General

• Syllabus: Ethnicity, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Africa [At H-Net]
• Ancestors in Africa: [At University of Kent]
  Selected readings and Mambila case material prepared by David Zeitlyn as part of the Experience Rich Anthropology Project
• Africa Speaks: West African University Students Write About Their Lives [At UIC]
  "The texts were written in 1990-92 at the University of Niamey, Niger Republic, in classes taught by Patricia Stoll. They provide unique and authentic insights into the lives of young Africans."
• Robert D. Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy February 1996, and Proportionalism August 1996, The Atlantic Monthly, [At The Atlantic]
  Addresses Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and he US response.
• Mr. Dowling's Virtual Classroom: Africa Today
  Well done. Aimed at a grade school readership.
• African Lives [At Washington Post]
  • Part I: The Dinka in Sudan
  • Part II: Young Urban Kenyans
  • Part III: Midwives in Ethiopia
  • Part IV: Fishermen of Senegal
  • Part V: AIDS in Kenya
  • Part VI: Families of Abidjan
  • Part VII: Child Brides in Ivory Coast

  • Part VIII: Death in Ghana

International Organizations

• WEB Documents from the Organization of African Unity [At Diana]

• All-African People's Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, Accra, December 5-13, 1958  [At this Site]

• United Nations: Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960  [At this Site]

• Charter of the Organisation of African Unity, May 25 1963  [At this Site]

Continuing Imperialism

• France: The "Loi-Cadre" of June 23, 1956  [At this Site]

• Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965  [At this Site]
  A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.

Angola

• Angola Constitution, 1992 [At Wuerzburg]

Algeria

• The Islamic Salvation Front National Provisional Executive Bureau:
  Communique No. 42, Algiers, November 14 1993 [At MS State]

Cameroons

• Mama for story
  Texts from David Zeitlyn and Ian Fowler on Cameroons.

Congo ]Brazzaville]

• Congo (Brazzaville) Constitution, 1992 [At Wuerzburg]

Congo [Zaire]

• U Thant: The Congo Problem, 1962  [At this Site]

• Zaire: UN Human Rights Report 1995 [At H-Net]

• Bill Berkeley: Zaire: An African Horror Story, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1993, [At The Atlantic]

• Jeffrey Tayler: Vessel of Last Resort, The Atlantic, Sept 1996, [At The Atlantic Magazine]
  Account of a trip up the Congo river.

Egypt

• For Modern Egypt see Islamic History Sourcebook

Eritrea

• Eritrea Constitution (draft), 1996 [At Wuerzburg]

Ethiopia

• WEB Richard Pankhurst: Collection of Essays [At Indiana]
  Covers all aspects of Ethiopian history from ancient times to the present.

• Map of Ethiopia [At Upenn]

• WEB Images from Ethiopia

• MEGA Ethiopia Page [At Indiana]
  A comprehensive listing of Ethiopia links, ancient and modern..

Gambia

• WEB Nijii [Momodou Camara's Homepage]

Ghana

• WEB Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Accra.
  An Orthodox Cathedral [At GOARCH]

Kenya

• WEB Kenyaweb: History of Kenya
  Secondary account from pre-history to the present.

• Jomo Kenyatta: The Kenya Africa Union is Not the Mau Mau, 1952  [At this Site]

• 2ND Bill Berkeley: An Encore for Chaos? Feb, 1996 [At theatlantic.com]
  "The embattled despot Daniel arap Moi,  of Kenya, has sought to preserve his regime by exploiting ethnic divisions. So why is  Kenya still intact?

Liberia

• Liberia: UN Report (excerpts) Security Council S/1996/47, 23 January 1996 Fifteenth Progress Report. [At H-Net]

Madagascar

• Madagascar Constitution, 1992 [At Wuerzburg]

• David Graeber: The Disastrous Ordeal of 1987: an historical ethnography about a village called Betafo in central Madagascar. [At H-Net].

Malawi

• H. Kamuzu Banda (former President of Malawi): Apology to People of Malawi, Jan 4th 1996 [At H-Net]

Mauritania

• Mauritania Constitution, 1992 [At Wuerzburg]

Morocco

• Morocco Constitution, 1992 [At Wuerzburg]

• WEB Menara
  A sort of Moroccan Yahoo!. Mostly in French.

Namibia

• 2ND Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: The Desert [At One World]

• 2ND Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: The Birth [At One World]

• Namibia Constitution, 1990 [At Wuerzburg]

Nigeria

• Biafra

• UN Fact-Finding Mission to Nigeria: Report to Secretary General, 1996 [At N-Net]

• Wole Soyinka: Towards a Sustainable Vision of Nigeria, 1996  [At N-Net]

•   BBC News: Special Report: Nigeria in Crisis

• The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies
  VIMS seeks to collate and connect the different research and researchers with an interest in the Mambila people of the Nigeria - Cameroon borderland and their neighbours; their languages and the area in which they live

Rwanda

• Rwanda Constitution, 1991 [At Wuerzburg]

• Violence and Unrest in Central Africa, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1996, [At The Atlantic]

• The Atlantic Report: Rwanda, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1964, [At The Atlantic]

• Stanley Meisler: Rwanda and Burundi, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1973, [At The Atlantic]

Somalia

• WEB The Mukhtar International Digital Magazine.
  "Dedicated to the revival of Somalia's heritage". With extended discussion of the Ancient and Modern history of Somalia.

South Africa

• Nelson Mandela : Speech on Release From Jail, 1990 [At this Site]

• Nelson Mandela : Inaugural Address, May 10, 1994 [At WSU]

• Black Power!, Newsweek, May 9, 1994 [At Virginia.edu]
  On effest of 1994 elections.

•   South African Constitutional Assembly Page [At Constitution.org, SA]

• South Africa Constitution, 1997 [At Wuerzburg]

• Project Capetown [At Virginia.edu]
  On integration of schools in South Africa.

• The Society of St Nicholas of Japan [At OCF]
  An Orthodox mission society based in South Africa, whose aim is to encourage Orthodox Christians to participate in the global mission of the Church.

•   H-SAfrica Homepage [At H-Net]
  With an Internet Links section.

•   Yahoo!: South Africa : Arts and Humanities : History

•   South African History Archive Trust (SAHA)
  Collections  "cover the period of the 1980s to the 1990s."

•   University of Witwatersrand: Department of Historial Papers

Tanzania

• Tanzania: The Arusha Declaration, 1967  [At this Site]

Zambia

• President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: African Development and Foreign Aid, Speech of March 18, 1966  [At this Site]

• Zambia Constitution, 1991 [At Wuerzburg]

Zimbabwe

• Rhodesia: Unilateral Declaration of Independence Documents, 1965  [At this Site]

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