- Adam Matthew Publications
- Microfilm publisher. Sells 19th and 20th century journals and archival collections in microform. Full text guides to collections are online. Search OCLC's World Catalog and/or RLIN to locate libraries with holdings of these microforms. http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/
Examples -
- Africa Through Western Eyes. Part 1-2: Original Manuscripts from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library
- Church Missionary Society Archive - See Section IV: Africa Missions. The Introduction contains a history of the CMS by Rosemary Keen.
Guides to the various sections are online.
Section IV: Africa Missions
Part 1: West Africa (Sierra Leone), 1803-1880. 27 reels
Part 2: West Africa (Sierra Leone), 1820-1880. 18 reels
Part 3: Nigeria - Yoruba, 1844-1880. 17 reels
Part 4: Nigeria - Yoruba, 1844-1880. 17 reels
Part 5: West Africa (Sierra Leone), 1820-1880. 17 reels
Part 6: Nigeria - Niger, 1857-1882. 12 reels
Part 7: Sudan, 1905-1949. 21 reels
Part 8: Nigeria - Yoruba, 1880-1934. 23 reels
Part 9: Nigeria - Yoruba, 1880-1934. 23 reels
Part 10: Nigeria - Niger, 1881-1934. 36 reels
Part 11: Nigeria - Niger, 1880-1934, and Nigeria - Northern Nigeria, 1900-1934. 20 reels
Part 12: West Africa (Sierra Leone), 1881-1934. 26 reels
Part 13: West Africa (Sierra Leone), 1935-1949, and Nigeria Missions, 1935-1949. 32 reels
Part 14: Egypt, 1889-1934. 17 reels
Part 15: Egypt, 1889-1949. 14 reels
Part 16: South Africa, 1836-1843, Kenya, 1841-1888, and Nyanza, 1876-1882. 16 reels
Part 17: Kenya, 1880-1934. 29 reels
Part 18: Kenya, 1880-1934. 29 reels
Part 19: Tanganyika, 1900-1934, Nyanza, 1880-1886, and Rwanda, 1933-1934. 13 reels
- Colonial Discourses. Series One: Women, Travel & Empire, 1660-1914
Part 1: Early travel accounts by women, and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada
- Aequatoria Archives Research Project
- Based at the Research Center of the International Pragmatics Association, University of Antwerp, and works with the Centre Æquatoria, Mbandaka, Congo (DRC). "Its goal is to make extensively annotated editions as well as systematic interpretive analyses of documents from the archives of the Centre Æquatoria - in particular those documents that are relevant to the historiographic study of linguistics and ethnology in colonial times." The Archives have, on microfiche, the proceedings of the Conférence Nationale Souveraine. Has an online Catalogue. The Archives holdings, on microfiche, are available in several locations worldwide (CAMP, Univ. of Wisconsin, etc.). The microfiche can also be purchased from the Archives in Antwerp.
Has the full text, in French, of: Témoignagesafricains de l'arrivée des premiers Blancs aux bords des rivières de l'Equateur(RD Congo) -- African testimonies of the arrivals of the first Whites on the river banks in the Congolese Equateur region (± 253pp) http://www.aequatoria.be/archives_project/
- African Indigenous
Science and Knowledge Systems
- Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State
University, provides citations to books and links to web sites relating
to the, "Background History of Africa, African Food Processing Techniques,
African Textile Techniques, African Metallurgy, Colonialism and Africa's
Technology. http://www.africahistory.net
- African Online Digital Library
- Project of Michigan State University, IFAN, and WARC. http://www.aodl.org/
Includes -
Sampling from L'Institut Fondemental
d'Afrique Noire, IFAN (historical photographs),
Collection Boubacar Barry (historical writings on the Futa Jalon from
Professor of History Barry,
Phil Curtin Collection (photographs, audio interview on his work on economic
change in precolonial Senegambia in the era of the slave trade, Bundu),
Photographs from “Passport
to Paradise’: Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond (the "urban
visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement centered upon
the life and teachings of a local saint named Sheikh Amadou Bamba"),
Mosques of Bondoukou (photographs) and
Futa Toro, Senegal and Mauritania ("The Fulbe people have played
a prominent role in West African history, and a complete
background on the Fuuta Tooro Oral History Project is available." Plus
interviews in Pulaar). [KF]
- African
Timelines
- Chronology with descriptions for Ancient Africa, African Empires, African
Slave Trade & European Imperialism, Anti-Colonialism, Post-Independence
Africa, plus Sources for Further Study. Site by Cora Agatucci, Associate
Professor of English, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon. http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
- Aggrey,
Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir, 18 October 1875 - 30 July
1927 "Let's Go! Eagles!!"
- Original site has closed. Biographical account with photographs, in three parts, by Dr. Donal Brody
of Great Epic Books (Seattle). Part of the original content is on Ghanaweb.com and in 11 pages in PDF on a site whose account has expired. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/people/pop-up.php?ID=148
- American
Colonization Society, Library of Congress Exhibit
- The U.S. Library of Congress holds the records of the American Colonization
Society which established Liberia. The exhibit descriptions provide historical
background on this period. The Colonization section is part of the African-American
Mosaic exhibit.
Colonization: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
- American
Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States
- Four page account of efforts to establish a colony in Sierra Leone or
Liberia for free African-Americans. Part of the Afro-American
Almanac. http://www.toptags.com/aama/events/acs.htm
See also: Constitution
of the American Society for Colonizing....
and the Liberia Constitution (1839).
- Amicale Santé Navale et
Outre-Mer, ASNOM - l'oeuvre humanitaire du corps de sante colonial
francais, 1890-1968
- In French. History of diseases, health in Africa and
Asia, French colonial history. Includes photographs. "...(ASNOM)
est une association sans but lucratif qui regroupe d'anciens élèves
des écoles d'application de la marine (Toulon), de l'armée
de l'air (Paris) et des troupes coloniales (Marseille). L’école
de Marseille (dite du Pharo) accueille des élèves de l’École
de santé navale de Bordeaux et, pendant un temps, de l’École
de santé militaire de Lyon. Ces élèves constituent
l’essentiel du Corps de santé colonial, créé en
1890 et dissous en 1968." Based in Paris. [KF] http://www.asnom.org/
- Ancient Dutch
Forts and Castles in Ghana - Michel R. Doortmont and Michel
van den Nieuwenhof
- "Some notes on Fort Patience (Apam) and Ussher Fort (Accra). A special
contribution to the official home page of the Netherlands Embassy in Accra
by Michel R. Doortmont and Michel van den Nieuwenhof." Part of the
web site of the Netherlands Embassy in
Accra, Ghana. http://www.ambaccra.nl/pages/c_forts.html
- Association Philatélique
des Collectionneurs de Timbres Poste des Anciennes Colonies Françaises (Paris)
- In French. Sells publications about stamps from Francophone Africa, has
a discussion forum, links to related sites, etc. http://www.ifrance.com/COLFRA/
- Banknotes.com
- Has a Currency Museum with
photographs of banknotes
from Africa. For South Africa has currency as old as 1896, from 1909
for Angola, British West Africa from 1918, from the Belgian Congo 1914,
from French West Africa 1929, from Germa East Africa 1905, from the BCEAO "Banknotes
of West African States" 1959, Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1956 and more.
Site from Asheville, North Carolina. [KF] http://www.banknotes.com/ See
also Wise's World
Paper Money Collection
- Barnes, Andrew - Aryanizing Projects, African Collaborators and Colonial Transcripts
- Full text article. 15 p. in PDF. On British colonial policy re northern Nigeria, Islam, the Fulani, Christian missionaries. Footnotes. In Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1997. Published by Duke University Press. [KF] http://www.cssaame.ilstu.edu/issues/V17-2/BARNES.pdf
- Barrera, Giulia - "Dangerous Liaisons: Colonial Concubinage
in Eritrea, 1890-1941"
- Full text in
Adobe PDF. PAS
Working Paper No. 1 (1996) from Northwestern University's Program
of African Studies. http://nuinfo.nwu.edu/african-studies/Publications.htm
- Barry,
Boubacar - Collection Boubacar Barry
- In French. (Historical
writings on the Futa Jalon from the collection of Professor Boubacar Barry.
Digitized by the West African Research Center, Dakar Senegal). From the African
Online Digital Library, a project
of Michigan State University, IFAN, and WARC. http://www.aodl.org/barry.php
Contents include:
- Histoire de la région de Boké. Monographie
du Rio Numez.
Par l'Administrateur
J. FIGAROL. D'avril 1911 à fin 1912. 117 pages, in MS Word. "Located in
the mountains of today's Guinea Conakry,.....,
the Futa became an Islamic state (using the expression Almamate, from
"imam") over the course of the 18th century as Fulbe (Fulani) lineages
mobilized their supporters against a variety of Mandinka chiefdoms
who had dominated the area."
Rapport sur l'Expédition de la Haute Gambie. Author unknown. Publication
date unknown. 44 pages, in MS Word.
- Bergman,
Albert - "On board the "Pensacola". The eclipse
expedition to the west coast of Africa" (New
York : s.n., 1890)
- Short excerpt from an 1890 book on a U.S. expedition to observe the solar
eclipse. "Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, the colonial powers
of Europe and the United States sent expeditions all over the globe to
observe solar
eclipses. From San Francisco's Exploratorium,"a museum of science,
art, and human perception founded in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer." http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/1890.html
- Binghamton University. Libraries
- Holds the William J. Haggerty Collection of French Colonial History. The Haggerty Collection includes publications from the former library of the Union Coloniale française (later Comite Central Francais pour l'Outre-Mer). "20,000 items documenting social, economic and political history, primarily in the French colonies in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most of the collection consists of printed materials published between the late nineteenth century and the mid-1950s." Binghamton was formerly the State University of New York at Binghamton. http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/special/haggerty.html
- British
Broadcasting Company. The Story of Africa
- "the history of the continent from an African perspective." "from
the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid" by
major African historians (Jacob Ajayi, George Abungu, Director-General
of the National Museums of Kenya and others). Includes audio of each segment
of the BBC program. (Requires sound card, speaker or headphone). Each segment
has a timeline, bibliography, useful links. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
- The British Empire
- The compiler writes "This site is not a rigourous academic site!" An
attractive site with graphics and full text articles on events in Ethiopia,
South Africa, a small section on Africa, biographies
including Cecil
Rhodes, a "Library" with abstracts of books such as "Plain
Tales from the Dark Continent," timelines,
uniforms, cigarette cards, cartoons, illustrations from Punch magazine, railroads,
links to African
history sites, company histories, and other resources. Maintained by Stephen
Luscombe who teaches English in Kuwait. http://www.edunltd.com/empire/empire.htm
- British Empire and Commonwealth
Museum (Bristol, U.K.)
- The Museum collections include archives, artifacts, photographs, costumes.
The Archives house interviews, films, photographs, audio recordings including
on the Mau Mau in Kenya. Its country section has snapshots of British colonial
history. The Commonwealth Today section gives each country's area, population,
language, currency, flag and location on a map. Publishes historical studies.
http://www.empiremuseum.co.uk/
- British History Online
- From the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Database of primary and secondary sources. List of the British Secretaries of State 1794-1870. If you register (free), you can save a personal bookshelf of links to useful resources and use a split screen feature to compare two documents simultaneously.
Based in London. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Full text of the House of Commons Journal. Examples -
Report from Committee on Sierra Leone, No. 661.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 85: 13 July 1830', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 85: 1830, pp. 640-45. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16284&strquery=slavery%20africa.
Petitions for abolition of Slavery.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 85: 13 July 1830', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 85: 1830, pp. 640-45. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16284&strquery=slavery%20africa.
- British
Museum - Africa
- The Museum holds African sculpture, textiles, graphic arts, objects from
Ancient Egypt, money. Use the COMPASS
database to locate African objects in these categories and others.
The database comprises selections from the Museum's collections. [KF]
- British Pathe Film Archive
- A rich video news archive covering historical events, sport, social
history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. Obtain free low
resolution video clips after the free registration. High resolution copies
for PowerPoint Presentations and Web Publishing require a license fee.*
The purpose of the site is mainly educational use. Commercial users who
wish to order a videotape or DVD must order
through a British Pathe librarian. The original film is 35mm. The
free downloaded files may be e-mailed to others. By spring 2003, JPEG
images will be available. For best search results, one needs to use a
one word search such as Kenya or Nigeria and then look through the entire
results. [KF] http://www.britishpathe.com/flashintro.cfm
Examples of video clips: the Mau Mau in Kenya, the 1956 trip to Nigeria
of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, the 1952 trip to Kenya
of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, visit to South Africa
of the Royal Family, the first local government election in Lagos 1950,
Commonwealth conferences, the Emir of Katsina, visit to the U.K. of Nigerian
emirs, the 1964 OAU meeting in Tanzania, the 1969 population census in
Kenya, Tanganyika Independence 1961 (in color), 1967 African leaders meeting
in Kampala, 1963 Kenya Independence, the 1952 opening of Ibadan University,
Nigerian Independence 1960, Tom Mboya's funeral 1969, the 1966 assassination
of H. F. Verwoerd (President of South Africa), Colonial Secretary Oliver
Lyttleton's tour of Nigeria 1952. [KF]
* Higher quality hard copy on VHS (PAL format only) can be ordered. "There
are three options for purchasing clips; single stories can be bought for £18
each, up to 7 stories costs £75, and 8 or more stories costs £10
each, all inclusive of VAT. Postage and Packing is an additional £2.25
for customers inside the United Kingdom, £10.00 for customers outside
the United Kingdom."
- Cable & Wireless,
A History - Africa, Early Years
- One page history of the British company's telegraph service to Africa,
includes South Africa. http://www.cwhistory.com/history/html/SAFRICA.html
- Cameroon
Ethnography and History - "Mama for Story"
- A festschrift for E. M. Chilver, appearing in three
different publications, has been produced. The introductions to these three
projects are online. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/index.html
-
- CAMP.
Catalog of Nigerian Pamphlets on Microfilm. Compiled by
the African Collection, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut
for the Cooperative Africana Microform Project and the Center for Research
Libraries.
- Full text, 60 pages, in
Adobe pdf. Citations to 1,000 pamphlets on microfilm.
Included are market literature titles from the Simon Ottenberg collection.
Types of pamphlets - Nigeria, Biafra, Southern Nigeria , British Colonial
Office, government publications, market literature, political
party pamphlets, church and religious pamphlets,
magazines and other serials. Authors include Obafemi Awolowo,
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Samuel A.Crowther, the Action Party, N.C.N.C.
Dates range from the late 19th century to pre-World War II and the mid
1960s. Languages - English, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa. There is an index by
author and subject. The microfilmed pamphlets are available from CAMP,
Cooperative African Micoform Project, based at the Center for Research
Libraries, Chicago. The inventory is part of CAMP's Guides
to Collections, Select Pamphlet Collections. [KF] http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/collections/camppamp.htm
- Cartes Postales
d'Afrique de l'ouest, 1895-1930 / West African Postcards
- An exhibit of historical postcards of Mali (Soudan francais)
and West Africa from a cd-rom (960 francs) produced by
l'Association Images & Memoires and UNESCO. Shows Bamako, Tombouctou,
Bandiagara, women, colonial scenes, chiefs (Sidi Moctar, Behanzin, Samory
Toure en captivité, Oba of Benin, notables from Mossi, Sierra Leone, Accra).
Hosted on the Université Laval (Canada) site. http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/gersa/Images.html
- Center for Research Libraries - Documents
on African Political History, 1938-1970: compiled by Ruth Schachter Morgenthau
- An inventory of African political party materials
(1945-1963) and government documents (1938-1970). Full text, in pdf. 18 pages. "The collection, comprising 23 microfilm reels, contains core documentation
and important primary resource material used as a basis for Dr. Morgenthau's
prize-winning book, "Political Parties in French Speaking West
Africa." (1965 winner of the Melville J. Herskovits award)."
Includes trade union publications, R.D.A.
publications, French policy in Africa, pan-african conferences.
Covers Dahomey (Benin), Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal, Soudan (Mali), Belgian
Congo, Cameroun, Ghana, Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland, Togo, Gambia,
Uganda, etc.
"The newspapers and serials contained within the collection have been
cataloged separately and contain a number of unique titles not previously
referenced in OCLC. A listing of these titles may be found by searching
the Center's catalog
with the series title "Documents on African Political History."
The 28 reel collection can be borrowed by CAMP
members and CRL members. Non-members pay $110 for interlibrary loan.
http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/collections/campguide.htm
- Center for Research Libraries - England in Africa
- Special issue of the Center's on-line newsletter, Focus on Global Resources, featuring the Center's holdings on British colonial Africa. Has an 11 page PDF list of the various microfilm collections called - "GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO AFRICAN COUNTRIES PRIOR TO INDEPENDENCE [Annual departmental reports relating to Africa in microform] [Government publications relating to Africa in microform]"
Links to a list of libraries holding Government Gazettes.
List of CRL/CAMP's holdings of British National Archives Original Correspondence from various African entities.
The full text documents listed are only open to CRL members. [Stanford users, please note, Stanford is not a CRL member.] http://www.crl.edu/focus/TOC.asp?id=39
- Centre
Culturel Français (in Benin)
- In French. Has an online exhibit and articles about, "1848-1998,
150 ans d'abolition de l'esclavage." http://www.vn.refer.org/benin_ct/tur/ccf/espadoc/fonds/pres.htm
- Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des
Voyages, CRLV
- In French. "fondé en 1984 est une équipe
d’accueil de l’École doctorale de Littératures
françaises et comparée de l’Université de
Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)." Provides a listing
of monographs and articles on the web regarding travel in Africa. Their
Newsletter, Lettres du Voyageur, has citations to
recent theses (such
as
Les Récits de voyage
en Afrique subsaharienne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, by Paulo
Alves Vaz, DEA de Littérature
et civilisation françaises, Université Paris-Sorbonne, septembre
2004, 95 p., Directeur : François Moureau).
Has audio files of conference presentations. An online citations
database of travel-related documents (from the 16th-17th-18th centuries)
provides travel dates, destination, countries visited, library location for
each manuscript, map or published work cited. http://www.crlv.org/crlv/viati-web.php#Anchor-Afrique-47857
- Centre des archives d'outre-mer - Exposition virtuelle sur Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
- In French. French explorer, founder of Brazzaville, Congo, Governor of the French Congo, born in Italy, 1852-1905. Biography, colonial history of Gabon, Congo River, slavery, photographs, illustrations, original documents. Chronology, bibliography. Includes 3-D Flash animated introduction and audio which requires a sound card and headset or speakers.
From the Centre des archives d’outre-mer (Archives nationales, Aix-en-Provence). [KF] http://www.brazza.culture.fr/
- Centre Edmond Fortier
- In Dutch, English, French. Photographs by Edmond Fortier on historical
postcards,1900 - 1910. Has an exhibition of postcards from Tombouctou
(1906), Benin (1908), Saint-Louis (1900), Djenné (1905). "Includes
photographs of l
'Almami" Samori Touré, the son
of El Hajj Umar. As photographer and publisher of postcards, he visited
Senegal and Guinea, Mali in 1906, Ivory- coast, Benin and Lagos in 1908..." Sells
copies of the postcards. Site maintained by Jacques Krekelaar. http://home.planet.nl/~kreke003
- Colonial Film:
Moving Images of The British Empire
- "scholarly and archival project to investigate the history of moving images of the British Empire." "will produce a detailed online catalogue of the entire corpus of films representing British colonies either factually or fictionally held by the British Film Institute, the Imperial War Museum, and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum." Will produce "30 hours of digitised film." Has sample catalog entries. Site hosted by the British Film Institute. http://www.bfi.org.uk/about/news/2009-05-27-colonial.html
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The Commission maintains graves / memorials throughout the world for
members of the Commonwealth forces who died in World Wars I and II. Has
statistics on the number of Commonwealth war dead commemorated by country,
for ex. 50,000 + in Kenya, 8,000 + in South Africa, 5,000 + in Tanzania,
4,000 + in Nigeria, 900+ in Eritrea, etc. Select "Global Commitment" then "breakdown
by country." http://www.cwgc.org/
- Compact Memory
- In German. German Jewish periodicals from 1806-1938 full text online. Find through a keyword search references to Africa-related topics. Project of the German Reseach Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG). http://www.compactmemory.de/
- Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)
- Trade, Politics, and Identity in the Colonial Indian Ocean. Volume XIX, No. 2, 1999 is a special issue guest edited by Edward A. Alpers. Pub. by Duke University Press. Full text articles include -
Edward Alpers - Introduction.
Trade, Politics and Identity in the Colonial Indian Ocean 2 p. in PDF.
Vijaya Teelock: The Influence of Slavery in the Formation of Creole Identity; [Mauritius]
Erik Gilbert: Sailing from Lamu and Back: Labor Migration and Regional Trade in Colonial East Africa;
Charles Schaefer: "Selling at a Wash": Competition and the Indian Merchant Community in Aden Crown Colony;
James R. Brennan: South Asian Nationalism in an East African Context: The Case of Tanganyika, 1914-1956. http://www.cssaame.ilstu.edu/issues/V19-2/
- Conference
in Commemoration of Amilcar Cabral, Cape Verdean Progressive Club,
East Providence, RI, July 6, 2002 - Amilcar Cabral and His Legacy
- Photographs from the conference a few full text papers:
- "Amilcar Cabral in Colonial Guinea-Bissau: Context, Challenges
and Conquests" by
Dr. Peter Karibe Mendy of Rhode Island College (12 pages in
Adobe pdf).
- "Amilcar Cabral on Internationalism: Policies, Practices,
Promises and Problems" by Richard Lobban, Professor of African Studies,
Rhode Island College (6 pages, in
Adobe pdf). Hosted on the Rhode
Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission web site. http://www.rihphc.state.ri.us/cape%20verde%20pages/htg_cvcabral.html
- Le Congo Par Ses
Timbres 1891 / 1991
- Has photographs of stamps from the former French Congo, a bibliography
of articles on the stamps in Colfra bulletin. The site owner is
a member of Association Philatélique
des Collectionneurs de Timbres Poste des Anciennes Colonies Françaises.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/alcodaltpcongo/
- Congregation du Saint-Esprit (Montreal)
- Includes biographies of missionaries serving in Africa.
Jacques Laval (1803-1864)
served in Mauritius - http://www.spiritains.qc.ca/Historique/laval.htm
- Daniel
Brottier (1876-1936) served in Senegal - http://www.spiritains.qc.ca/Historique/brottier.htm
François
Libermann (1802-1852) - http://www.spiritains.qc.ca/Historique/libermann.htm
See also their Paris office, archives, and journal, Memoire Spiritain,
described in the section: Libraries & Archives
in Europe.
- Cornell University.
Library. Making of America
- "a digital library of primary sources [mainly from 1840
- 1900] in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction." Has scanned images of the full
text of books and articles. A search on Cecil Rhodes, for
example, produces 102 matches in 57 journal articles.
Examples of article titles: The Ultimate Triumph of the Boers,
Briton and Boer in South Africa, Military Problems in South Africa,
A French General's Defense of the Boers, The Historical Causes of the
Present War in South Africa, Problems of the Transvaal,
The Responsibility of Cecil Rhodes. [KF] http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
- Davis,
Richard Harding- "Real Soldiers of Fortune"
- Full text of the book (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1911, 228 pp.) Includes
- accounts of a young Winston Churchill's escape from a South African prison
during the Boer War (South African War)
- American Frederick Russell Burnham's participation in the 1st and 2nd
Matabele Uprisings, the Boer War, his killing of Umlimo, and brief mention
of his visits to Ashanti and East Africa. Part of Project Gutenberg Etext.
[KF] http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3029
- Des frontières en Afrique du XIIe au XXe siècle.
- In French. Full text book. Paris: UNESCO, 2005. 313 pages, in PDF.
Papers from a 1999 Bamako conference. Includes authors - Alpha Oumar Konaré, président de la République du Mali, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Boubacar Barry, Anthony I. Asiwaju, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Pierre Kipré, Patrick Harries, Thierno Bah, Martin Z. Njeuma, Sékéné Mody Cissokom and others.
Topics include - quel avenir pour les frontières africaines ?, cas en Afrique australe et orientale, cas en Afrique centrale, l’exemple des chefferies Bamiléké et du royaume Bamum, la frontière entre le Cameroun et le Nigeria (1885-1992), cas en Afrique du Nord et du Nord-Ouest, les frontières du Songhaï à la fin du XVe et au XVIe siècle, le Soudan-Mali du XVIIe au XIXe siècle, le Burkina Faso et ses voisins aux XIXe et XXe siècles, etc. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/
- Die
Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (DKG) Bildarchiv
- In English and German. The Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main has
put on-line a large keyword
searchable database of colonial era photographs, 1822-1936,
from the archives of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft [German Colonial
Society], a major organization behind Germany's colonial expansion. Covers
Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Togo, etc. One can click on the small
photos to see a larger version. The database can be searched by Region,
Subject Areas, Keyword, Person, Photographer, People. The collection, of
thousands of photographs, is also being microfilmed for preservation. Description of the Image Collection of the German Colonial Society. [B.Lawrance
and KF]
http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/
- Dierks, Dr. Klaus - Namibia
Library - History
- "the first complete chronology
on Namibian history from the precolonial times to the date of independence
(1990) and the story of the only so far discovered ruins
of precolonial Namibia (//Khauxa!nas)..." Has a history
of Namibia telecommunications, a lecture on foreign
aid, a history
of Walvis Bay, reports on water, energy, roads, railways. Dr. Dierks
is former Deputy Minister of the first Ministry of Roads and Transport
(later Mines and Energy) in Namibia (until March 2000). Is now Chairman
of Namibia's Energy Control Board. http://www.klausdierks.com
- Durham
University - Sudan Archive
- The finding aid for Durham's Sudan Archive which contains the
papers of over 260 institutions and individuals (administrators, soldiers,
missionaries and others who served in the Sudan), from 1883-1956, is online.
The finding aid includes the papers of General Sir Reginald Wingate, Sir
Harold MacMichael, Sir James Robertson, and the Gordon Memorial College
Trust Fund. Has some material from the post-independence period and papers
relating to countries bordering the Sudan. The Sudan Archive includes photographs,
films, maps, museum objects. http://flambard.dur.ac.uk:6336/dynaweb/guides/ascguide/xmlpointer(ID(SAD))
- Durham University Library has holdings of books, periodicals and ephemeral
material listed in their online
catalog.
- Dutch Portuguese
Colonial History
- Dutch in South Africa, Portuguese language heritage in Africa, European
forts in Ghana, Madagascar, Chronology
of Portuguese possessions in Africa, Chronology
of Dutch Possessions in Africa, the Dutch in Mauritius, bibliographies.
Maintained by Marco Ramerini from Firenze, Italy. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/
- Eboué, Félix
- Eboué, Governor of Chad, during World War II, aligned with Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces in defiance of the Vichy regime. Eboué, originally from French Guiana, became Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa. He is buried in the
Pantheon in Paris.
Centre des Archives d'Outre Mer. Exposition Félix Eboué, Pantheon, Paris. In French. October 14 - November 5, 2004, the Centre held a conference and exhibition in Paris celebrating the 60th anniversary of the death of Eboué. Photographs from Eboué's life (at the Ecole coloniale, map of French Equatorial Africa, letter from General de Gaulle to Eboué, Eboué at the Brazzaville Conference, etc. [KF] http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caom/fr/expo/index_expo.html
Exposition FÉLIX EBOUÉ à la Médiathèque Caraïbe. In French. Biography and bibliography. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lameca/neuf/programme/expo_eboue_03_2005.htm
- Elwin International
Tours
- "Offers package tours to Ghana. Focus is on black history, education,
ecology and leisure. Visits to Slave Castles of 15/16th centuries, game
reserves, festivals and other historic sites." An Elmina-Java Museum
detailing the history of "The Black Dutchmen" will open in October
2002. Contains an account of "The
Black Dutchmen: The Story of African Soldiers in The Netherlands East Indes." http://elwininternational.com
- EmpireHist
Discussion List
- "...an e-mail discussion group whose primary focus is the history
of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the 15th century onwards. The
list is open to all persons interested in the British Empire and in British
colonial and imperial history." http://website.lineone.net/~british_empire/index.html
- Exposition universelle de Bruxelles 1910
- In French. "Ce site présente l'exposition universelle de Bruxelles 1910 à travers les cartes postales et documents de la collection personnelle de Xavier Languy." Has postcards of the pavillions for Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique. http://users.telenet.be/expo1910/
- Le Fait Missionnaire (Histoire
et Héritage -- Approche Pluridisciplinaire)
- Has the table of contents for this journal (published in Lausanne, Switzerland)
on missionary history in Africa. http://www.lefaitmissionnaire.com
- France. Bibliotheque nationale.
Gallica
- Gallica is an online exhibit of images and full text from 19th century
books and journals. Included are illustrations from 16 African travel
and ethnographic books from the Library of the Musee de l'Homme. For
example, from Esquisses sénégalaises, Physionomie du pays, Peuplades,
Commerce, Religions, Passé et avenir, Récits et légendes [Paris :
P. Bertrand , 1853], there are portraits of Senegalese women. http://gallica.bnf.fr/
- France. Bibliotheque
nationale. Voyages en Afrique
- In French. "900 volumes de textes, 30 titres de revues, 80 cartes
venant des collections imprimées de la BnF, 20 heures d'enregistrements
sonores des fonds du Musée de la parole et du geste et 6500 photographies
issues des fonds de la Société de géographie." Access
documents by type (books, journals, maps, photographs), geographic
area, era. Part of the French national library's Gallica site. http://gallica.bnf.fr/VoyagesEnAfrique/
- Contents include:
Maps of peoples and kingdoms, colonial history, physical map,
antique maps, nautical maps
Full text books, journal articles, maps illustrating themes:
L'Europe découvre l'Afrique, L'Afrique des cultures, Histoire
coloniale : la France en Afrique, L'Afrique vue depuis la France.
Journal articles (Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie
de Paris; Bulletin de la Société de géographie
de Paris; le Tour du Monde, 1860-1914; La Géographie; Bulletin
de la Société de géographie commerciale de Bordeaux;
Revue maritime et coloniale, Annales des voyages, de la géographie
et de l'histoire: Nouvelles annales des voyages, de la géographie
et de l'histoire. and many more.
A Bibliography and a Chronology and Music from the
1930s and earlier (see L'Afrique vue depuis la France).
- French Colonial Historical
Society / Société d'histoire coloniale française
- "...encourages interest in the scholarly study of all French colonizing
activity and in the history of all French colonies." Publishes a newsletter and
the annual issue of the Proceedings. "awards the Heggoy Prize
annually for an outstanding book on French colonial history, and
it presents the Eccles Prize to the best paper by a graduate student delivered
at an FCHS conference and subsequently submitted for publication by the
Society." http://www.frenchcolonial.org/
- George Mason University. Center for History and New Media - Women in World History
- Primary sources about women and gender with guidelines to using primary sources. Sources include excerpts from the 17th c. Journal of Jan van Riebeeck, letters of the grand-daughter of Jan van Riebeeck, rock art of the San, drawings, narrative of the Cape (Southern Africa) 1705 to 1713, the situation of slaves in the Cape, letter of Mary Moffat, narrative by Mary Kingsley, autobiography of Buchi Emecheta, African novels, excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Conditions. http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html
Has
a case study by Beverly Mack on Nana Asma'u, Muslim Woman Scholar and one by Jeremy D. Popkin, The Calling of Katie Makanya (South Africa 1873-1956) and a classroom module on Cultural Contact in Southern Africa (17th century including slavery).
Holds online forums for teachers; the forum beginning October 1, 2005 is Women in World History. Beginning November 2005 is a forum on Women in Africa.
- Gold Coast. Annual departmental reports relating to the Gold Coast and British Togoland.
- Microform Academic Publishers sells 112 microfilm reels of the Annual departmental reports relating to the Gold Coast and British Togoland. [East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England : EP Microform, 1979-
1980.
112 microfilm reels.
Series: Government publications relating to African countries prior to independence.] There is an online guide to the microfilm collection - 15 p. in PDF. Some libraries have the microfilm. Partial holdings - U. Wisconsin, U. of Glasgow. Complete holdings: Emory U.; CAMP-CRL. http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R97004.pdf
- Gold Coast. Government publications relating to the Gold Coast, 1846-1957
- Microform Academic Publishers sells 151 microfilm reels called Government publications relating to the Gold Coast, 1846-1957 [ East Ardsley, Yorkshire : EP Microform Ltd. ; 151 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.] Contents are Blue Books, the Gold Coast Gazette, and some Annual Reports. There is an online guide to the microfilm collection - 12 p. in PDF. Some libraries have partial or complete holdings of the microfilm - Howard, Emory, Florida State, CAMP-CRL, U. of Pennsylvania. http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R96929.pdf
- Graham
(Billy) Center Archives, Wheaton College, IL
- Collections on African Christianity from mainly North American Protestant
missionaries and some African churches and organizations. Most records
are 20th century; 75% concern east or central Africa. Examples are the
diaries of Bernard Litchman, a health officer in Zaire from 1917 to 1961,
and Elwood Davis, a physician, in Kenya 1910 to 1949.
Collections include those of the Africa
Inland Mission and individual missionaries. Has the text of an interview
with Paul P. Stough, a missionary with the Africa Inland Mission in Zaire
(from 1928 to the early 1960s) during Belgian colonial rule which offers
insights into relations with the Zairois, Belgian officials, the Catholic
missions, etc.
Its Images
of Colonial Africa exhibit are photographs by missionary Laura
Collins of Kenya, Cameroon, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda in the early 1900s.
A 48 page list of the Graham Center's Africa-related collections is available
by e-mail from: bgcarc@david.wheaton.edu
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/archhp1.html
- Great
Britain. Colonial Office. Sectional List No. 34 (in Adobe
PDF)
- For those with access to British command papers, this is a subject index
to some of these documents, mainly for the 1950s (scanned from the print
publication, London, H.M.S.O., 1961). In addition, publications designated
Colonial no. can be found by subject, region/country, and by colonal no.
From the library
finding aids at Stanford Univ. [KF] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/co300.pdf
- Great
Britain. Public Record Office. - Southern Rhodesia Seal Matrices, Elizabeth
II
- The PRO's Virtual Museum shows "seal
matrices for the seal of Southern Rhodesia, with their copper counterpart." Click
on the photo for a closeup. Part of the Empire section
whicn includes an Empire
map. http://www.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/maingalleries/empire/matrices/default.htm
- Gross-Friedrichsburg
in Princess Town Ghana
- In English and German. About a film and book, "Rote Adler an
Afrikas Küste. Die brandenburgisch-preußische Kolonie Großfriedrichsburg
in Westafrika" on a Prussian fort on the coast of Ghana built
by Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg (1640 - 1688)." Includes a chronology,
map, Site by Selignow, publisher of the book on the Prussian fort. The "Brandenburg
- Princess Town - Eine Welt e.V." association supports maintainence of
the fort. http://www.gross-friedrichsburg.de
- H-French-Colonial: H-Net Network on the History of French Colonialism
- Moderated discussion list sponsored by the French Colonial Historical Society. http://www.h-net.org/~frenchco
To subscribe send an email message to:
listserv@h-net.msu.edu
Leave out styled text, signatures. In the Message area put:
sub H-French-Colonial firstname lastname, institution
Or Subscribe at http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi
email: help@mail.h-net.msu.edu
- Histoire de la colonisation
belge du Congo
- In French. Includes interviews with Adam
Hochschild and Jules
Marchal, maps (Congo
in 1900, Katanga, the districts), photographs, a bibliography, the
Dec. 2000 article "Léopold
II, Baudouin et la commission Lumumba," information on a play
about Belgian colonization, links to related sites, etc. Maintained
by Patrick Cloos, based in Montreal. http://www.cobelco.org/
- Historical
Atlas of the Twentieth Century
- from Matthew
White
- Has a map of Africa
in the early 1900s showing colonial possessions, a map
of the Maji Maji rebellion 1905-1906, boundaries of the former Biafra (Nigeria), Southern
Africa 1968-1975, the Chad
civil war mid to late 1980s, Sudan
civil war 1983. M. White is a librarian, see his FAQ.
The Systems of Government maps are not quite accurate. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
- Indiana
University Libraries. Nuer Field Notes
- A project to "preserve and make accessible a set of linguistic
field notes [on the Nuer language] recorded
by Eleanor Vandevort, who was a missionary in the South Sudan
between 1949 and 1963." Includes the full text of the book, A
Leopard Tamed, by Eleanor Vandevort, a biography of Eleanor Vandevort,
by Dr. Marion Frank-Wilson, a History of Colonial and Missionary
Linguistics in the Southern Sudan, by Dr. Edward Miner, Pedagogical
Grammar of Nuer, slides of life in Southern Sudan, and
a bibliography. [KF] http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/nuer/
- Institut National
de l'Audiovisuel, INA
- The INA houses French archives of radio and TV broadcasts. Listen to "Aimé Césaire, poète et homme politique, au 1er congrès mondial des écrivains et des artistes noirs" in 1956. http://www.ina.fr/visite/mediatheque/index.fr.html http://www.ina.fr/extraits/recherche_theme.php
- Institiute of Social Studies, Netherlands
- "The ISS is an international institute of higher education on social
and economic change with a focus on development processes. It was founded
50 years ago by the Dutch universities to assist in the training and further
education of professionals, especially from developing countries." Many ISS
Working Papers are in full text online. http://www.iss.nl/
- Example - Proletarianisation, agency and changing rural livelihoods
: forced labour and resistance in colonial Mozambique / Bridget
O'Laughlin - 2001
- Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)
- On Facebook. Must be on Facebook to access site. Research group based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. "a scientific platform of communication for all those interested in this particular region, its global connections and diasporas world-wide." Dr. Jacqueline Knoerr is Head of the Group. http://www.facebook.com/groups/219380771441354/
- International
Census Collection Online Catalog, University of Texas (Austin)
- A bibliography of census holdings from the 1940s-1990s, mainly population
and housing censuses. Lists African
censuses. "Census volumes may be borrowed through interlibrary
loan by libraries in the United States except when materials are fragile
or in cases where the University of Texas at Austin holds the only known
copy." http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/icc/index.html
- International Council on Archives
- The ICA's membership includes national archives in Africa and elsewhere.
Has a national archives directory,
an archives socities directory,
and a personal name index.
http://www.ica.org/
- Internet
African History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall
- Has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes
the Black Athena Debate, human origins, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Islam in
Africa, West African kingdoms, Great Zimbabwe, religion, the slave trade,
excerpts from "Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life
of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African" (London,
1789), David Livingstone, excerpt from Edward Morel's Black
Man's Burden, 1903, Nkrumah,
the "Loi-Cadre" of
June 23, 1956, Jomo
Kenyatta speech 1952, Arusha
Declaration, 1967, speech
by Kenneth Kaunda on African Development and Foreign Aid (1966), statements/speeches
on Rhodesia's
Unilateral Declaration of Independence 1965, and more. Maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. [KF] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
- Interval
Signals Archive. Southern African Clandestines
- Has audio clips of Radio Freedom, the voice of the African
National Congress during the 1970s. (requires a sound
card, Real Player). The Radio Zambia clip has short segment of Nkosi
Sikelel' iAfrika. Also has clips from SWAPO's Voice of Namibia, the
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Voice, the Voice of Free Africa (a conservative
station), UNITA's the Voice of the Cockerel, and the Voice of Free Africa
(an anti-SWAPO station). Web site based in Reading, Berkshire, U.K. [KF]
http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/african_clandestines.htm
- Journal of African
History (Cambridge University Press)
- Full text access to recent issues for those at institutions subscribing
to the print journal. Ask your librarian for the username and password.
The articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The PDF files are very large.
http://www.journals.cup.org/
- Journal of World History
- Official journal of the World History Association. Published by the University of Hawaii Press. http://www.historycooperative.org/jwhindex.html
Articles include:
Africans and Asians: Historiography and the Long View of Global Interaction. By Maghan Keita.
Review of Christopher Ehret's The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
Reviewed by PATRICK MANNING
Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission Ideology. By
Michael Adas.
Review of Martin Bernal's Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics.
Reviewed by YAACOV SHAVIT
The World's Oldest Trade": Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century. By Marcus Vink.
- Landais, Etienne - Sur les doctrines des vétérinaires coloniaux français en Afrique noire.
- In French. Full text article. 39 p. in PDF. In Cahiers des Sciences Humaines (1990, Vol. 26, No 1-2, p. 33-71.) Has a bibliography. Vol. 26, Nos. 1/2 also contains other articles such as Derrière les clôtures . . .Essai d’histoire comparée de ranchs africains by Jean Boutrais. The Cahiers.... were formerly the Cahiers ORSTOM, série Sciences Humaines. http://www.bondy.ird.fr/tdp/sci_hum/tables_sci_hum/1990_26_01.htm
- Landau,
Paul - "Photography and Colonial Vision"
- Excerpt from a 1999 draft essay by Prof. Landau, History
Dept., Yale University. To be pub. in "Images and Empires:
Visuality in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa," edited by Paul
S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin). (H-Africa's Africa Forum
#6) http://www.h-net.org/~africa/africaforum/Landau.html
- Lire les femmes écrivains et les littératures africaines / Francophone
African Literature
- From the Dept. of French Studies, University of Western Australia on Francophone
African writers, esp. women writers. Includes interviews in French with
the writers by the Dept. and
from Amina magazine, information on the
literature of Benin, Cameroun, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinee, Mali, Senegal,
Zaire, biographical
information on the writers, bibliographies, and a directory
of Francophone African book publishers, summaries of books by women authors during the colonial period.
Editor of the site is J. Volet. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChome.html
- Maji Maji Bibliography Project
- Project by students in the African Studies Department of Humboldt-University
at Berlin, Germany. "About 100 years ago, in late July 1905,
the Maji Maji rebellion broke out in the Matumbi Hills in southern Tanzania.
It was the greatest challenge German colonial rule ever faced in
East Africa, leading to far reaching administrative and political reforms
in the colony." Contains citations to and annotations on 67 "articles published
by contemporary observers in German newspapers and journals - which non-German
speakers often have great difficulties to locate." Also has chapters
from books. "The main criterion for inclusion was whether the author
was a direct observer of the events of 1905-1907." Has indexes to
persons, places, and groups. The articles (bibliography) can be arranged
by source or author. http://www.mhudi.de/maji
- Mali
Interactive
- Accounts of archaeological excavations and information on the people
and culture of Jenné. The project leaders include Rod and Susan McIntosh
from Rice University's Anthropology Dept. A goal is to save archaeological
information from destruction by erosion. Jenné is the earliest known urban
settlement south of the Sahara and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Photos,
news, teaching resources, information on Mali and archaeology. Questions about archaeology and Mali. Links to
a historical geography unit for grade
6 on Timbuktu and the Niger River by Ginny White. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/mali-interactive/index.html
- [Mandume
ya Ndemufayo] President Unveils Heros Monument
- Speech, Friday, February 08, 2002, by Namibia's President Sam Nujoma
at the unveiling of a monument to King Mandume ya Ndemufayo. "King
Mandume ya Ndemufayo, died fighting the Portuguese and British-South African
colonial troops at the Oihole village in 1917." Gives an extended
account of Mandume's
resistance struggle against the British-South African and Portuguese forces.
From the Namibia Government official
web site's News Archive. http://www.grnnet.gov.na/News/Archive/2002/February/Week2/monument.htm
- Maps
(Historical) of Africa - Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, Univ.
of Texas at Austin
- The Univ. of Texas has historical African maps online. Some are very
large; best to access only on a fast connection. They also have links
to historical map sites some having maps of Africa.
African maps: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_africa.html
- Marguerat,
Yves - Lomé, un siecle d'images, 1884-1990
- In French. The site Togo
Contact from the Centre SYFED-REFER de Lomé (a research network)
has photographs and some text from Marguerat's book, Lome un siecle
d'images, 1884-1990 (Lomé : Presses de l'Universite du Benin, [1993-1996, v.
1-2) which is an economic history of Lomé. Shows hotels, business leaders,
factories, rail/air transport, markets, craftsmen, etc.
- http://www.refer.org/togo_ct/tur/lome/accueil.htm
- The Material
Culture of Twins in West Africa - History
- "The treatment of twins in West Africa is particularly unusual,
possibly due to the high twin rate in this area." Includes twin
myths, a history of Cameroon with bibliography,
a slide
show of Cameroon scenes and art work. Site by Rachael Sydenham-Ndi,an
undergraduate at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, working
on an honour's
thesis in the Archaeology Department. http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ndi/
- Matowanyika,
Joseph Z. Z. - History of Land Use in Zimbabwe from 1900
- Paper prepared for the Leadership for Environment and Development 1997
conference.
Paper: http://www.lead.org/lead/training/international/zimbabwe/1997/papers/d1matowan.html
About LEAD: http://www.lead.org/lead/about_lead.htm
- Media History of Tanzania
- Site on Tanzania press freedom; does not work in the Netscape browser.
Has a slide show on the press history of Tanzania "From Msimulizi
to Majira. From Afrika Kwetu to the Zanzibar Voice. From 1888 to the present." http://www.afrika.info/mediahistorytanzania.html
"The Media History of Tanzania" (by Martin Sturmer, Ndanda Mission
Press, Ndanda 1999, 979 kb).
"Watchdog in Chains: Media Regulations in Tanzania from their Colonial
Beginnings to the Era of Democratisation" (by Ayub Rioba and Martin
Sturmer, in: Stefan Brüne [ed.]: Neue Medien und Öffentlichkeiten, Schriften
des Deutschen Übersee Instituts, Hamburg 2000, 128 kb). 32 p.
- Miller,
Joseph - "History and Africa / Africa and History"
- Miller's American Historical Association Presidential Address, 8 January
1999. "A much longer, slightly differently focused text with
full documentation will be published in the first issue for 1999 of the American
Historical Review." The oral presentation is hosted by
the Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS). http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/jmahapa.htm.
- Mountain Voices
- A rich resource. "interviews with over 300 people who live
in mountain and highland regions round the world. Their testimonies offer
a personal perspective on change and development." To access the interviews,
one needs to register and fill out a questionnaire. Interviews from Lesotho,
Kenya, Ethiopia, gathered by the Oral Testimony Programme of the Panos
Institute. Topics discussed include agriculture, community, conflict, culture,
development, economics, education, employment, environment, family life,
festivals, food security, forestry, gender, health, history, identity,
industry, crime, land, migration, politics, spiritual beliefs, tourism,
etc. [KF] http://www.mountainvoices.org/
- Mozambique
- David Forrest
- Slide show with study questions, profile of Samora Machel, visit with
the Mozambique Ambassador, interview with a Portuguese soldier in Mozambique,
page on history. Prepared for a World Studies class at James Logan High
School, Union City, California by David Forrest. http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Mozambique/Mozambique.html
- Mozambique On-Line - Wim
Neeleman
- In Portuguese. Annotated directory of web sites about Mozambique, arranged
by subjects including traditional stories, photographs, history,
etc. Based on a column by Neeleman in the e-newsletter, NoTMoc - Notícias
de Moçambique. Maintained by Wim Neeleman. http://www.tropical.co.mz/~wim/historia/index.html
- Musée royal de l'afrique
centrale - The Memory of Congo: the Colonial Era and Congo: Nature and
Culture
- In French, English, Kiswahili. Two temporary exhibitions (Feb. 4 - Oct.
9, 2005) on the colonial history of the Congo and Belgium and on Congo Nature
and Culture. Includes 44 page exhibition catalog in PDF, audio clips of music from
the Munganga of Luabo and of
Mbuti pygmees. [KF] http://www.congo2005.be/
An extensive review of the exhibition is in the New York
Times, February 9,
2005, B3, "Museum Show Forces Belgium to Ask Hard Questions About Its Colonial
Past" by Alan Riding. "a remarkable exhibition here has set off a critical
re-examination of Belgium's record in its only African colony."
- Myers,
Norman - Jouney of an Environmental Scientist
- 1998 interview with Myers, an environmental scientist and Fellow at Green
College, Oxford University. He was a colonial
administrator in Kenya in 1958 and has played a leading role in alerting
the world to the loss of biodiversity. Includes Myers' photographs of Kenya's
wildlife. [KF] http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Myers/myers-con0.html
- National
Archives of Nigeria, Enugu Branch - Guides, Indices & Finding Aids,
by U.O.A. Esse, Chief Archivist
- Contains the following reference works: (1) Guide to the Sources of Nigerian
History at the National Archives of Nigeria, Enugu (1991) (2) A General
Reference Index to the Records at the National Archives, Enugu (1991) (3)
Special List of General Reports (Administrative and Departmental) in the
National Archives, Enugu, 1900-1956 (1988) (4) An Index to Intelligence
Reports, Anthropological Reports, Assessment Reports and Re-organisation
Reports in the National Archives, Enugu (1992) (5) Descriptive Index to
Records Relating to the Economic History of Nigeria 1900-1965 (1993) (6)
Descriptive Index to Records Relating to the Military History of Nigeria
(1993). On the website of the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin,
Germany. http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/inside/orient/nae
- National
Geographic - Forbidden Territory, Stanley's Search for Livingstone
- About National Geographic's TV program. Has graphics from The Life
and Work of David Livingstone (1900). In the "40....views" section,
click on the little red TV at the top to see photos from the TV program.Send
a postcard of Livingstone being attacked by a lion! http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lantern/welcome.html
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
United Kingdom - Port
- "The National Maritime Museum (Greenwich,
London) has the largest and best collection of maritime-related artefacts
in the world." Sections include "Slavery" with
images (and a paragraph on each image) of The Slave Trade, the
Abolition Movement, Trade with Colonial Africa and the "Scramble
for Africa." Has a timeline, a database connecting geographic
locations to historical events, research guides for those doing in depth
research. http://www.PORT.nmm.ac.uk
- National Union Catalog
of Manuscript Collections
- An excellent resource for locating U.S.
archival holdings on Africa. NUCMC is a database operated by the
U.S. Library of Congress providing information on archival holdings in
the U.S. To search select: NUCMC Z39.50 Gateway to the
RLIN AMC file
If you can't tell from the record which repository has the
collection, select the Tagged Display option at the bottom
of the page and scroll to the end of the Tagged Display screen. [KF]
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/
- Nkrumah Infosite
- A biography, bibliography of books on Nkrumah, photographs, audio clips.
Designed by Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli for R4R productions. http://www.nkrumah.net/indexes/z1.html
- Northern Rhodesians Worldwide
- Has a directory with biographical information on members, stories of
life in Northern Rhodesia, historical photographs and excerpts from the "British
South Africa Historical Catalogue & Souvenir of Rhodesia from the Empire
Exhibition, Johannesburg, 1936-1937." http://www.niner.net/nr/
- Northwestern
University. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies - African
Posters
- Has online images of 77 posters, part of a larger collection. Posters
are from anti-apartheid movements, South Africa under apartheid, the 1994
South African election and Lusophone / Southern Africa liberation movements.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html
- Northwestern University. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Winterton Collection
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar) photographs comprises c. 7,600 photographs taken primarily in East Africa between about 1860 and 1960. A sample of 101 images are on-line and album views. Has an inventory. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton/index.html
- Northwestern
University. PAS Working Papers Series
- Full text papers, in Adobe pdf, showcase "writings in African
studies by Northwestern faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates,
as well as work by PAS visiting scholars and resident research fellows." http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/publications.htm
Examples:
PAS Working Paper No. 1 (1996) Dangerous Liaisons: Colonial Concubinage
in Eritrea, 1890-1941 by Giulia Barrera
PAS Working Paper No. 6 (2000) Chacun pour soi: Africa and the French
State 1958-1998 by Scott Greer
PAS Working Paper No. 9 (2000) Reimagining Tradition: The Politics of Succession
in Colonial Buganda by Neil Kodesh
- Old Africa: Stories from East Africa's Past (Kijabe, Kenya)
- Kijabe, Kenya : Kifaru Educational and Editorial Consultants. On-line edition of the print magazine. "publishes stories, personal memories, and vintage photographs to recapture East Africa's recent history" up to the mid1960's. Selected stories on-line. Historic photo contest for each issue. [KF] http://oldafricamagazine.com/
- Pistes et recherche, Revue Scientifique (Institut Supérieur
Pédagogique, Kikwit, DRC)
- In French. Has full text articles from Volume 12, Numéro 3, 1997, such
as "Contribution à l'histoire
du recrutement de la main-d'oeuvre indigène au Congo-Belge. Cas du
colonat européen au Kwilu (Bandundu) et à Kalima (Maniema)" by SUNKEYI-DA
Yekama-Yeyu. http://www.congonline.com/Culture/Publications/Pistes_et_Recherches/PR.htm
- Planum: European Journal of Planning
- Information on German architecht, Ernst May (1886-1970), who was Town Planner in Kampala, Uganda, during the 1940s. Maps of Kampala, architectural drawings of housing schemes.
Planum is the e-journal of the Planum Association which concerns urban development and environment preservation. http://www.planum.net/archive/masters.htm
- Pombe.
Alcoholic Beverages in East Africa, 1850-1998
- "study of social and economic change in East Africa through the
lens of alcohol." Making beer, selling it, taxing it, controlling
it, beer wars, etc. A research project of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge
University. http://www.african.cam.ac.uk/ASC_home_page/pombe/title.htm
- Postcards - Centre
Edmond Fortier
- In Dutch, English, French. Photographs by Edmond Fortier on historical
postcards,1900 - 1910. Has an exhibition of postcards from Guinee
(1905), Tombouctou (1906), Benin (1908), Saint-Louis (1900), Djenné (1905). "Includes
photographs of l
'Almami" Samori Touré, the son
of El Hajj Umar. As photographer and publisher of postcards, he visited
Senegal and Guinea, Mali in 1906, Ivory- coast, Benin and Lagos in 1908..." Sells
copies of the postcards. Site maintained by Jacques Krekelaar. [KF] http://home.planet.nl/~kreke003
- Postcards
- Electronic African Postcards
- Send historical
African postcards. From a UNESCO site.
- http://www.unesco.org/webworld/e_cards/index.html
- Postcards - West
African Postcards / Cartes Postales d'Afrique de l'ouest, 1895-1930
- An exhibit of historical postcards of Mali (Soudan francais)
and West Africa from a cd-rom (960 francs) produced by
l'Association Images & Memoires and UNESCO. Shows Bamako, Tombouctou,
Bandiagara, women, colonial scenes, chiefs (Sidi Moctar, Behanzin, Samory
Toure en captivité, Oba of Benin, notables from Mossi, Sierra Leone, Accra).
Hosted on the Université Laval (Canada) site. http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/gersa/Images.html
- Queen Victoria's
Empire
- Site for a public television special. Has a timeline, profiles of David
Livingstone, Cecil Rhodes; take a quiz to win the Victoria Cross. Has lesson
plans (in MS Word) including "The Role of Racism in Victoria's
Empire." [KF] http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/
- Quinzaine coloniale (Paris)
- In French. Full text issues of the 1901-1913 indexes are online. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34425263p/date.r=presence+africaine.langEN
- Schmidt,
Nancy - "Africana Resources for Undergraduates: A Bibliographic
Essay"
- An annotated by Dr. Schmidt (former Africana Librarian, Indiana University)
to print and electronic database resources. Includes a section on History.
Published in Phyllis M. Martin and Patrick O'Meara (eds.), Africa.
Third edition. ( Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1995, pp. 413-434.) " The author would
like to point out that this essay, published in 1995 and written a year
before, does not reflect some more recent publications and web resources." http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/schmidt.html
- Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture
- The well-known branch of the New York Public Library devoted to the history,
society, and culture of people of African descent has an online exhibition,
the Schomburg
Legacy, Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century. It
features art work, historical documents and letters, the Herskovits Collection,
the John Henrik Clarke Collection, the Ralph J. Bunche Collection and other. The
Schomburg's exhibition, Images of African-Americans
from the 19th Century, includes photographs of diplomats to Liberia
and Bishop Sameul A. Crowther, first African Anglican bishop. [KF] http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
- Secrets of the Dead - Day of the Zulu
- "In December 1878, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, the British High Commissioner in South Africa, issued an ultimatum to the Zulu ruler, Cetshwayo kaMpande, to disband his army and hand over control of his nation to a British representative." Questions for students. Interview with Ian Knight. Related web sites. Produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_zulu/index.html
- Shick, Tom W., Roll
of the Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia Sent by the American Colonization
Society from 1820-1843
- The raw data and documentation which records all emigrants to Liberia
between 1820-1843, brought by the American Colonization Society can be downloaded. The
data set includes place of origin/arrival, status of individual, occupation,
name of the ship which carried the emigrant, etc. Bundled with this is
the data set, Liberian Census Data, 1843. The late,Tom Shick, Dept.
of Afro-American Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, was Principal Investigator
of this project. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Liberia
- SIELEC, Société Internationale d’Etude des Littératures de l’Ere Coloniale
- Full text articles. Profiles of writers. Publishes a journal, Cahiers; has the table of contents. SIELEC organizes conferences.
"Par littératures de l’ère coloniale, nous entendons tous textes ou documents qui ont pu traiter du problème colonial, .......: Récits de voyages et d’exploration, romans inspirés par l’outre-mer, textes produits par les divers agents de la colonisation (administrateurs civils, militaires, missionnaires, enseignants, géographes et autres), textes et discours politiques, littérature de l’esclavage, rapports et relevés d’ethnologie, données d’anthropologie appliquée, littérature pour enfants, B.D. (de Tintin à Tarzan) manuels scolaires, cinéma colonial, iconographie coloniale (cartes postales et affiches), architecture néo-coloniale, musique, peinture (Delacroix, Matisse), etc." Based in Montpellier, France. http://www.sielec.net
- Societies After Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West Indies
- Edited by Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, and Aims McGuinness. Originally published as a print book - Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002. Full text. Covers British Colonial Africa and South Africa. Each section has an essay and annotated entries. Compilers include Fred Cooper, Pamela Scully, etc. "the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa." Part of the Univ. of Pittsburg Digital Library. http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35413
- Stanford Humanities Lab - Court Records
- French Soudan (Mali) Colonial Law Database Project - part of History Professor Richard Robert's research on the "meanings of power, authority, and challenges to authority" in colonial French Soudan [Mali]. [KF] http://www.stanford.edu/group/shl/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/47
- Studies in the History of the African Diaspora – Documents, SHADD
- 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
Documents of the French Slave Trade on West Africa (in French)
- 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, the
colonial influence on Sukuma chiefs, 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/
- Tayler,
Jeffrey, "Vessel of Last Resort"
- Article published in the Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1996 of Tayler's
1,100 mile trip on the Congo River from Kinshasa to Kisangani. Includes
excerpts from the writings of the nineteenth-century explorer, Henry
Morton Stanley, and from Joseph Conrad's, "Heart of Darkness." http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96sep/congo/congo.htm
- Tierno Bokar
- Site for the play directed by Peter Brook adapted from Amadou
Hampate Ba's book, Vie et enseignement de
Tierno Bokar: le sage de Bandiagara. The U.S. premiere
was at Columbia University. "Tierno Bokar (1875-1939) was a Sufi sage,...
and a spiritual leader in his village in Mali.
His clan, exponents of repeating a Sufi prayer 12 times, was embroiled in a
debate with a rival clan that advocated repeating it 11 times, a debate that
devolved into a conflict
over power and leadership in the Tijani Sufi Order. Video clips and
transcripts of interviews. Site at Columlbia University, New York city. [KF] http://www.tiernobokar.columbia.edu
- Troup,
Robert Scott and Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton - Colonial forest
administration
- [London, New York, etc.] Oxford University Press, 1940. 476 pages. Online
edition: 524 page images. Full text of the book. Can search within
the book. Includes illustrations. Appendices include I. Forests & Water-Supply,
II. How forestry may assist towards the control of the tsetse flies,
by C.F.M. Swynnerton, " III. Legislative & Administrative Action
taken by Different Countries, IV. Colonial Mining Laws and Timber Rights,
V. Colonial Laws Dealing with Forestry. From the Core
Historical Literature of Agriculture at Cornell University, a project
to preserve brittle books. "Working with scholars in the field,...staff
identified the core historical literature of agriculture-those books and
journals that represent the most important publications in the agricultural
sciences between 1850 and 1950." [KF] http://chla.library.cornell.edu/
Troup book: http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2910980
- Twain,
Mark - King Leopold's Soliloquy
- Full text/photographs of Twain's work expressing his opposition to imperialism.
On Jim Zwick's web site, "Mark Twain's Anti-imperialist Writings:
a Guide to Online Resources." http://marktwain.miningco.com/library/texts/bl_kls01.htm
- UNESCO.
Africa Revisited
- In English and French. About the "richness, the diversity,
and the fragility" of Africa's cultural heritage. Includes German
colonial architecture in Togo and Cameroun, Swahili culture (Lamu,
Gede), missionary settlements in Southern Africa, West African
forts (Elmina, Goree, James Fort), Ethiopian Christianity,
etc.. Lists World Heritage sites in Africa. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage
Centre. [KF] http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/toc.htm
- UNESCO.
Memory of Africa
- UNESCO's presents its la
Mémoire virtuelle du Monde / Virtual Memory of the World program
for the preservation of archival and library holdings world-wide. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/africa/africa.htm
- Features:
- Cartes
Postales d'Afrique - Historical postcards from Cote d'Ivoire
and Benin. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/visite/cartpafr/fr/present1.html
- United Kingdom. National
Archives. Learning Curve
- The Archives' education section for schools includes -
"How
did the Abolition acts of 1807 and 1833 affect slavery?"
British
Empire. with a sections on "The Rise of the British Empire," "Living
in the British Empire," "End of the British Empire (Ghana)" including case
studies on Africa (documents, worksheets, quizes, photos).
-
"
How
did the British Government try to keep the support of the people of West
Africa during the Second World War?" Shows 1940s propaganda
leaflets, with suggested tasks for students. [KF] http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/
- United States.
Army. Center of Military History
- Has short bibliographies on
the Herero Uprising (Namibia 1904-1908 (Word doc) on British Colonial Africa and
World War II (Word doc), and on Congo (Kinshasa) 1960-1965 (Word doc).
- http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/default.htm
- United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division.
A Pocket guide to West Africa.
- Prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States
Army. Full text. 27 pages, in
Adobe PDF. (Washington, D.C. : War and Navy Departments : U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1943.) http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/cul/gir/ww2/pdf/w0033.pdf
Topics include: The Value of Good Will, French West Africa, British West
Africa, Portuguese Guinea, Liberia, How Africans Live, How to Make
Friends, Things to Do and Not to Do. From Southern
Methodist University. World War II: 1939-1945. Historic Government Publications
from World War II. [KF] http://digitallibrary.smu.edu/
- United States. Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. 19th Century
maps of Liberia
- "...includes twenty examples from the American Colonization
Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West
Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political
subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers.
This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of
Liberia: a map
prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi
Ashmun, a
map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous
chiefs, and a detailed
map dated 1869 by a man thought to be the black American explorer Benjamin
Anderson." Has a History
of Liberia Timeline. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/libhome.html
- Universite Cheikh Anta Diop. Département d'Histoire
- In French. Publishes the journals, Revue Sénégalaise d'Histoire et Les Cahiers Histoire et Civilisations. Mémoires ou thèses can be ordered; lists of memoires and theses are online. Has memorials to scholars, lists of former students. Based at Dakar, Senegal. http://tekrur-ucad.refer.sn or http://tekrur.refer.sn
Full text of documents - AOF : réalités et héritages; Population et Santé en Sénégambie; Hommage à Claude Meillassoux
Colloque AOF : esquisse d’une intégration africaine, juin 1995." (186 p. in PDF).
Histoire de la de la Sénégambie. 48 p. in PDF. By C. Becker et M. Diouf. Une bibliographie des travaux universitaires.
Regard critique sur les lectures africaines de l’esclavage et de la traite atlantique.
By Ibrahima Thioub. 22 p. in PDF.
Tableau des textes juridiques sur les armes à feu et leurs munitions : 1834 à 1958.
By Sokhna Sané. 15 p. in PDF.
- Université Laval. Groupe
d'étude et de recherche sur les sociétés africaines
- In French. "...un groupe de professeurs de la Faculté des
sciences sociales a créé en 1997 le Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur
les sociétés africaines (GERSA)." Hosts an exhibit of historical Mali postcards, part
of a cd-rom on West African postcards. http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/gersa/
- Universite Paris 7 - Laboratoire
Societes en Developpement dans l'Espace et dans le Temps (SEDET)
- Multi-disciplinary research unit on comparative studies of the Third
World. Information on members, research projects, list of theses (some
with abstracts), publications, conferences. Site maintained by P. Boilley
and I. Mande. [KF]
Paris 7: http://www.sedet.cicrp.jussieu.fr/sedet/Afrilab/Afrhome.htm
SEDET:http://www.sedet.jussieu.fr
L'Afrique à Paris
7 site covers activities at Université Paris 7 -
- courses, their series, Cahiers "Afrique
Noire"
- a 14 p. + list of "Maîtrises
et DEA" by country
- bibliographies (Les
Touaregs Kel Adagh by Pierre Boilley, 30 p. and L'enfermement
en Afrique, 2 p.)
- a searchable database on "L'inspection
des colonies en Afrique subsaharienne" (also in English)
- Documents
d'archives pour la redaction de l'histoire demographique de la Haute-Volta
coloniale by Issiaka Mande (with information on archival holdings
in Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, France, Burkina Faso)
- Research (Maîtrise-histoire,
DEA, Mémoire de fin d'études) from Universite Nationale du Benin, Universite
de Ouagadougou, Universite Nationale de Brazzaville, Universite d'Abidjan,
Universite de Conakry, Ecole Normale Superieure de Bamako, Universite de
Niamey, Universite de Dakar.
- graphics of two colonial
era postcards
- University of Botswana, History
Department
- Has Colonial Administration
Pages with extracts from full text documents, Boer
War pages, the history of "El Negro of Banyoles, " and
a History of Botswana by
Neil Parsons. http://www.thuto.org/ubh/index.html
- University
of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library - A Luta Continua: African
Liberation Movement Posters from the Collection of David H. Anthony
- Posters and background on the African anti-colonial struggle. Posters
mainly from the personal collection of Professor Anthony. [KF] http://library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/ALutaContinua.html
- University of London - Societies of southern Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries: collected seminar papers
- Full text reports online. Mainly historical, includes some literary studies. Covers South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/view/collections/ics-ssa.html
- University of Western Australia, European Languages & Studies - L'AFRIQUE ECRITE AU FEMININ
à l'époque coloniale
- In French. Web site on women writers, mainly Francophone, during the colonial era - Missionnaires, institutrices, coopérantes, expatriées, chargées de missions, écrivaines, voyageuses, aventurières ...
Summaries, in French, of books by the women writers. Based in Perth, Australia. http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/indexcolonialfr.html
- Urhobo Waado, Urhobo Historical Society -
History
- The Society formed in 1999 has press releases from the Urhobo National
Forum (New York) regarding the Western Niger Delta Crisis: 1997-1999 and
clashes between the Itsekiri and Ijaws, proverbs in pidgin (youth affairs), biographies, environment
issues, names
and naming practices, short
stories, British
treaties, a series of lectures honoring Mukoro
Mowoe by Professor Peter P. Ekeh, Professor Obaro Ikime, and others.
Has links to other Urhobo
organizations and to sites about writer, Ben
Okri. [KF] http://www.waado.org
- 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 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.
Documents from African
and U.K. archives include 1923 reports by Major Glasson on the
Mambila with a vocabulary list, a critique of C. K. Meek's Tribal
Studies by D. A. Percival, and Mambila stories (How people came
to die, The cunning rabbit, The beautiful girl, Why the Mambila don't
eat Grey Monkey). The site was established by Zeitlyn and Connell.
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/
- White,
Luise - "Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial
Africa"
- Full text of the book (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,
c2000. 352 p.) published in the series: Studies on the History of Society
and Culture, 37.
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft8r29p2ss;query=;brand=ucpress
Topics include:
"Bandages on your mouth": the experience of colonial medicine in East
and Central Africa -- "Why is petrol red?": the experience of skilled
and semi-skilled labor in East and Central Africa --
"A special danger": gender, property, and blood in Nairobi, 1919-1939
--
"Roast mutton captivity": labor, trade, and Catholic missions in colonial
Northern Rhodesia -- Blood, bugs, and archives: debates over sleeping-sickness
control in colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931-1939 --
Citizenship and censorship: politics, newspapers, and "a stupefier
of several women" in Kampala in the 1950s --
Class struggle and cannibalism: storytelling and history writing on the
copperbelts of colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo.
- Wise's
World Paper Money Collection
- A great collection of scanned images of African and other paper money.
Dates vary for each country, some from 1919 to the 1990s. See French West
African currency from the 1930s and 40s or Biafra's currency. Many have
portraits of African leaders. Ronald Wise, Jr. works at Indiana University
- Purdue University Indianapolis. http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/notedir/africa.html
- Yattara, Almamy Maliki and Bernard
Salvaing - Almamy : une jeunesse sur les rives du fleuve Niger
- Preface by Adame Ba Konari. (Imprint: Brinon-sur-Sauldre : Grandvaux,
2000. 443 p.) "Almamy Yattara, born in Mali in about 1922, tells the
story of his childhood and youth in Guimballa, a region to the south-west
of Timbuctoo. At the same time as he was pursuing his higher education
in Islamic studies with great masters, he learned about agriculture, stock
breeding, commerce, fishing, hunting, living in a world where the supernatural
and the everyday are inextricably linked." "He presents an unusual
light on the encounter between Islam and colonisation in a region
of Mali still hardly affected by modern and colonial influences.
Has extracts from the book, photos, reviews of the book.
http://salvaing.free.fr
Print Sources
Author: Hess, Robert L. and Dalvan M. Coger
Title: A bibliography of primary source for nineteenth-century tropical Africa as recorded by explorers, missionaries, traders, travelers, administrators, military men, adventurers, and others.
Imprint: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 1973, c1972.
Physical Description: xxv, 800 p. 29 cm.
Series: (Hoover bibliographical series ; 47)
Note: First published under title: Semper ex Africa... ISBN: 081792471X
Organization: Royal Commonwealth Society. Library.
Title: Subject catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society / by Evans Lewin; with a new introduction by Donald H. Simpson.
Edition: [1st ed. reprinted]
Imprint: London : Dawsons for the Royal Commonwealth Society,1967.
Volume.1. The British Empire generally and Africa.