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Electronic publications for African Studies

AIDS in Africa

A CRS (Congressional Research Service) report from the Library of Congress originally published in 2004 and updated in 2006. PDF file.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/ib10050.pdf

ASTI Country Briefs- Sub-Saharan Africa

Full-text country briefs from Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators.

http://www.asti.cgiar.org/publications/ssa

African Development Bank (ADB)

Includes details on projects and publications and selected statistics (full-text).

http://www.afdb.org/

African Language Materials Archive (ALMA)

The ALMA site contains African language video recordings, documentary video, translation work, and bibliographies.

http://alma.matrix.msu.edu/

African Union

Information about the African Union, including full-text documentation, treaties and press releases.

http://www.africa-union.org/

African traditional religion

Variety of full-text articles on all aspects of African traditional religions. Also numerous links. Maintained by Chidi Isizoh.

http://afrikaworld.net/afrel/

Annotated Bibliography on the TRC in South Africa

The Library, Information and Documentation Centre (BIDOC) of the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) has systematically collected documentation from and on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa since 1994. This annotated bibliography contains over 1000 sources on the TRC and the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa. PDF file.

http://archive.niza.nl/docs/200406151407561625.pdf

CSAC Online Publications

Free full-text access to selected anthropological works mainly concentrating on Africa. Includes Phyllis Kaberry's "Women of the Grassfields", J.S. Eades' "The Yoruba today", Chilver and Kaberry's "History and customs of Ntem", archival sources on the Mambila, papers in honour of Chilver's contributions to Cameroon studies and other selected texts. Hosted by the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/online_pubs.html

Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Full-text working papers and reports from the Centre.

http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/

Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen

Postgraduate Centre for African Studies offering courses and undertaking research in a range of disciplines. Publishes a full text online series of Occasional Papers.

http://www.teol.ku.dk/CAS/

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa

Project aiming to make accessible, through digitisation important South African material that would otherwise be difficult to locate and use. This includes notably some 39 key anti-apartheid periodicals of the 1960-1990 period.

http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/

Facing the development challenge in Mozambqiue: an economywide perspective, by Finn Tarp et al

Economy-wide analysis of the best ways to meet Mozambique's development needs.

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/abstract/126/rr126.pdf

Folk-literature of the Galla [Oromo] of southern Abyssinia, by Enrico Cerulli

Key texts originally published in the Harvard African Studies series, Vol. III, Varia Africana III, eds. E.A. Hooton and Natica I. Bates (Cambridge, Mass: African Department of Harvard University's Peabody Museum, 1922)

http://www.samizdat.com/cerulli.html

Gender and HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Zimbabwe's national policies and programs on HIV/AIDS/STIs

Report published by the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)

http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions/2006-03-17-2175-Gender_and_HIV_AIDS_an_Analys.htm

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Links to food policy research information, including a collection of African food security data sets, information on IFPRI research and IFPRI publications.

http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/

Internet living Swahili dictionary

Part of the Kamusi Project in Yale University's program of African Languages.

http://www.kamusiproject.org/

Malawi: an atlas of social statistics, by Todd Benson et al.

Contains maps of the demographic characteristics, living conditions, educational and health status, and cultural and economic activities of the people of Malawi. Published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/cp/malawiatlas.htm

Refugees from Sudan

Publication of the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, part of the US Refugee Program. The Culture Profiles series provides short introductions to the cultural background of refugee populations.

http://www.cal.org/co/publications/cultures/sudan.html

SADC Trade Development Project

Publications and reports on trade reform in Southern Africa.

http://www.sadctrade.org/

The Somali Bantu: their history and culture, by Dan van Lehman and Omar Eno

Publication of the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, part of the US Refugee Program. The Culture Profiles series provides short introductions to the cultural background of refugee populations.

http://www.cal.org/co/bantu/index.html

UnisaETD: electronic theses and dissertations

http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=15350

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Information on aspects of African development, including gender issues with access to a number of full-text, on-line publications, such as the annual Economic Report on Africa, and links to a number of related initiatives and sites.

http://www.uneca.org/

University of California Press E-Books

Full-text, electronic versions of selected UC Press books in a range of subjects and areas.

http://www.escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/

Using Google for African Studies Research: A Guide to Effective Web Searching by Hans M. Zell

A companion to The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources

http://www.hanszell.co.uk/google/

Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Site contains downloadable working papers dating back to 2002.

http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/workingpapers/Arbeitspapiere.html

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