The archive at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies,
Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, opened in 1991,
has a collection of modern African popular music recordings and videos.
The collection includes c.400 East African records, a collection of 716
78rpm records of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service. Has a 16 page
report by Dr. Wolfgang Bender on the history
of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and a history of its 716 recordings from
Sierra Leone, Ghana, Zaire, Nigeria and other countries. Has links
to numerous other African music, musician,
and ethnomusicology sites and information on courses offered. KF
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/
Much information on Francophone Africa-related web sites and discussion
lists. Maintained by Thomas C. Spear, Associate Prof. of French, Lehman
College, City Univ. of New York. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/french/afrique.html
Covers "Geography & History; Ant Mosaics; Economic Importance
of Ants; Biodiversity and Niches; and, Taxonomy" with chapters on
Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. Discusses their role
in cocoa plant disease. Has bibliographies, maps, illustrations, tables.
By Brian Taylor, Visiting Academic, Department of Life Science, University
of Nottingham (UK). In association with Dr. Francis S. Gilbert. [KF] http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/ants/westafrica/antcover.htm
Citations from the 1990 volume only (includes 1989 citations)
of the Bibliografia
anual de historia de Portugal: da pre-historia a 1974. Published
by the Grupo de Historia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.
Has an African section covering
Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique. [KF] http://www1.ci.uc.pt/bahp/bahp.top.html
A discussion list and web site on the "musical culture of West Africa.
Emphasis is upon the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Côte
d'Ivoire." Site offers videos, books, CDs for sale, has past messages,
and a directory of teachers and master drummers. http://www.drums.org/djembefaq/index.htm
In English, French, Portuguese. ECOWAS created in 1975, promotes
"economic integration in 'all fields of economic
activity, particularly industry, transport, telecommunications, energy,
agriculture, natural resources, commerce, monetary and financial questions,
social and cultural matters ....." The 15 member countries
are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal,
Sierra Leone, Togo. Statistics & financial information. See also ECOWAS Parliament. http://www.ecowas.int/ and http://www.sec.ecowas.int/
Photos from West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Sahara Desert, Togo) and Tanzania (the Maasai, Mt. Kilimanjaro). Tips, advice for photographers. http://www.danheller.com/
In French. "L'IRD est un établissement public à caractère scientifique
et technologique, placé sous la tutelle des [French] ministres chargés
de la Recherche et de la Coopération. Depuis cinquante ans [formerly ORSTOM],
il conduit des recherches sur les milieux intertropicaux." Has offices
in Africa. Has a journal citation database, HORIZON, photo images in their
INDIGO database, a database
of the map library holdings (maps from the early 1900s), database of
mosquito viruses, a database of fish, the Observatoire
de la Pêche dans le Delta Intérieur du Niger (Mali). http://www.ird.fr/
A research institute covering the natural and social sciences, part of
the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar. Founded in 1936 as a West African
regional research institute. Lists its departments, a brief description
of its publications. [KF] http://www.refer.fr/sngal_ct/rec/ifan/
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/
Founded 1989 at the Univ. of Durham (UK). One of its most useful features
is a keyword
searchable News Database which retrieves articles from the BBC
Summary of World Broadcasts, West Africa, Keesings, and other sources.
One can also do keyword searches of messages posted to their email
discussion list, Int-Boundaries. Has "Summary of National Maritime
Claims" (Jan. 1996) which includes African countries, the tables of
contents for their Boundary & Security
Bulletin (1993-1996, V. 1-3) and links to related net resources.
[KF]
http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk
IRIN West Africa
A free reporting service, by e-mail, covering humanitarian issues in
West Africa. In French and English. From the United Nations, Integrated
Regional Information Network for West Africa (Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs). To subscribe, send a request with the following
information to: irin-wa@AfricaOnline.co.ci
- Full Name and position
- Agency and its originating country
- Current country of residence / duty station
Specify which list(s) you are interested in: irin-wa-weekly (IRIN-WA weekly and special feature reports) irin-wa-updates (IRIN-WA daily/weekly/special reports) irin-wa-extra (non-IRIN reports and press releases on
West Africa ie :
NGOs, UN, etc..)
Fonts designed for typing Arabic on a Macintosh; but they can also be
used to type Yoruba on a Mac. From the Univ. of Bergen
(Norway) Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/files/files.html
Subtitle: "How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease
are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet." Full-text
of the article from The Atlantic Monthly, February 1994. Uses
examples from West Africa (Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea) and other
countries. http://www.theatlantic.com/election/connection/foreign/anarcf.htm
Consultant on Africa, Human Rights, Economic Justice, Corporate Responsibility.
Mr. Knight worked for many years at the American Committee on Africa (ACOA).
The site has documents about the U.S. anti-apartheid campaign, the Western
Sahara, and the debt cancellation campaign for Africa. http://richardknight.homestead.com/
Kraaij sold his house, quit his job and is traveling thru Morocco, Mauritania,
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, and Mali, Dec. 1996-April 1997,
with a laptop and digital camera. Site is in Dutch and gives an account
with photos of his trip http://www.xs4all.nl/~adriekr/
Page of the California-based musician/dancer/teacher, director of the
Congolese dance company Fua Dia Congo. Includes Sacred
rituals of the
Ewe people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Photographs, audio clips, preview
of a forthcoming cd-rom. http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/index.html
Has most of the full-text of the Army Area Handbooks long used as basic
reference sources. Information on the history, society, economy, politics,
national security of each country. Covers Ghana, Ivory
Coast, Mauritania, Nigeria.
One can search across all countries or any combination of countries and
browse the table of contents for a specific country. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html#toc/
Journal of the Mande Studies Association (MANSA), a multidisplinary group
with interests in the Mande region of West Africa. Has the table of contents.
MANSA also publishes a print newsletter. http://uweb.txstate.edu/anthropology/mansa/
Sells country maps, city maps of Dakar, Johannesburg, Mogadishu, a Somali
clan map, etc. Has a free map club. Formerly Magellan Geographix. http://www.maps.com
Information on Libya, a BBC video about bombing of a Sudan school, account
by Louis Istvan Szondy, a British and Australian citizen, of torture and
detention in the Sudan, the Western
Sahara situation, plus a vareity of human rights sites (not annotated).
Based in London. http://www.mathaba.net/index1.htm
Former ACCT, is an inter-governmental organization for French-speaking
countries created in Niamey in 1970 by Leopold S. Senghor, Habib Bourguiba,
and Hamani Diori. Extensive site with news about Francophone African countries,
French - African relations. http://www.francophonie.org
Software program and 200 page book (history, cultural significance),
to play oware (wari), a game popular in West Africa. For adults and children
grade 4 and higher. Requires an IBM compatible computer. From Sapient Software
based in Bolinas, Calif.. http://www.svn.net/rkovach/oware/
Has transcripts of the TV broadcast stories from 1995-1996 on Liberia,
Nigeria. For those with sound cards has a RealAudio version as well. Has
a keyword search facility for the entire site which can retrieve, for example,
Warren Christopher's interview on Liberia.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/africa.html
The Saharan Studies Association is an international group of scholars
associated with the African Studies Assoc. of the U.S. The full text of
the Newsletters from Vol. 1, No. 1, 1993 to date are online, in
Adobe pdf. Topics include archaeology, Arabic manuscripts, slavery, Muslims
and colonial rule. The Newsletter editor is David Gutelius. Projects include manuscript
preservation in Mali and the African diaspora in North Africa
and the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. http://www.ssa.sri.com/
Has a discussion
list, in Portuguese, on Sao Tome e Principe (using a web form) at
- http://www.portugalnet.pt/encontro/s_tome_p/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
Also links to related information.
http://www.portugalnet.pt/encontro/s_tome_p/s_tome_p.html
Full text of the book, in English and French. 412 p. Maps, bibliographies. Edited by Nicolas Florquin and Eric G. Berman. "detailed information on more than 35 armed groups that have destabilized West Africa since 1998" "The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland." Also available from Reliefweb in English in (very large file!) PDF. http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/b_series1.html and http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-6Q3GDN?OpenDocument
Includes - Nigeria (oil producing states, Christian-Muslim conflict), northern Mali (Tuareg-Arab, Al-Qaeda influence), Ghana (gun manufacturing), Liberia, Guinea (refugees from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire), Mano River Union (child soldiers in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone), Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Senegal (Casamance), Sierra Leone, Togo.
In French. "a été créée par le Traité signé à Dakar
le 10 janvier 1994 par les Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement des sept
pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest ayant en commun l’usage
d’une monnaie commune, le F CFA." Members are Bénin,
Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sénégal,
Togo. Press releases, official statements, documents such as "Indice
Harmonisé des Prix à la Consommation du
mois d'avril 2004 )" and "Communiqué final de la réunion
des Ministres en charge de la Promotion de la Femme des États
membres..." Based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. [KF] http://www.uemoa.int/
Thomas, U.S. Legislative Information, is a great resource. Keyword
search access to the full text of the U.S. CONGRESSIONAL
RECORD (similar to parliamentary proceedings or debates)
for the 103rd, 104th, and the 105th Congresses and to Congressional legislation.
Also has links to the Senate and House sites such as the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. http://thomas.loc.gov/
Maps, an embassy directory, travel, language information, etc. for each
African country have been created by Julie Sisskind and are now maintained
by Ali Dinar. UPenn has a search
facility where one can input keywords to receive information found
on their very large web site.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/Country.html
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. The site was
established by Zeitlyn and Connell. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/
E-newsletter reporting on human rights, democracy and development news
and networking. Produced and emailed free of charged by the International
Center, Washington, D.C. and Liberia Institute of Journalism, Monrovia,
Liberia. This project is funded by a grant from the International Center
to Liberia Institute of Journalism. http://www.kabissa.org/lij
To subscribe or stop subscriptions, please place "subscribe or unscribe
West Africa Newsletter, in the subject heading and email to LIJ72@HOTMAIL.COM or LIJ@KABISSA.ORG
Directory information (address, phone, telex, cable, fax, email) for its
offices in Cote d'Ivoire and for its regional offices. Improves "rice
varieties and production methods among smallholder farm families...."
http://www.worldbank.org/html/cgiar/directory/WARDA.html
A bi-lingual union catalog of records for over 20,000 Arabic manuscripts
from West Africa. Find citations by authors, nicknames, titles, subjects.
Includes manuscripts from Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Northern Nigeria and
from collections in Paris and Northwestern Univ. The documents represent
"the literary activity of Muslim literati in the Sahel region during
the approximately 150 years prior to colonial conquest." Charles C.
Stewart, Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Champaign
is General Editor. [KF] http://www.arabic.uiuc.edu/
In English and French. Launched in 1993. Promotes cross-border trade
/ investment. Comprised of over 300 business people from Benin, Burkina
Faso, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire,Gambia, Ghana,Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,
Nigeria, Senegal, Togo. Has a directory of member businesses, an e-mail
directory, business opportunities. Based in Accra, Ghana. WAEN is part
of the African Enterprise Network. [KF] http://www.waen.net
"a sub-regional training institute whose principal objective is to build capacity for dept, macroeconomic and financial management in its constituent countries." Established by the Central Banks of The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Based in Lagos, Nigeria. [KF] http://www.waifem.org/
Founded in 1989, to enhance collaborative research and scholarly exchange
between U.S. and West African scholars, educators, and institutions. WARA’s
US offices are at the African Studies Center of Boston University. Its overseas
headquarters, the West African Research
Center (WARC) opened in 1993 in Dakar, Senegal. WARC offers a range
of services to researchers and scholars visiting from the US and from the
subregion, as well as to local scholars, and provides a rich venue for scholarly
exchange. http://www.bu.edu/africa/wara/
ARSO is an NGO in Switzerland concerned with the decolonization of Western
Sahara (former Spanish Sahara), the UN referendum, human rights violations,
Saharawi refugees in Algeria, etc. Contact: E. Martinoli - arso@hei.unige.ch http://www.arso.org/index.htm
News, new publications information provided by (A R S O) Association
de soutien a un referendum libre et regulier au Sahara Occidental.
http://www.egroups.com/list/western-sahara-news/
Reports, analysis, major battles, detailed chronology, human
rights issues from Amnesty and other reports, recent journal articles,
news, bibliography, landmines, related sites. Based in Baltimore, Maryland.
[KF] http://www.wsahara.net/
Established in 1985, provides books, CDs, videos and audio cassettes
on drum and dance music from the Ewe (Ghana and Togo), the Damba festival
music of northern Ghana, Mandiani drum and dance from Senegal, xylophone
music from Ghana, etc. http://www.ethnomusicology.com/
Full text article from In Focus Policy Briefs, Volume 3, Number
42, December 1998 published by Foreign
Policy in Focus, Albuquerque, NM. Stephen Zunes is an Assistant Professor
of Politics at the University of San Francisco. [KF] http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol3/v3n42mor.html
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