World History

"Selected Internet resources by country/region and topics. Offers, amongst others, links to a lot of primary sources (full text)." Produced by Karen Fung at Stanford University.

A digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Current offerings include sections on African cultural heritage sites and landscapes, African plants, and struggles for freedom in Southern Africa.

The internet library sub-Saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) is a portal that offers an integrated access to relevant scientific conventional and digital information resources on the sub-Saharan Africa region. Information scattered on private or institutional websites, databases or library catalogues are brought together in order to facilitate research.

The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource.

A digital library of over 3000 books, journals, and documents related to African policy issues; a directory of experts; plus, current news analysis and opinion articles.
(Centre for International Governance Innovation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, South Africa)

This website includes downloadable publications--newsletter, research reports, working papers, etc. "The Center was established in 1995 as a Population Policy Research Fellowship program of the Population Council, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2001, it became an autonomous institution with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."

This site offers free downloads of CDD publications (in PDF format) on the West African diaspora, Nigerian elections, as well as reports on gender, human rights, governance, security and development in Nigeria and West Africa; CDD seminar series; and the newsletter:
West Africa insight. (Online) -- Abuja: CDD, 2010-

Originally founded in 1987 at the University of the Witwatersrand, the CPS became an independent research institution in 1996. Research reports, policy briefs, policy--issues & actors, and the newsletter "Synopsis" are available in downloadable PDF format from this African policy think tank's web site.

(African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
"...a service that provides access to African research information produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere: details of Africa experts affiliated to Dutch and Belgian organizations; details of Dutch and Belgian development-related organizations, universities and research institutes; titles of published research on Africa in the Netherlands and elswhere; digital resources on Africa (full-text of publications, images and sound) in about 55 institutional repositories.

The site offers downloadable publications (in PDF) from the institute. "The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) was launched in April 2001 as a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to deliver independent, analytical, critical yet constructive research into social, political and economic issues that affect development in Namibia." (Windhoek, Namibia)

A full range of monogaphs, journals, and papers available online in PDF or HTML formats.
(Pretoria, South Africa)

The website is in French or in English consisting of an archive of documents from governments, local and international NGOs, scholars, and other individuals from the early 1990s to the present.
(Geneva, Switzerland)

"...covers 18 countries, which include the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as Cameroon, Chad, and Mauritania. It supports civil society communities and advocates to governments on issues of governance; law, justice and human rights; public health and development; information, communication technology, and media."
(Dakar, Senegal ; Abuja, Nigeria ; Monrovia, Liberia)

Downloadable reports in PDF format. "SAHARA is an alliance of partners established to conduct, support and use social sciences research to prevent further spread of HIV and mitigate the impact of its devastation on South Africa, the SADC region and sub-Saharan Africa."

"The first phase of the Archive involved the digitisation of technical reports on aid and development from Operation Lifeline Sudan (1989-2005). A library of contemporary and historical literature on environmental issues was added in 2006; a collection of reports on local peace processes in 2007. They will be followed by further ethnographic writing, grammars and dictionaries of Sudanese languages, and collections of documents in Arabic."

U.S. archives of history of U.S. activism and support for African independence from colonialism: 1950-1990s.

Images of 200 postcards from photographs taken in Central Africa and East Africa during 1924-1941 by Casimir Zagourski.

"...encourages interest in the scholarly study of all French colonizing activity and in the history of all French colonies."

Cultural, political, economic online resources.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.

Documents regarding slaving through Timbuktu.

Includes four databases which contain records of nearly 35,000 separate slaving voyages between 1514 and 1866. Voyages database: search for information on specific voyages or sets of voyages; Estimates database: use the interactive estimates page to analyze the full volume and multiple routes of the slave trade; Images database: a collection of scanned documents, maps, and illustrations; African Names database: identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.