Africa
Go to a country page in Africa
Information about Africa
Africa is the second largest continent in the world,
located in the western side of the eastern hemisphere,
south of Europe and southwest of Asia
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* African Studies Center at Michigan State University – The African Studies Center at MSU is perhaps the most comprehensive in the United States with 130 faculty specialists who have worked in Africa. The Center encourages graduate and undergraduate instruction and research about African society, politics, economy, agriculture, history, arts, languages, communications, literature, health, and education. The Center also organizes many conferences, seminars, colloquia, and a weekly luncheon lecture series. It publishes journals and newsletters, offers information on study in Africa and on African colleges and universities, and offers programs on Africa for college and K-12 teachers, business and labor, the media, and the general pubic.
This is a Michigan State University resource.
* Africa News Online – Posts 300 stories daily from African publications plus special features – the largest electronic distributor of African news and information. Stories can be searched by country, region, or topic, or choose headlines for the day from the whole continent.
* African Media Program at Michigan State University – The African Media Program offers an on-line comprehensive reference guide to film, video, other audio visual materials concerning Africa (Sub-Saharan and North Africa).
This is a Michigan State University resource.
* Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan – The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS) functions as an academic department and as three area studies programs. It has its own undergraduate program, courses, and faculty. It is also a home for interdisciplinary area studies research.
This is a resource from the state of Michigan.
* Exploring Africa – Africa, the second largest continent in the world in both physical size and population, has for the most part been “under” taught, marginalized and often grossly misrepresented in our classrooms as well as in our media and popular cultural. Our site challenges the status quo by providing educators and students with content materials and learning activities which allow for a comprehensive study of the African continent and its people in their glorious diversity.
This is a Michigan State University resource.
* Africa Policy Information Center – The Africa Policy Information Center provides accessible information and analysis on Africa and U.S. and other foreign policy toward Africa in order to promote an advance economic, political and social justice and the full spectrum of human rights.
* africa.com – The africa.com website serves as a portal to resources from and about the entire continent, featuring a variety of channels that the user can choose from and news updates on the front page.
* An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet – This guide encompasses Internet sites, listserv addresses and any other e-resources of relevance to Africa or African studies. This site was created and is maintained by Peter Limb of the Michigan State University Africana Library.
* World-Wide Web Virtual Library: African Studies – Columbia University hosts this branch of the WWW Virtual Library. The Library’s resources are organized by region, organization, and topic. The site also includes an extensive list of African Studies centers from around the world.
* Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List – Annotated list of web resources on about thirty topics. In addition, annotated resources on individual countries are available at the African Studies home page of the University of Pennsylvania . By Ali B. Ali-Dinar, African Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
* Africa South of the Sahara – Extensive annotated list of resources on each African country and list of resources on the continent organized by more than 35 topics. By Karen Fung, Stanford University.
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