Africa: General Background Resources
- IBF Guide To Travel In Africa Country-by-country links for Africa can be found here.
- IBF Bibliography: Africa: Hundreds of books sorted by region and categorized by topic.
- Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA) Washington DC based organization with information on current events and policy initiative relating to Africa.
- Africa Guide: A complete and comprehensive guide with detailed information. Country-by-country links
- Africa Action In depth report and documents on current events and policy issues. Africa Action is merged from the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and Africa Policy Information Center (APIC)
- Africa Climate and Weather Analysis (NOAA)
- Africa History
- Africa Focus Periodic bulletins covering peace, health, economics and other current events in Africa.
- Africa Intelligence A leading site for information on Africa. Country-by-country links
- Africa Maps Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. The best we have found online.
- African Economic Outlook Economic data, information and research on Africa at your fingertips.
- Childhood in Africa: An Interdisciplinary Journal (CAJ) Online, peer reviewed academic journal.
- Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) (Africa) (compiled by U.S. Agency For International Development)
- Index On Africa Good source of current affairs information on a wide range of topics.
- Open Democracy: Africa From Angola to Somalia, Rwanda to Zimbabwe, open Democracy writers examine the new worlds of an old continent.
- Pan Africa Vision Coverage of news and events
- Univ. of Penn. African Studies Center Web site of the Africanist establishment.
- WoYaa Search sources of information on a wide range of topics. Plastered with pop-ups!
Africa: Art, Cultural, Health and Science Resources
- African Society for Quality in Healthcare ASQH works to provide services to guide health professionals in Africa.
- Africancolours.com
- Dandemutande: A Resource for Zimbabwean Music (includes links to all types of African music)
- H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Online Host a large number of email list. Topics on Africa include regional discussions, art, slavery, Swahili, Hausa, etc.
- Overview of Textiles In Africa (mostly handmade Africa cloth)
- Science in Africa Covers agronomy to zoology.
Resources For Pan-African Governance
Relevant organizations and useful websites
- Africa Action http://www.actionafrica.org/ [A venerable organization in the field seems to have disappeared. (09/13)]
- Africa Commission on Human and People’s Rights http://www.criminal-justice-careers.com/crime/african-commission-on-human-rights.html
- African Centre on Democracy and Human Rights Studies http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/ACOHRS.htm
- African Forum Network on Debt and Development http://www.afrodad.org/
- African Gender Institute http://www.humanities.uct.ac.za/hum/departments/agi
- Africa Human Rights Instruments http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/afrinst.htm
- African Population and Health Research Centre http://www.aphrc.org/
- Africa South of the Sahara: country and regional guide http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide3.html
- African Union http://www.au.int/en/
- Alliance for Conflict Transformation http://conflicttransformation.org/
- Association for Women’s Rights in Development http://www.awid.org/
- Bretton Woods Project http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/
- Centre for Democracy and Development http://www.cddwestafrica.org/
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court http://www.iccnow.org/
- Centre for Civil Society at the University of Natal http://ukzn.academia.edu/Departments/Centre_for_Civil_Society
- Development Policy Management Forum http://www.dpmf.org/
- Electoral quotas for women http://www.quotaproject.org/
- FEMNET http://www.femnet.or.ke/
- Focus on the Global South http://focusweb.org/
- Justice Africa http://justiceafrica.org/
- Mwengo http://www.mwengo.org/
- New Economics Foundation http://www.neweconomics.org/
- Parliamentarians for Nepad http://www.parlanepad.org/
- Pan African Congress Movement for Humanity http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=1968
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network https://sarpn.org/
- Third World Network Africa http://twnafrica.org/
- Women of Uganda Network http://www.wougnet.org/
- World Organisation Against Torture http://www.omct.org
- 50 years is enough network http://www.50years.org/
Useful Newsletters and Mailing Lists
- AF-AIDS ": A regional HIV/AIDS information network for Africa (in English and French)...Over 200 organizations working in or with African Nations in the response to the epidemic have already joined the forum." To join send e-mail to: af-aids @hivnet.ch (remove space) with the word 'join' in the subject line.
- AFRO-NETS: The AFRO-NETS mailing list has been set up to facilitate the exchange of information between the different networks active in Health Research for Development in the Eastern and Southern African Region. It is a forum for discussion that can support collaboration between the networks in the fields of capacity building, planning and conducting research, transformation of research recommendations into action, etc. The list also serves as a forum for announcing meetings, training courses and other events of interest to the networks. Subscribe by sending an email to afro-nets-join@healthnet.org
- Africa Focus Bulletin: The Bulletin will feature material from a range of Africa-focused organizations. It will be limited to an average of 2 to 3 issues a week and offer selected material relevant to promoting international policies that advance economic, political, and social justice and human rights in Africa. Contact africafocus @igc.org (remove space) to subscribe or unsubscribe. http://africafocus.org/
- Africa Trade Agenda: African Trade Agenda is produced by the Political Economy Unit, Third World Network-Africa. TWN-Africa is co-ordinator of the Africa Trade Network. For more info contact: TWN-Africa, Box 19452, Accra-North, GHANA. Tel, 233 21 511189/503669. Contact: contact @twnafrica.org (remove space). Internet: http://twnafrica.org/
- E-Africa: Journal of Governance and Innovation To subscribe, email your name, job title, organization and country to eAfrica-subscribe @ saiia.wits.ac.za (remove spaces). To unsubscribe, email to eafrica-unsubscribe@saiia.wits.ac.za
- Femnet Bulletin: The African Women's Economic and Policy Network (AWEPON) is a network founded on the principle that women have the fundamental right to shape economic policies that impinge on their lives. It has partners in several African countries and works with them to strengthen the capacity of women especially at the grass root and national levels to influence the shape of economic policy. Find out more information about AWEPON and other organizations by reading the Femnet bulletin. http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=20811
- Global Campaign for Education e-newsletter: The Global Campaign for Education is an independent coalition of NGOs and trade unions campaigning for the right to free, good quality education and immediate action on the Education for All goals. Their email bulletin is produced as an information resource for activists and practitioners. To subscribe, send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the subject line to: e-news @campaignforeducation.org (remove space), http://www.campaignforeducation.org/
- Independent Advocacy Project governance news Independent Advocacy Project (IAP), the Nigerian good governance group, promotes - through advocacy, coalition building, research, publications and information sharing - respect for good governance in Nigeria. IAP produces a monthly electronic journal and you can contact info @ind-advocacy-project.org (remove space).
- SADC Barometer: The SADC Barometer, a quarterly analysis by the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), focuses on key issues and trends affecting the Southern African Development Community (SADC). For more information or comment, please contact the SAIIA SADC researcher and SADC Barometer editor, Richard Meissner on +27 (0)11-339-2021, e-mail: SADCBarometer @saiia.wits.ac.za or meissnerr @saiia.wits.ac.za (remove space).
- Seatini Bulletin: Seatini focuses on trade issues. Website: https://seatiniuganda.org/
- Pula – A newsletter on women and ICT’s in Africa Pula is the newsletter of the Association for Progressive Communications Africa Women (APC-Africa-Women). Pula aims to promote and profile the work and activities of women's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives in Africa and to act as a communicative tool to link women to each other and to initiatives and opportunities. To subscribe or unsubscribe email Africa @apcwomen.org (remove space).
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