AAL is an open source, collaborative initiative between Boston University and the West African Research Center (WARC). Ajami traditions of Africa are centuries-old and are quite varied, consisting of satirical, polemical and protest poetry, as well as biographies, eulogies, genealogies, talismanic resources, therapeutic medical manuals, family journals, business transactions, historical records, speeches, texts on administrative and diplomatic matters (correspondence between Sultans and provincial rulers), Islamic jurisprudence, behavioral codes, grammar, and even visual arts. The primary goal of AAL is to ensure that these materials are no longer treated as insignificant vestiges, but rather as major sources of local African knowledge, without which a holistic and in-depth understanding of Islamized Africa will remain elusive.
Antiquarian maps of Africa and its islands, 1486 – ca. 1900.
Afriterra: The Cartographic Free Library
Covers over 500 years in 8 languages with over 3,000 creator
Aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items daily from over 110 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.
Established in 2016, Africanews represents a growing Africa covering politics, business, culture, sports, travel, science and technology stories.
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries, generate tables, charts and maps and easily save, embed and share them
Explore spatial data on Africa housed at Harvard University's Center for Geographic Analysis
Data on a variety of topics including finance, governance, environment, agriculture, and infrastructure from the African Development Bank Group
This exhibit was done in conjunction with the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. This site highlights four areas - Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA.
This site focuses on pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection and presents a review of African-American history and culture spanning almost one hundred years.
A searchable calendar of African-American history
Annotated guide to online resources on the history of Canada's Black community
Black Film Research Online (BFRO) is a resource guide for the study of Black film culture. We define Black film culture quite broadly to include the works of Black filmmakers from across the African Diaspora; the production, distribution, and exhibition of films by, for and about Blacks; issues of Black spectatorship and reception; and images of Black people in film from the invention of the medium in the late 19th century to the present.
This site from PBS is a companion to the film The Black Press and covers African American journalism. The film is available in the O'Neill Library Media Center (PN4882.5.B55 1998).
This database includes family photos, early African American educational Institutions, and personal collections highlighting the life of African Americans in the 19th century.
The women writers database includes the full-text of books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
"The Louverture Project (TLP) collects and promotes knowledge, analysis, and understanding of the Haitian revolution of 1791–1804."
The Nordiska Afrikainstitutet is a center for research, documentation and information on modern Africa in the Nordic region. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, the Institute is dedicated to providing timely, critical and alternative research and analysis of Africa in the Nordic countries and to strengthen the co-operation between African and Nordic researchers.
The African Activist Archive is preserving and making available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s. The website includes:
---growing online archive of historical materials - pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings
---personal remembrances and interviews with activists
---an international directory of collections deposited in libraries and archives
An initiative of the University of Georgia providing access to a variety of primary sources from the Civil Rights Movement including letters, pamphlets, oral histories, photographs and film. Search or browse by year, event, people or topic.
The selected images tell a story of struggle, community challenges, and hope for Black Miami in the 20th century. Through a combination of personal papers, books, professional photography, fliers and reports of civil rights activities this exhibition on Black Miami presents a sobering glimpse at what was and illustrates a path of civic involvement and pride.
This site contains secondary documents written about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as primary documents written during his life.
Website created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library; includes essays, images, maps, media, and bibliographies related to "these men, women and children from Sudan in the north to Mozambique in the south [who] Africanized the Indian Ocean world and helped shape the societies they entered and made their own."
Cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Items from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society: unique manuscripts and rare published materials, documents and letters by African Americans, the earliest antislavery pamphlet published in Massachusetts, petitions of African Americans requesting freedom, and much more.
Collections include: Frederick Douglas papers, Zora Neale Hurston plays, Pamphlets, Sheet music, Broadsides & Ephemera, Slave Narratives (audio interviews) and much more.
Discover and explore nearly a half million people records and 5 million data points. From archival fragments and spreadsheet entries, we see the lives of the enslaved in richer detail.
This site contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts and 500 black-and-white photographs of former
slaves.
This site from the National Archives and Records Administration provides historical analysis of the Proclamation, a transcription of the document and actual images.
