- Museum for African Art
Features exhibitions, travel tours, and educational programs devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary African art.
www.africanart.org
- Historical Maps of Africa
Includes maps of pre-colonial Africa as well as individual colonies and expedition maps.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_africa.html
- African Imagery
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Brings together the work of the best photographers who focus on Africa, organized by theme and region.
www.africanimagery.com
- Exploring Africa
An exhibit of maps and travel narratives from Leo Africanus to Chinua Achebe.
www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa.html
- swikiri
Platform for collaboration, discussion, inspiration, and exposure of visual design, art, music, writing, and all forms of creative innovation from Africa.
www.swikiri.com
- Nubia: Its Glory and Its People
Selection of objects recovered over twenty years ago by the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition in the effort to rescue archaeology from the rising water behind the Aswan Dam.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/NUBX/NUBX_brochure.html
- nubianet
Archeological discoveries, exhibits, virtual tours, and educational resources about Nubia, an ethnic group in Africa.
www.nubianet.org
- Ancient African Empires
Categorized by art, biography, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.
www.historylink101.com/africa.htm
- Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Companion site to the PBS series that tells the true stories of lands filled with great civilizations long before any Europeans set foot there.
www.pbs.org/wonders
- AfricanLit.com
Offers a selection of essays analyzing well-known works of African literature.
www.africanlit.com
- Mora Gallery
Showcase of black African and Senegalese modern art, including paintings by Mor Faye and Bara Diokhane.
www.baradiokhane.com
- Conflicting Missions: Secret Cuban Documents on History of African Involvement
American and Cuban documents detailing events in Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, and Zaire in the 1960s and 1970s. Includes interview by Piero Gleijeses of Robert Hultsander, last CIA station chief in Luanda.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB67
- The Art of African Exploration
Collection of 19th-century European paintings, drawings, maps, and more that reveal Africa as seen by Western eyes. From the Smithsonian.
www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/artofafricanexploration
- Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan
Historical overview of Mali, Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland before the modern era.
www.xula.edu/~jrotondo/Kingdoms
- africancolours.com
Resource for contemporary African art and southern African artists.
www.africancolours.com
- Ancient Africa in the Virtual Classroom
Discover the Nok, the Phoenicians and Carthage, trade in Ancient Africa, Ghana, Sundiata, Mansa Musa, Timbuktu, and Zimbabwe.
www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
- Internet African History Sourcebook
Primary sources in African History from Ancient times to the modern period.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
- Art and Life in Africa
Features photographs from Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as pottery and political art from surrounding African nations. From the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa.
www.uiowa.edu/~africart
- H-Africa Discussion Network
Devoted to Africa's history, culture, and African studies.
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa
- Smithsonian Natural History Web: African Voices
Explore objects that attest to Africa's striking diversity and long history. Listen as Africans talk about their lives and cultures.
www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices
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