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Africa South of the Sahara

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html

This is a collection of sites pertaining to many topics and the countries and regions of Africa. Some topics included are Current Events/News (including African newspapers), Art, Religion, History, Music, Maps, Film, Culture, Sports, Libraries and Archives, Journals and Journal Indexes, Weather, Travel, and Women. Along with individual countries, the regions featured are Central, East, Southern and West Africa as well as the Indian Ocean Islands and the Horn of Africa.

Author: Karen Fung (fung@hoover.stanford.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Regional & Country Information--Africa

Keywords: Human Rights; Culture; Maps; Film; Politics

African-American Mosaic

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Resource guide to the Library of Congress's African-American Collection. "Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in theWestern hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound."

Author: Library of Congress, Irene Burnham, Gene Roberts (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--African/African-American

Keywords: resource guide

Africana.com - The Digital Bridge

http://www.africana.com/

Site includes content from Microsoft's Encarta Africana, African history, heritage and culture, educational lesson plans, chat rooms, email service, art and world news. Editors are Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the editors of Encarta Africana. The intent is "to present accurate, interesting, entertaining, and socially constructive information and commentary reflecting the diverse concerns of people ofAfrican descent" and to "promoting technological literacy and work-readiness for people of African descent."

Author: Harry M. Lasker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Anthony Appiah (info@koret.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--African/African-American

Ambush in Mogadishu

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/

'"Ambush in Mogadishu" tells the story of the most violent combat firefight since Vietnam. On October 3, 1993 elite units of the US Army's Rangers and Delta Force were ambushed by Somali men, women and children armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The Rangers were pinned down in the most dangerous part of Mogadishu, Somalia and taking casualties. What had started out as an operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid--turned into a tragic firefight that lasted seventeen hours, left eighteen Americans dead, eighty four wounded and continues to haunt the US military and American foreign policy. 'This is the companion website to the PBS Frontline documentary of the same name. It includes a full account of the battle in Mogadishu, incuding interviews, a chronology, and complete background information.

Author: Frontline/WGBH

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--Wars

Keywords: Somalia; Mohammed Farah Aidid

The American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition 1909-1915

http://diglib1.amnh.org/index2.html

Materials relating to the 1909-1915 expedition of Herbert Lang and James Chapin to the Belgian Congo, including maps, photographs, watercolors and music.

Author: American Museum of Natural History (webmaster@amnh.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Ancient Egypt: the Mythology

http://www.EgyptianMyths.com/

"Ancient Egypt: the Mythology is a web site dedicated to supplying information about the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt." The site also provides information on the land and culture of ancient Egypt, a chronology of its history, FAQs section, links, as well as detailed information on Egypt's deities.

Author: April Arnold (Netjert@ixpres.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Arts & Humanities--Religion & Theology

Social Sciences--Anthropology

Keywords: religion; mythology; deity; deities

Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB)

http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb.html

If you are interested in any works published about ancient Egypt, this site is perfect. You can browse books and articles in general or by year of publication. Within the year, you can browse among 10 general topics. The site not only provides bibliographic information about the article or book, but it also provides an abstract and links to the journal which published the article, when available.

Author: Willem Hovestreydt (whovestr@pobox.leidenuniv.nl)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Social Sciences--Archaeology

Keywords: Egyptology

Art and Life in Africa Online

http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html

This site contains photographs and descriptions of African art objects. It is a selected chapter of the site owner's CD-ROM, showing the African art objects that are presentand used during the different phases of an African's life, from birth to death. A bonus is that the photographic images rotate so you can see the pieces from all angles! Plus, this is easy to navigate!! There is also information about African countries and cultures.

Author: University of Iowa - Obermann Center for Advanced Studies (africart@uiowa.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Regional & Country Information--Africa

Keywords: African Art; Sculpture; Museum; Art Objects

Black History Pages (BHP)

http://5x5media.com/bhp/

A collection of historical reports, bibliographies, and links about the history of black people from both Africa and the Americas.

Author: Emru Townsend

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--African/African-American

Keywords: African; American; Black

Internet African History Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

This site covers African history from human origins until modern times. It links to both pages within and outside of the site. Some sections of the site are organized by time and others by country or subject. This can be a little confusing, but the list of contents near the top of the page is helpful.

Author: Paul Halsall

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Social Sciences--Anthropology

Life in Ancient Egypt

http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/

Carnegie Museum of Natural History exhibition on ancient Egypt. Pick from several categories including Daily Life, Gods and Religion, and Funerary Customs to tour the virtual gallery of artifacts, maps, and general information. You can also select a "guided tour" option to browse the collection.

Author: Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Social Sciences--Archaeology

Nubia

http://www.sis.gov.eg/nubia/html/nubia00.htm

This site provided by the Egyptian State Information Service is an overview of the Nubian people and their land. It provides information on its history, geography and culture as well as various economic information on Nubia.

Author: Egypt State Information Service (feedback@sis.gov.eg)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Papyrus Gift of the Nile

http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/cmes/out/papyrus/papyrus.html

For more than 1600 years the Egyptian Nile delta was to the papyrus scroll as Silicon Valley is to the computer disk. But the Romans developed their own competing format: rag, and later, wood-pulp parchment. By 1100 CE Egyptian papyrus agribusiness had gone the way of the lead typesetters' union. Then in 1969, papyrus made a daring comeback. Four large Nile plantations now supply a specialty art market. This University of Texas site shows the production process, from seedling to scroll.

Author: Photos by Thomas Hartwell and Presentation by Esther Raizen (er@uts.cc.utexas.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Reference--Biographies--Scientists & Inventors

Keywords: papyrus

South Africa: Can a Country Overcome its History?

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/southafrica/

"In this exhibit, you will learn about the history and events that have shaped South Africa's politics, culture, and people. Along the way, you will encounter five interactive timeline puzzles." This site touches on many topics, including apartheid and human rights. Additional sources of information are also provided.

Author: Annenberg/CPB Project (exhibits@learner.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Regional & Country Information--Africa

Keywords: South Africa; apartheid; human rights

The Triumph of Evil

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/

This is the companion website to the PBS Frontline documentary of the same name that discusses the West's reaction to the 1994 crisis in Rwanda. It includes interviews with U.S. and United Nations officials, a chronology of the events under discussion, readings about the Rwandan crisis, and material for educators.

Author: PBS Frontline & WGBH

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Keywords: Rwanda; Genocide

Who Was Who Among the Royal Mummies

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/WENTE/NN_Win95/NN_Win95.html

If you are trying to find out who the royal mummies were, this site is great. You can learn about them and see x-rays of their skulls. Click on each thumbnail image for a larger one. This site is pretty technical but there is a lot of useful information.

Author: Edward F. Wente

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Africa

Social Sciences--Archaeology

Keywords: Egyptology

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