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African Highlights
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H-Net Book Reviews on Africa
Chris Bolsmann reviews Edward Webster and Karl von Holdt, eds - Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition
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Chris Bolsmann reviews Edward Webster and Karl von Holdt, eds - Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition
War, Law, and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion
Chronicling a Half Century of Shared Struggle
Gender Politics in Zimbabwean Literature
Urban Cults and Charisma in a West African Kingdom
Presence and Prominence: Foregrounding African Ceramics
Sacred Arts and Negotiation in Candombl
Grappling with Neoliberal Reforms after Apartheid
Delphine Dabrowski-Sangodeyi reviews Richard Tomlinson, Robert Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner and Xolela Mangcu, eds - Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Post-Apartheid City
Confronting for Comparing: Questions of Identity and Territory throughthe Double Prism of Indian and South African Realities
An Overview of AIDS in South Africa
Filmmaking in North and Francophone sub-Saharan Africa
A Blackwell Collection on Gender History
Todd's R and R
Joel E. Tishken reviews Elizabeth Isichei - The Religious Traditions of Africa: A History
Robert Ross reviews Linda Waldman - The Griqua Conundrum: Political and Socio-Cultural Identity in the Northern Cape, South Africa
Africa in International Relations
Not Seeing the Evil in Southern Africa
Understanding Cultures of Fatherhood in South Africa
Teresa Barnes reviews Lynette A. Jackson - Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
Solidarity Forever?
Owen J. M. Kalinga reviews Colin Baker - Chipembere: The Missing Years
Overlapping and Crisscrossing: An Assessment of Ubangi Art
Post-apartheid Urban Dynamics in Namibia
The Politics of Sorcery on the Mueda Plateau of Mozambique
Under Too Black a Sky
Dawne Y. Curry reviews Shireen Hassim - Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority
Updates to the New Edition
Genius on the African Continent
Sound Mind, Sounding Bodies: A Review of Steven Mithen
Visiting Africa via an African University
Anthropological History: Innovative Method Defeats History's ExplanatoryPower
A Return to Folklore
The Evolution of Shari'a Law in Northern Nigeria
Talensi
Broad Survey
Re-Evaluating Art and Aesthetic Data in Anthropological Study: AHistorical Retrospection
Trusting One Another: Aid and Africa
Algeria and the Ambiguities of Value Judgments in History
Identification and Dating of Crosses and Alleged Brancaleon Works
Smiths: Makers of Tuareg Identity
Trusting One Another: Aid and Africa
Threads of Time in West Africa
Pacific Voices Seen and Heard
Re-establishing the Ritual Milieu of African Artifacts: Focus on theBaltimore Museum of Arts
Makerere Students: Challenging Authority?
Youth: An Imagined Social Construct
Is Paris Burning?
Bleached Bones as White Skeletons in the Closet
A "Rooted" Reading of Race in the History of Art
Image Worlds: Central Africa
Art in Senegal, Beyond the Shadow of Modernism
Ludovic Coupaye reviews Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin and Sydel Silverman - One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology
Malyn Newitt reviews Philip Havik - Silences and Soundbytes: The Gendered Dynamics of Trade and Brokerage in the Pre-colonial Guinea Bissau Region
Making Men in Africa
Mark L. Lilleleht reviews Susan Altman and Susan Lechner - Ancient Africa
A Social Scientist's Reading of a Book on Sao Tome and Principe's literature
A Teenager's Struggle
The Press in Ghana's Bourgeoning Democracy
Inside the Empire's Closet: Skeletons of War Crime, Mayhem and Murder
Two Pot Boilers as Remakes of _Beau-geste_
Two Pot Boilers as Remakes of _Beau-geste_
The Last Empire
Scouting in Colonial Africa
African History: Sources, Methods, and Approaches
Coming Home: Displacement and Return in South-East Africa
Maria Ins Varela-Silva reviews Mosh Liba, ed - Jewish Child Slaves in So Tom
Renamo: From Armed Movement to Political Party
Rachel Wrangham reviews Mario J. Azevedo - Tragedy and Triumph: Mozambique Refugees in Southern Africa 1977-2001
Where's Jamela?
The Perfect Princesses
A City of Scholars
Jennifer Houser Wegner reviews Jil Fine - Writing in Ancient Egypt
The Problematic State in Angola and Mozambique
The Best Things in Life
An Ethiopian Girl's Adventures
A Light Look at the Oral Traditions of East African Asians
Michael O. Afolyan reviews Veronique Tadjo - Talking Drum: A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara
There Once Was a King....
There Once Was a King....
There Once Was a King....
Azeb Tadesse reviews Jane Kurtz - Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Children's Books on Kenya: Pitfalls and Truths
Ancient Mali Goes to School in Virginia
Gloria Creed-Dikeogu reviews Julius Lester - Shining
Wendy Fall reviews Sylvianne A. Diouf - Bintou's Braids
Philip J. Havik reviews Peter Mark - "Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Pre-Colonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Alcohol and Slaves
Stephen Belcher reviews Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi - The African Epic Controversy: Historical, Philosophical, and Aesthetic Perspectives on Epic Poetry and Performances
Decentralization for Whom?
Capitalism and the Mozambican State
Narratives and Songs from Angola at War
Narratives and Songs from Angola at War
Stephen Belcher reviews Harold Scheub - A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
Stephen Belcher reviews Buchi Offodile - The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folktales
Some Blessed Hope?
Summarizing Twenty-Five Years of Struggle
Cartoons, Market Literature and Genre Fiction: An Overview of African Popular Literature
A New Lawino?
Royal Drums for Ghana's Arts
J. Roger Kurtz reviews Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe, eds - The Companion to African Literatures
Stephen Belcher reviews Ernest N. Emenyonu, ed - Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature
Exile and Postcoloniality in African Literatures
Exile and Postcoloniality in African Literatures
Performing South Africa
Es'kia Mphahlele
Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay reviews Odile Cazenave - Rebellious Women: The New Generation of Female African Novelists
Poetry from South Africa via Manchester
Poetry from South Africa via Manchester
Lisa McNee reviews Susan Stringer - The Senegalese Novel By Women: Through Their Own Eyes
Dayna Oscherwitz reviews Helena Woodard - African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason
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AllAfrica News: Latest
AllAfrica News: Latest
All Africa, All the Time.
Nigeria: Yar'Adua Warns On Future of Oil
Sudan: Violence on Outskirts of Capital Concerns UN Chief
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Sets Terms for Run-Off
Kenya: Thousands Welcome Prime Minister in Kisumu
Zimbabwe: Police Intensify Crackdown On Dissent
Zimbabwe: Ex-Minister Says Country Under Military Rule
Ghana: Soil Power
South Africa: Mbeki's Letter to Justice Minister Made Public
Uganda: Superstar Akon Rocks Kampala
Somalia: Interior Minister Amushed, Four Soldiers Killed
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Returning Home to Contest Runoff
Kenya: Cabinet Pledges to Put Aside Political Rivalry
Africa: Challenges Ahead Despite 'Very Good Progress', Says UN Official
Somalia: Ethiopia Troops Return Warlord to Power
Nigeria: Police Chief Warns Of Al-Qaeda Bomb Plot
Chad: Govt Arrests Four Peacekeepers
Zimbabwe: Doctors Report Escalation of Violence
Sudan: UN, AU Envoys Alarmed By Darfur Violence
Zimbabwe: President Meets Mbeki
Kenya: Refugees Move Nearer Home
Rwanda: Seizure of Kabuga's Asset Good, But Insufficient
Rwanda: Former Belgian Envoy Concludes Tribunal Testimony
Tanzania: Catholic Church Warns Against Ignoring Pemba
Algeria: Government Bans Issue of French Weekly for Publishing Article On Kabylie Region
Zimbabwe: Electoral Court to Complete Cases Within Six Months
Uganda: Nort, Karamoja Region in Food Crisis
Uganda: Akon Makes Good On Promise
Rwanda: Fugitive Kabuga Still Makes Merry
Kenya: Coalition Government Vows to Hold Together
Zimbabwe: Oppostion Dumps Mbeki As Mediator
AFRICAN COLLECTION @ PENN
Overview | Collection Development Policy | Finding Africa in the Penn Library
DATABASES & ARTICLE INDEXES
African Studies Centre (Leiden) catalogue | Bullwinkle | DATAD (African theses index) | International Bibliography of the Social Sciences | Anthropology PLUS | Historical Abstracts | Index Islamicus | African Index Medicus | More Databases ...
E-JOURNALS & NEWS
E-Journal Collections: eSA Publications: Social Sciences & Humanities Collection | eSA Publications: Law Collection | JSTOR African Studies e-journals (fulltext backfiles)
E-Journals: African Studies Review | History in Africa | Journal of African History | Journal of Modern African Studies | African Affairs | Journal of African Economies | Africa Today | African Studies | Research in African Literatures | CODESRIA Bulletin | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review | Journal of African Cultural Studies | More E-journals ...
Current News: Africa Confidential | Africa Research Bulletin (Political, Social Cultural) | Africa Research Bulletin (Economic, Financial, Technical) | allAfrica.com | Pambazuka News | News Services from around Africa (UN ECA) | NewspaperDirect (latest 3 weeks of papers from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe) | More News ...
E-BOOKS
E-Reference Works: African Studies Companion | Encyclopedia of Islam | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online | Oxford Islamic Studies Online
E-Book Collections: ACLS History E-Books | eHRAF Collection of Ethnography | African Language Materials Archive | Onitsha Market Literature
Study Abroad in Africa (special issue, African Issues v.28, n.1/2, 2000)
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS & PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL
Microform collections | CAMP microforms at CRL
Colonial-era government documents: Empire Online | Blue Books for Colonial British Africa
IGOs, Government Documents, & Grey Literature: Kwetu.net | Great Lakes Region Dox Network | South Africa: the Making of U.S. Policy 1962-1989 (Digital National Security Archive) | More on IGOs ...
Historic News Sources: FBIS Daily Reports 1974-1996
Censuses and statistics
MATERIALS IN OTHER FORMATS
Videos on Africa and Africans | Videos on Africans abroad | Videos on African health topics | Videos on foreign aid and development assistance in Africa | Reel Voices (videos on Africans in Philadelphia) | VCat
Images of Africa and Africans:  Penn Library Online Image Collections | Bailey's African History Archives | More image collections ...
SELECTED RESEARCH GUIDES
20th Century African History and Politics | Health and Society in Africa | Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa Business | Indian Ocean | Fage on sources for precolonial western Africa | Raw, Medium, Well Done (edited pre-1885 European sources) | Travel and Exploration Narratives and Guide Books | China in Africa (ASC Leiden web dossier)
PENNSYLVANIA AFRICAN STUDIES CONSORTIUM LIBRARIES
Overview | Bryn Mawr College Library | Haverford College Library | Swarthmore College Library | TRIPOD
AFRICANA LIBRARIANS COUNCIL
ALC web site (hosted by University of Pennsylvania Libraries)