Africa Project

General Africa Web Sites

The Africa Guide
http://www.africaguide.com/culture/index.htm

Ancient Kingdoms and Tribes

Dogon

Dogon Tribe - Nommo
http://www.crystalinks.com/dogon.html

Society: Dogon
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7840

Dogon Religion and Expressive Culture
http://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Dogon-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html


Fulani

Fulani People
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Fulani.html

African Tribes - Fulani People
http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/fulani.htm

YWAM Sahara - Fulani
http://www.gosahara.org/fulani.html


Kikuyu

African Tribes - Kikuyu Culture - Kenya
http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/kikuyu.htm

Kikuyu
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/kikuyu.html

Kikuyu introduction - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/tribes/kikuyu/index.htm

The Kikuyu People History
http://kukummi.org/Stories/kikuyuhistory.html


Massai

Africa on the Matrix: The Maasai
http://www.on-the-matrix.com/africa/masai_people.asp

Masai Culture - Introduction
http://www.kenya-advisor.com/masai-culture.html

The Maasai | Maasai Tribe and Culture
http://www.enhols.com/kenya/people/maasai

Kenya: Cultural Profile
http://nw08.american.edu/~zaharna/bonavia/Kenya%20Website/kenya_culture.htm


Ancient Kigndoms

Exploring Africa: Africa’s Kingdoms and Empires
http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/curriculum/m7a/activity3.php

Diffusion and other Problems in the History of African States
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinstate.html

The Story of Africa: West African Kingdoms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section4.shtml

Early African Empires and their Global Connections
http://www.globaled.org/nyworld/materials/african2.html

African Prehistory
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/africa/africa.html

Ancient African States
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/ancafristates.html

Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan
http://webusers.xula.edu/jrotondo/Kingdoms/welcome.html

Virtual Africa--History of Mali
http://www.nguni.com/culture/virtualafrica/mali/history.html

Civilizations in Africa: The Swahili Kingdoms
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM

The Kingdom of Aksum
http://archaeology.about.com/cs/africa/a/aksum.htm

Civilizations in Africa: The Forest Kingdoms
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAFRCA/FOREST.HTM

Map of Ancient Africa
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/afmap.htm

Apartheid

Apartheid in South Africa
http://www.rebirth.co.za/apartheid.htm

Apartheid in South Africa
http://home.snu.edu/~dwilliam/f97projects/apartheid/Document5.html

The History of Apartheid in South Africa
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html

Apartheid
http://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html

Art

African Art Museum: Major Collection of Tribal Masks, Statues, Sculptures and Bronzes
http://www.zyama.com

African Art
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/A/african.html

History of African Art
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa39

Michael C. Carlos Museum: Permanent Collection: Sub-Saharan African Art
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/COLLECTION/AFRICA

African Art | African Tribal Art | African Wildlife Art | African American Art
http://www.e-africanart.com

Pre-history Africa & the Badarian Culture
http://wysinger.homestead.com/badarians.html

Beadwork

An African Valentine: The Bead Code of the Zulus
http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/soccult/afrval.html

Zulu BeadWork
http://minotaur.marques.co.za/clients/zulu

Chasing Rainbows: African Kiffa Beads
http://www.lapidaryjournal.com/feature/june00str.cfm

The Glory of African Beadwork
http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/afrobead/afrobead.html

Blood Diamonds

Conflict Diamonds
http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html

Blood Diamonds | Conflict Diamonds
http://geology.com/articles/blood-diamonds.shtml

Conflict Diamonds
http://www.diamondfacts.org/conflict/index.html

Diamonds, Death and Destructio
http://blooddiamond.pacweb.org/deathanddestruction

Sierra Leone History
http://www.professionaljeweler.com/archives/hottopics/sierraleone1.html

Liberia History
http://www.professionaljeweler.com/archives/hottopics/liberia.html

Conflict Diamonds
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/wps/wp13.pdf

Bushmen

Tribes of Africa: The Namibia Bushmen (San)
http://www.gateway-africa.com/countries/namibia/bushmen.htm

African Tribes – Bushmen - San People
http://www.africaguide.com/culture/tribes/bushmen.htm

Dobe Ju/’hoansi and the Gebusi: A Comparative Analysis
http://www.lujogre.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=21

The San Bushmen (Basarwa: Kalahari Desert, Namibia and Botswana
http://goafrica.about.com/library/bl.san.htm

Art of Afica: Who are the Bushmen
http://www.theartofafrica.co.za/serv/bushmen.jsp

Kalahari Bushmen: Khoisan, Bushman and San Information
http://www.kalahari-san.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Explorers

David Livingstone

BBC - History - David Livingstone (1813 - 1873)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/livingstone_david.shtml

David Livingstone's Life
http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/biog/dl/bio.html

Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/livingstone.htm

Dr. David Livingstone - Exploring Africa and Searching for the Source of the Nile
http://crawfurd.dk/africa/livingstone.htm


Mungo Park

Mungo Park
http://www.nndb.com/people/574/000096286

Mungo Park
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/park_mungo.htm

Biography of the Scots Explorer: Mungo Park
http://africanhistory.about.com/cs/biography/p/bio_Park.htm


Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hstanley.htm

Henry Morton Stanley: Exploration and exploitation in Africa
http://crawfurd.dk/africa/stanley.htm

Stanley Biography
http://www.wayfarersbookshop.com/Biographies/Stanley_Biography/stanley_biography.html

Fabric

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/kente/top.htm

Great Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/zimbabwe.pdf

Great Zimbabwe
http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/zimbabwe/art/greatzim/gz1.html

Great Zimbabwe
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/greatzimbabwe.html

Great Zimbabwe (11th-15th century)
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/zimb/hd_zimb.htm

NOVA Online | Mystery of Great Zimbabwe
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/zimbabwe.html

Riddle of Great Zimbabwe
http://www.archaeology.org/9807/abstracts/africa.html

Great Zimbabwe
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Africa/GreatZimbabwe.html

The Story of Africa: Great Zimbabwe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/10chapter1.shtml

Great Zimbabwe: A History Almost Forgotten
http://www.manuampim.com/ZIMBABWE.html

Great Zimbabwe Photos
http://www.questconnect.org/africa_gr_zim.htm

Griots

West African Griot
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2004/279.html

Griots of West Africa
http://www.geocities.com/ritmi2002/griots_west_africa.htm

The Griots of Africa
portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=9626&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1052230817 - 18k

African Griot Images
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/griotimages.html

Masks

African Masks
http://www.artyfactory.com/africanmasks/index.htm

African Masks: History and Meaning
http://www.rebirth.co.za/African_mask_history_and_meaning.htm

African Masks and Tribal Art
http://www.africanvariety.com

African Masks: Pictures
http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/masks.htm

Poaching

Poaching Africa's Wildlife into Extinction
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/7171

Is African Wildlife Headed for Extinction?
http://environment.about.com/od/biodiversityconservation/a/african_wildlif.htm

In the Shadows of the Congo Basin Forest, Elephants Fall to the Illegal Ivory Trade
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1845160

Confronting Central Africa's Poaching Crisis
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=912962

WWF: Alarming Upsurge in Rhino Poaching in Parts of Africa
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/index.cfm?uNewsID=105400

Animal Poaching in Africa
http://ecologicalproblems.blogspot.com/2007/12/animal-poaching-in-africa.html

Alarming Upsurge in Rhino Poaching in Key African Countries
http://www.worldwildlife.org/news/displayPR.cfm?prID=396

BBC NEWS | Africa | Elephant Poaching 'rife in Central Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2353865.stm

Shaka Zulu

Shaka
http://blackhistorypages.net/pages/shaka.php

Shaka: Zulu Chieftain
http://www.historynet.com/shaka-zulu-chieftain.htm

South Africa - Shaka and the Rise of the Zulu State
http://countrystudies.us/south-africa/9.htm

Shaka Zulu and the Zulu Kingdom - Brief History of South Africa
http://www.southafrica-travel.net/history/eh_zulu.htm