Pende, Suku,
Tabwa, Woyo, Yaka, Yoruba. There is a Peoples
Database. One can search the university's Stanley
Collection of African Art which contains over 500 objects.
The Project is directed by Professor of Art, Christopher Roy.
[KF] http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart
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ArtMatters.Info
"the website of ComMattersKenya Limited,
a Nairobi-based arts, culture, communications and media
firm......covers fine art, books, music
& dance, film, video & television, fashion & beauty,
puppetry, storytelling & theatre, entertainment,
leisure and lifestyle in Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania,..." Web magazine founded by Ogova
Ondego. Articles on copyright
in Kenya, homosexuality, festivals, etc. [KF]
http://www.artmatters.info/
Association
of Social Anthropologists of the UK & the Commonwealth
Contains "Ethical Guidelines for Good
Research Practice." Organises an annual conference,
lists their publications, links to related organizations.
http://www.theasa.org/
CafeAfricana
CafeAfricana is a center for Arts, Culture,
Poetry, Politics, Films, News and Community. Special interviews
such as with the President of the Association of Moremi Women in
Southern California. The site, based in California, is owned by
Funmi Tofowomo Okelola. http://www.cafeafricana.com
Dar
es Salaam in Delft Blue
Barend Schweigman, a Dutch photographer,
taught photography at a local institution in Dar es Salaam. He
presents an online exhibit of "ordinary people with
their favourite objects in the streets of Dar es
Salaam." Click on each individual to see the objects. In
English, Swahili and Dutch. http://www.africaserver.nl/fahari/
A Day
in the Life of Africa
A photojournalism project, directed by
David Cohen and Lee Liberman, to produce a book and traveling
exhibition. Feb. 28, 2002, a hundred professional
photojournalists (Pulitzer Prize, World Photo prize winners,
etc.) from 25 countries documented a day in the life of Africa.
All photographers used five-megapixel Olympus E-20 and Olympus
C4040 cameras. The book is to be published November 2002. All
publishing profits from the project will fund AIDS education
programs in Africa." http://www.ditlafrica.com/
Documentary
Educational Resources
A non-profit which produces ethnography
films/videos, based in Massachusetts. Claims to have the world's
largest collection of films/videos on the !Kung San (Bushmen) of
Namibia. John Marshall, President of DER, created the films The
Hunters and N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman.
http://der.org/docued
Fayemi, A.
Olusegun - Voices from Within: Photographs of African Children
About the book of photographs taken in 12
African countries over a 17 year period. Includes descriptions
of children's lives. Fayemi "studied photography
privately, with Alex Harsely and Richard Sternschuss of New York
and at the New School for Social Research, International Center
for Photography and Zone VI studios."
http://www.fayemi.com/
Hats
Off! A Salute to African Headwear
Exhibit and cultural background from the Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art.
http://www.si.edu/nmafa/exhibits/hatssite/top.htm
Internet
African History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall
Has full-text sources for African history
arranged by topics. Includes under the topic, Homosexuality,
links to mainly contemporary articles. Maintained by Paul
Halsall, Fordham University.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html#Modern
Africa
Journal
of Language and Popular Culture in Africa (Amsterdam)
Full text articles. Published by Language
and Popular Culture in Africa, an internet project set up by
Johannes Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in the
Netherlands. http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/jlpca/index.html
Life
in Africa Foundation
An NGO to promote "an increased
international understanding of Africans, and life in
Africa," supports microfinance
institutions in Africa, "which make credit and savings
services available to the poor, who otherwise have no access to
money from banks." Offers free email subscriptions to their
publications.
Has photos and accounts of living in Uganda,
Gabon, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Tanzania by Christina
Jordan-Haitsma, an American from California, who moved to Uganda
in October 1998 with her Dutch husband, Epko, and their two
small children,. http://www.lifeinafrica.com/
Michigan
State University Libraries. Comic Art Collection
Inventory of a fine collection of comics from
all over the world including African
comics. http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/index.htm
Motherland
Nigeria - Olubunmi O
Extensive information on Nigeria - foods
recipes, dress, national anthem, languages, school life,
music (with audio files), history, Nigerian
humor, links to other sites. Has a Kid
Zone with stories, proverbs, games, pictures, artwork,
tourist attractions in Nigeria. By Olubunmi "Boomie",
a Nigerian programmer analyst working in Minneapolis, MN. She
grew up in Nigeria and the Midwest U.S.
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com
Nigerian
Fabrics and Fashions
One can purchase styles for men and women
including wedding outfits.Based in Brooklyn, New York; owned by
Jonathan Adewumi and Gboyega Adewumi. http://melanet.com/nff/
Northern
Mandaras
Site for ethnographers, on the northern
Mandara mountains of North Cameroon and North East Nigeria. Has
a bibliography on the ethnography of the Northern Mandaras which
includes journal articles and Ph.D. theses, a detailed list
(with literature sources) and map of the ethnic units and
sub-units, a bibliography,
research issues, and photographs. Site based in London. [KF]
http://www.mandaras.info
Observatory
of Cultural Policies in Africa, OCPA
NGO, created, in 2002, as a partnership of the
African Union, UNESCO, and Ford Foundation. Monitors
cultural trends and national cultural policies and
enhances their integration in development. Has the full text of
their newsletter, OCPA
News, meeting
reports, documents
(such as - Language Policies in Africa [1997] (121
p. in PDF), South Africa's White Paper on Arts,
Culture and Heritage 1996 (MS Word doc), the African
Renaissance, South Africa and the World, by Thabo Mbeki). National
cultural policies, and working papers, etc. Full text issues
of their cultural newsletter, OCPA News. Based
in Maputo, Mozambique. [KF] http://www.ocpanet.org/
The
Paideia Project On-line
Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of
Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998. Includes full text
papers on Philosophy
in Africa (Polygyny in Africa: A Male's Post-Original
Sin or Rejection of the Primeval Monogyny and Affirmation of
Sexual Inequality, by Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, Das Projekt einer
globalen Ethik und die afrikanische Philosophie, by Anke
Graness, The Meditations of Zara Yaquob, by Teodoros
Kiros, Ubuntu: An African Assessment of the Religious
Other, by Dirk J. Louw, and Who Counts as a Sage? Problems in
the Further Implementation of Sage Philosophy [H. Odera Oruka],
by Gail Presbey.) http://www.bu.edu/wcp/
The
Sukuma Museum (Mwanza, Tanzania)
Describes the revival of Sukuma traditional
arts and culture taking place among traditional doctors, chiefs,
artists, and dancers. Covers history, politics, and religion in
Usukuma, Sukuma dancing, dance societies and ties to Denmark,
healing practices, chiefs and royal history, a history and tour
of the Sukuma Museum. Has many photographs including historical
photos. By Mark and Aimee Bessire. M. Bessire was a Fulbright
Fellow and Consusltant to the Museum. http://photo.net/sukuma/
Tamarin
- Art and Africa On Line
Site, in French and English,
of Tamarin Art Inc. Long Beach, New York. Interesting examples
of popular culture in Africa. http://www.tamarin.com Exhibits include:
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Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria.
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Kings of Africa - Photographs of reigning African traditional rulers by
Daniel Lainé, with biographies for each ruler. From the book by
Lainé, Rois d'Afrique (Paris: Arthaud, 1991, 156 p.).
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Fode Camara - Senegalese contemporary painter
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Gallery - a selection of African art and ethnographic objects
Tribalphoto.com
"...supports tribal survival, the defense
of human rights and cultural autonomy of indigenous people"
Has "photographers...who want to offer their work in
support of tribal survival. Reproduction of our images is
available - at a minimal charge - to all those whose intent is
to present positive support for cultural survival." Photos
are from Ethiopia, Namibia, Niger, the Sahel. Photographers
include John Watson. Has a list of "culturally sensitive
tours." http://www.tribalphoto.com/
Virtual
Institute of Mambila Studies
The Institute "seeks to collate and
connect ...researchers with an interest in the Mambila people of
the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland and their neighbours..."
"...research is primarily of an anthropological and
linguistic nature..." The site has a Mambila
Riddle Machine, an interactive introduction to Mambila
riddles using QuickTime for the video portion. Has reports on
David Zeitlyn's research on kinship and language and his
annotated version of C. K. Meek's early ethnological work in the
region, and Bruce Connell's comparative study of Mambila
dialects. There is a bibliography
of anthropological, linguistic, and related research on Mambila.
The site has a short story by Jonathan W. Mangbon, (from
Mambila L.G.A.) "Drink and the Innocent Policeman"
and the History and
Customs of Ntem by P. M. Kaberry and E. M. Chilver. The site
was established by Zeitlyn (Department of Sociology and Social
Anthropology, The University of Kent,) and Connell (Institute of
Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.) http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/
West
African Wisdom: Adinkra Symbols & Meanings
High quality adinkra symbols with their
meanings. Larger versions of the symbols can be supplied on
request. Includes adinkra Valentine cards, an annotated list of
books (plus books for children) and adinkra related sites.
Created by Jean MacDonald of Well-Tempered Web Design in
Portland, Oregon, a volunteer to Ghana with Geekcorps. http://www.welltempered.net/adinkra
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