AFRICAN
STUDIES




African, Africana studies, Africa,
Afrocentric, African-American, Info,
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Black, Black biographies, pictures,
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language, culture, health, science,
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foreign interpretations, social,
economic development, politics,
history, culture, social, sociology,
anthropology, linguistics, education.




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AFROCENTRIC/AFROCENTRISM LINKS

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TIMBUKTU PROJECT

TIMBUKTU PROJECT LINKS

AFRICAN DIASPORA

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AFRICAN
STUDIES




African studies is the study of Africa,
and can encompass such fields as social
and economic development, politics,
history, culture, sociology, anthropology
or linguistics.

A specialist in African studies is referred
to as an Africanist.




Subfields include:

Linguistics
History
Egyptology
Ethiopia
Bantu (South Africa)
West Africa
Congo
Great Zimbabwe
Colonisation of Africa
African slave trade
Decolonisation of Africa
Military history
Archaeology
Philosophy
Literature
Politology
Human rights
Demographics
Urbanization
HIV/AIDS
Economy
Poverty
Development aid
Education
Ecology
Religion




African American studies,

a subfield of American studies is
sometimes combined with African
studies under the name of:


"Africana studies"

or

Black studies.



WIKIPEDIA
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_studies




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BLACK
STUDIES




In United States education,
Africana studies, Africology
or Black studies:


Is the study of the histories, politics
and cultures of peoples of African origin
both in Africa and in the African diaspora.

It is thus the sum of the fields of African
studies and African diaspora studies
(Afro-Latin American and African American
studies).

Africana Studies departments at many major
universities grew out of the Afrocentric
"Black Studies" departments formed in the
70s.

Rather than focusing on black topics in the
African diaspora (often exclusively African
American topics) these reformed departments
aimed to expand the field to encompass all
of the African diaspora.

They also sought to better align themselves
with other University departments finding
continuity and compromise between the radical
Afrocentricity of the past decades and the
multicultural scholarship found in many fields
today.



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AFROCENTRICITY
AFROCENTRISM




Afrocentricity,

Afrocentrism,

is a world view that
considers African peoples,
their cultures,
histories,
collective struggles,
needs,
aspirations,
to be central to the
interpretation and
utilization of data.


Afrocentrists:

commonly contend that approaching knowledge
from a Eurocentrist perspective, as well as
certain mainstream assumptions in the
application of information in the West, has
led to injustices and inadequacies in meeting
the needs of African peoples, meaning indigenous,
Black Africans and the peoples of the African
diaspora.



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AFROCENTRICITY
AFROCENTRIC
LINKS




AFRO STYLY.COM
http://www.afrostyly.com/english/

AMERICAN PARTISAN
http://www.american-partisan.com/

ANKH ONLINE
http://www.ankhonline.com/

ASANTE NET
http://www.asante.net/

The Association for Rational Thought
http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/

Building Bridges to Afrocentrism
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/

HISTORY PLACE
http://www.historyplace.com/

RETURN TO GLORY
http://www.returntoglory.org/



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BAMUM
SCRIPTS
ARCHIVES
PROJECT




Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the
Bamum Palace is engaged in a variety of
initiatives, including collecting and
photographing threatened documents,
translating and in some cases hand-copying
documents, creating a fully usable Bamum
computer font for the inventory of documents,
and creating a safe environment for the
preservation and storage of documents.



Bamum Scripts and Archives Project
http://bamumscript.org/



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TIMBUKTU
MANUSCRIPTS
PROJECT




Timbuktu Manuscripts Project:

is a cultural project which aims to preserve
around 700,000 scholarly Islamic manuscripts
in the city of Timbuktu, Mali.

Some of the manuscripts date back to the 13th
century and are currently held in 24 private
libraries in and around Timbuktu.

It also aims to make access to public and private
libraries around Timbuktu more widely available
and easier for those in Malian society and to
show that the conventional historical view of
Africa as a purely "oral continent" is not correct.


The project was begun in 2000
and is scheduled to end in 2007.



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TIMBUKTU
MANUSCRIPTS
PROJECT
LINKS




Timbuktu Educational Foundation
http://www.timbuktufoundation.org/


SOUTH AFRICA TIMBUKTU





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THE
AFRICAN
DIASPORA




The African diaspora was the the movement
of Africans and their descendants to places
throughout the world such as the Americas,
Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Much of the African diaspora is descended
from people who were enslaved and shipped
to the Americas during the Atlantic slave
trade, with the largest population living
in Brazil.



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AFRICAN
DIASPORA
LINKS




The African Diaspora Policy Centre (ADPC)
http://www.diaspora-centre.org/

African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/

The Blacks of East Bengal
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/bengal.html/

Columbia Universities
http://www.columbia.edu/

Museum of the African Diaspora
http://www.moadsf.org/

Pan-Africanism in South Asia
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/

STEWART SYNOPSIS
http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/

Teachers TV Black History Programmes
http://www.teachers.tv/



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AFRICAN
STUDIES
LINKS




AFRICANA JOURNAL
http://www.africanajournal.org/

Africana Online
http://www.h-net.org/

Africa Confidential
http://www.africa-confidential.com/

African History Resources
http://www.academicinfo.net/histafricahist.html/

African National Congress
http://www.anc.org.za/

African Studies Association
http://www.africanstudies.org/

African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/

African Studies Internet Resources
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/

African Studies Quarterly
http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/

Africa News.com
http://www.africanews.com/

Africa Online
http://www.africaonline.com/

Africa Online KENYA
http://www.africaonline.co.ke/

Africa Within
http://www.africawithin.com/

Black History
http://www.BlackAmericans.com/

CWAS
http://www.cwas.bham.ac.uk/

Channel Africa
http://www.channelafrica.org/

The International Journal of African Historical Studies
http://www.jstor.org/journals/

Mail & Guardian Online
http://www.mg.co.za/

Nordic Africa Institute
http://www.nai.uu.se/

The Norwegian Council for Africa
http://www.afrika.no/

The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London
http://www.soas.ac.uk/

South African Government Portal
http://www.gov.za/

University of South Africa UNISA
http://www.unisa.ac.za/

US Africaonline.com
http://www.usafricaonline.com/

WN Africa
http://www.wnafrica.com/



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