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African Music |
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Follow this link to visit a wonderful website that has a
large collection of African music. there are other
resources that would arouse your interest. |
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Africa Files |
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This is a thorough website on news
happening on the continent, compiles articles from many
of the sites on this page. A search by region, issue,
and country is available as well |
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African
Traditional Religion |
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Learn More about the African tradition and religion. Do
you want to know more about traditions in African and
the Diaspora? This is a great site with lots of
important links. See for yourself. |
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Asili Journal |
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ASILI: The
Journal of Multicultural Heart speak
will accept for publication
poetry and creative commentary that locates itself
anywhere on the continuum of human...Read
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African Conflict Journal
(ACJ) |
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This is a clearinghouse of information,
events, peer reviews, online resources and discussion
concerning the topic of African conflict. ACJ is an
independent project that utilizes the latest online
technology for community building, resource sharing and
online information services. The ACJ seeks the
involvement of academics, professionals, students and
citizens |
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AIDSinAfrica.net |
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This site
features an online documentary on AIDS and highlights 5
Heroes working in Africa. The other components of the
site include an interactive map showing the levels of
HIV per country, animated charts that show HIV over
time, and comparisons between AIDS and other diseases in
Africa. The documentary will be available for free to
anyone with a high bandwidth internet connection. A low
bandwidth version (much lower quality) will also be
available. |
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AllAfrica.com |
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The site, a commercial one, continues to be an excellent
source of information. It provides access to the
Pan-African News Agency and to some forty African news
organizations; every day they post nearly 400 stories
from more than 60 African publications. Their home page
is organized helpfully for "today’s headlines" and by
region and topic. There is a good search feature. |
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Africa Newscast |
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This is a new website produced by a Ghanaian, R.Y.
Adu-Asare, from northern Virginia. The site runs a
series of commentaries, lists "top news" stories, and
provides some speech texts and official reports. It
fails to list all of its articles, which makes it more
difficult to use, but there is a simple and efficient
layout. |
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Africa Online |
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African
Online
provides a rich variety of information, from exchange
rates to weather, from music to health and education. It
focuses especially upon East Africa, the Ivory Coast,
Ghana and Zimbabwe. It provides varied access to
newspapers in those nations. Kenya's Daily Nation
is perhaps presented the best. |
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Aidspan |
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This site
monitors the grant proposals to the Global Fund to
fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They have
compiled information including the total amounts
approved in Round 1 (April 2002) and Round 2 (February
2003), for each country. For each approved proposal,
find summary details, the entire text of the original
proposal, and the Technical Review Panel's (TRP)
comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the
proposal. For each rejected proposal, find the Executive
Summary of the original proposal, and the TRP's
comments. This level of detail has never before been
available. It enables people who have not been
involved in the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM)
process to learn what activities have been proposed by
the CCM in their own and other countries. |
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BBC World Service |
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This site
provides some of the most reliable and up-to-date news
about Africa, certainly far superior to American news
services. This link leads directly to their morning
Network Africa and their afternoon
Focus on Africa,
which you can listen to. |
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Center for International
Development |
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This site
managed
at Harvard University has established an excellent
Global Trade Negotiations website. This is
particularly important, given US negotiations with the
Southern Africa Customs Union and the variety of
economic issues that US trade policy toward Africa
raises. At this site there is current trade news,
links to recent academic papers, and summaries on many
specific trade issues, including intellectual property
rights. |
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Channel Africa |
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This
is an all-Africa news and information broadcasting
service. They provide listening access to daily
news from Johannesburg, and to African music, though
when we've listened the congestion on the link
interrupts the music too often to be enjoyable.
They also maintain a daily African sports page to read. |
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East African |
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This is
an insightful weekly newspaper out of Nairobi, provides
excellent analyses of developments in the region. |
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Esperanto |
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Esperanto provides a good link to online newspapers in
Africa, listed by nation. Such links of course are
only reliable to the extent that they are regularly
updated, and results will be very mixed. |
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iAfrica |
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This site mainly deals with daily news headlines.
It has everything from a section on AIDS to sports and
business, and offers a diverse search option on African
news and issues. |
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International HIV/AIDS
Alliance |
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This
organization
has collated an HIV/AIDS NGO Support Toolkit, an
electronic library of resources from a wide range of
organizations. |
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Kaisernetwork.org |
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This site is from the Kaiser Family Foundation, has
daily reports on HIV/AIDS. It also includes a search
specific to this issue with
Daily Reports. |
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Library of African Cinema |
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This is of California Newsreel, is North America's
primary source of African videos – both feature films
and documentaries. These films, from throughout the
continent, are thematically focused on issues such as
post-colonial conflict, gender relations, human rights,
economic development and cultural life. The majority of
the films are made by African producers and directors. |
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Marek Enterprise |
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This site
groups
calls itself "a global network for productive dialogue
about Africa." Theirs is a business-oriented resource,
as is MBendi below, that provides daily news briefs from
Central Africa (through their NCN Central Africa Watch)
and daily African business news briefs through their
Metro Net Afrique. They also maintain pages on various
business and economics topics. |
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MBendi |
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This is a South-African business-oriented resource,
provides country profiles for all of Africa, details of
African stock exchanges, relatively up-to-date exchange
rates, and other such economic data. Their orientation
may differ from ours, but MBendi's data appears to be
reliable, and it may prove helpful for work on African
economic justice issues. |
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NEPAD |
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KAIROS a Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives has
compiled an excellent collection of African and other
NGO statements critiquing the New Partnership for
Africa's Development (NEPAD). |
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One World |
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This is a British-based network of global justice
organizations, provides a rich variety of Africa-related
documents and links to non-governmental organizations in
Africa. |
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USAfricaonline
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This is a rather eclectic but attractively-produced
website created by Chido Nwangwu. |
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Voice of America |
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This site
provides website access to listen to a number of their
Africa programs, notably to "Daybreak Africa" and
"Africa World Tonight." |
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WoYaa |
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This site
provides comprehensive directories of African sources
dealing with news, art, education, travel and much more. |
