African Studies Subject Guide

Specialized Print Reference Sources

Africa 2004	REF 960.33 CUT
Africa: Africa World Press guide to educational resources from and about Africa	REF 016.96 AFR
Africa: An encyclopedia for students	REF 960.03 AFR
African countries and cultures: a concise illustrated dictionary	REF 960 AFR
African history on file	REF 960 AFR
African literature and its times: profiles of notable literary works and the historical events that inspired them	REF 809 WOR v.2
African writers	REF 896 AFR
Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience	REF 909.0496
Cultural Atlas of Africa	REF 960 CUL
CultureGrams (vol. 3)	REF 390 CUL v.3
Encyclopedia of Africa and south of the Sahara (vol. 1-4)	REF 967.003
Nations of Africa (vol.1-6)	REF 960 PEO
Peoples of the world: Africans south of the Sahara: the culture, geographical setting, and historical background of 34 African peoples	REF 960 MOS
Peoples of the world: the Middle East and North Africa	REF 956 MOS
South African Music: a century of traditions in transformation	REF 780.968 MUL
Worldmark Encyclopedia of cultures and daily life	REF 305.8003 WOR

Selected Online Resources

Africa Gateways
http://mail.danahall.org/~library/africagateways.html
Selected collection of websites about Africa.

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
A collection of web resources on the countries and regions of Africa and a variety of topics pertinent to them, including current events, human rights, foods, and music. Maintained by the curator of the African collection at Stanford University Libraries.

African Governments on the WWW
http://gksoft.com/govt/en/africa.html
Created by Gunnar Anzinger, a German information scientist, this is a subset of his Governments on the WWW site, a comprehensive collection of links to governmental institutions of all types (e.g., parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, political parties, and so on) on the web. It is organized by country.

AllAfrica
http://allafrica.com
This site posts daily news stories about Africa. Browse or search by country or region.

Central Intelligence Agency's World Fact Book
http://www.odcigov/cia/publications/factbook
Statistics and brief descriptions of countries. Good coverage of political and economic issues.

Library of Congress' Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Includes lengthy descriptions of many countries. Can be browsed by country or searched by topic, either across or within countries.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art :: Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
"The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. More than 5,000 works of art are linked to critical information on country of origin, cultural context, and time period." Equipped with world and regional maps, timelines, images of the artworks, and teachers resources, this website is a rich database that adds an important visual component to the historical exploration.

World Bank: Governance Matters 2007
http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi2007/home.htm
world Bank offers elaborately composed data on 212 countries that measure elements such as accountability, political stability and abesence of violence.