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Resources on Africa: Subject guides and miscellany
This page serves as a guide to the subject guides and other resources available on the
Africana Collection site. Such reference-like resources are categorized under the
general headings of Applied fields, Arts
& humanities, Social sciences, and Sciences
in Africa. It also includes a number of links below that either do not currently fit
within the structure of the site, or that I am holding for inclusion in pages yet to be
completed. We are
re-organizing the site--see updated pages at the key resources for African Studies page.
A separate page on women's issues is now available. As such pages are created, I generally place them on or
below one of the pages listed to the left. Check there, on the search
page, or on the table of contents page if you are looking for a
particular topic.
Business
Currency and exchange rates
- The interactive currency converter allows you to
select from a list of "from" and "to" currencies (including, for
example, from dollars to CFA). It returns a number of statistics such as the (both buy and
sell) maximum, minimum, and median exchange rates for a sample of prices for any date from
January 1, 1990 to the present.
- Olsen & Associates provides a currency
converter is very well designed, and fast enough that it
can be used by those who need such information regularly during the course
of a business day.
- Several such pages dedicated to
international paper money collecting have beautiful
scanned reproductions of (and a good deal of information on) various
African currencies, contemporary and historical. Burt
Burson's African Paper
Money page is very good, but also see Banknotes
of Africa
Ecological issues
- Try the EcoNewsAfrica page, which is
up-to-date and searchable. It contains an extensive archive of its self-titled newsletter.
- Academic Info is an annotated
directory of information sources on Africa
- Africa
bibliography is an electronic index to periodical literature. A section focuses on
women's issues
- The Africa Research Central
clearinghouse of primary sources is conceived as a "gateway to the archives,
libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources. The focus is
on repositories in Africa,
but there are also links to the web sites of institutions in both Europe and
North America."
- African Studies Quarterly (ASQ) is
an interdisciplinary, fully-refereed, indexed journal originating at the University of Florida's Center for African Studies
- Karen Fung's bibliography of African
Studies resources is one of the best and most useful lists of
African-related resources available on the Web
- An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
by Peter Limb (Michigan State University, Africana Library).
- The CIA maintains a site including
the World
Factbook, an encyclopedia-like country sketches and maps, and has a
sales catalog of maps and books available to the public
- Habari, a
French language search engine. Includes links to many European African Studies
Centers ("Habari vous propose une base indexée
de liens vers des sites sur le continent africain et les études africaines.")
- The Internet
Living Swahili Dictionary is an exciting endeavor of the Kamusi
Project
- The Library of Congress provides Country
Studies via the web, (formerly the Area Handbooks series).
- POLIS is a French
language academic journal (the Cameroonian Political Science Review),
and includes articles on African politics
- The Project for Information Access and
Connectivity contains information about a number of African
projects, including "Database of African Theses and Dissertations:
Report of a Feasibility Study"
- West Africa Review is
"an ejournal devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of importance to
the global African community and friends of Africa."
Military/Arms trade
- The Center for Defense Information includes
bibliographies and essays on the African arms trade in general, and specific information
on about ten African countries.
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