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African Studies

• African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
The primary mission of the African-American and African Studies Department is to stimulate teaching and research about the Black experience in the U.S., Africa and throughout the African Diaspora, and to encourage students and others to assess various strategies for advancing human progress through the examination of the worldwide struggle for Black freedom.
• Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire
  The Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (France), founded in 1958, is one of the major international research centers devoted to the analysis of political change in sub-Saharan Africa. As a research unit (Unite Mixte de Recherche) of France's CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and of the IEP (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) at Bordeaux IV-Montesquieu University, it is also affiliated with the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

Arts

• The African Music Pages
This site include resources on African music, languages, art. Featuring Midi, Real Audio, Band Arrangements, Transcriptions, Books, CDs and Web Sites.

Country-Specific

Madagascar:

• Explore Madagascar!
Resources on Madagascar's: location, history, languages, cuisine, and wildlife.

Health

• Tools for Life
  Tools for Life is a versatile health communication kit designed for front line community health workers in Anglophone and Francophone Africa. Tools for Life covers the topics of safe motherhood, nutrition and infant health, diarrhea, prevention of common illnesses and diseases, and family planning and reproductive health.
• Malaria Diagnosis Prophylaxis Treatment
This web site is presented by the Division of Laboratory Services at Royal Perth Hospital. It is provided for the information of Medical Practitioners and Laboratory Scientists.

Languages

• Bemba: A Linguistic Profile
  Bemba is a language spoken by 5 to 6 million people in Zambia, and in bordering areas of Tanzania and Congo (DRC). Bemba is one of the eight official languages of Zambia. It is the language of the Bemba people (population est. 1.7 million) and a major lingua franca across Zambia.

Orgaznizations

• Union of Democratic Forces, Mauritania
Union of Democratic Forces is a political opposition party that support issues of democracy, liberalism, human rights, freedom of expression in Mauritania.
• Florida Back To Africa Movement:1890-1920
Florida Back To Africa Movement site is a traveling exhibit and lecture series on the Black Relocation Movement led by African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915).
• Measuagoon Webpage
Measuagoon is a Liberian non-Governmental organization aims to assist local communities to improve their well being through self-sufficiency in agriculture, small scale enterprises and the provision of social infrastructure such as clean drinking water, schools and clinics.
• The Global Coalition for Africa (GCA)
The Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) is a North-South forum dedicated to forging policy consensus on development priorities among African governments, their northern partners, and non-governmental groups working in and on Africa.

News

• African Perspective on line - All Africa Newsweekly
African Perspective is an online All Africa newsweekly that brings news and analysis on political, economic, historic and cultural events from Africa and elsewhere in the world.

Trade

The Fana Fana Info Web has over 10,000 links to consumer and small business publications and resources from government agencies, non-profit organizations, and trade associations. It is organized into over 160, and 100 topics in the consumer and small business sections, respectively.

Universities

• Universit of Nouakchott
A website for the University of Nouakchott, Mauritania

Women

• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation - South Africa
The purpose of this online Gender Unit is to ensure that all the organisation's projects are gender-inclusive; and to conduct research aimed at developing and evaluating a range of interventions such as training, public education and policy advocacy to prevent violence against women.