Research Guides: African Studies: Web Portals

Information about Africa on the Web

African Studies Internet Resources (Columbia University)

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources (Stanford University)

Biblioteca Africana (Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes)

Additional Links of Interest

The West African Elections project is aimed at developing the capacity of the media in ICTs in order for them to use it as a tool for election coverage and the provision of elections information and knowledge for planned elections in Ghana, Cote d ‘lvoire, and Guinea from 2008 to 2009.

Slave Voyages
A valuable resource that includes, among other resources, background information, images, timelines, and three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (information on approximately 36,000 voyages): The Intra-American Slave Trade (around 10,000 voyages within the Americas); and African Names (personal details of over 90,000 Africans taken from captured slave ships or from African trading sites).