Published by the African Diaspora Archeology Network. Quarterly on African diasporas worldwide, full text issues are online. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
Full text of the Newsletter is online. The Centre "focuses on the history of the African diaspora and the movement
of Africans to various parts of the world, particularly the Americas and
the Islamic lands of North Africa and the Middle East." Has a publication
series, Studies in the History of the African Diaspora, conference
programs and some papers, the full text of "Ethnicity
and the Slave Trade: 'Lucumi' and 'Nago' as Ethnonyms in West Africa"
by Robin Law (from History in Africa, No. 24, 1997).
Research areas include: Nigerian Hinterland Project, Biographical Database
of Enslaved Africans, Historical Atlas of Slavery, Ports of the Nigerian
Hinterland, The Muslim Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Route, Ethnic Identities
in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, Linkages between the Diaspora and Africa,
Igbo Oral History Project on Slavery. The Director is Paul E. Lovejoy. Based
in Toronto, Canada. [KF] http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/index.htm
Newsletter of the African Mathematical Union's Comission on the History
of Mathematics in Africa. The newsletter includes bibliographies, book reviews,
web sites, meetings, research reports, addresses of scholars. Part of Mathematicians
of the African Diaspora. Both sites are maintained by Professor Scott
W. Williams, Mathematics Dept., State Univ. of New York at Buffalo. [KF]
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amuchma_online.html
Published by the University of Toronto Press. Has the table of contents. Journal on "the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas – Armenian, Greek, and Jewish – and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as ‘diasporas.’ Libraries pay $65 p.a. http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=diaspora/diaspora.html
Articles such as
Proximate Practices? Gender, Diaspora, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. By: Baldwin, Kate. (Fall2003, Vol. 12 Issue 2)
Theorizing Africa in Black Diaspora Studies: Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River. By: Goyal, Yogita. (Spring2003, Vol. 12 Issue 1)
Nsibidi (Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain)
In Spanish. Revista de Estudios de Sociedad Historia, Economía y Cultura africanos de la Muunganiko wa Masomo ya Kiafrika na Uafrika, Asociación de Estudios Africanos y Panafricanismo. Full text articles. Based in Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain. http://www.nsibidi.org/
Journal. List of articles provided. "Africans and Blacks have always had their own philosophical perspectives on the world. But only in the last two decades have these perspectives coalesced into a full-fledged movement: Africana Philosophy." Articles explore "the pluralistic experiences of Africa and the Black Diaspora from both universal and comparative points of view." Edited by Dr. Emmanuel Eze, DePaul University. Formerly called, African Philosophy. Libraries pay $150 p.a. http://condor.depaul.edu/~africana/index.html
In Portuguese and English. Published by Universidade Federal da Bahia, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Salvador, Brazil. "publishes articles on issues related to African and Asian populations and their descendants in Brazil and elsewhere..." Table of contents is online. http://www.afroasia.ufba.br/
Published by the York University. Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora. "publishes manuscripts in Arabic, French, Portuguese, English, Spanish and other languages relevant to the history of the African diaspora." Selected documents are online. http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/shadd/shadd.htm
Includes the full text of -
Slavery Question in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1900-1906, by Paul Lovejoy and Jan Hogendorn
Texts of Ocha Ifa and Santeria, Regla, Cuba, 61 volumes; introduction by Henry Lovejoy (3 pages) http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/shadd/cuba/page1.htm
Robin Law (ed.), Documents on the History of the Oyo Empire; texts relevant to the history of Oyo, drawing on published documents and translations of non-English texts (previously published, Department of History, University of Ibadan). http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/shadd/law/index.asp
An African-American foreign policy institution, "founded in 1981
to provide a forum for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information
about Africa and the Caribbean and about the United States' policies affecting
these regions." Has a table comparing the size of African countries to the United States. Full text of its journal, Globalization Monitor and the Transafrica Forum Newsletter. Full text reports such as Sweatshops in Lesotho (2002, 32 p. in PDF), a biography of Patrice Lumumba (2001, 3 p. in PDF), Clothing as a Cultural Express: African Fashion (2000, 3 p. in PDF), Female Genital Mutilation in Africa (2000, 4 p. in PDF), and other reports. Its President, Bill Fletcher, Jr., succeeded Randall Robinson. [KF] http://www.transafricaforum.org
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