Links

General Resources

• CIA World Factbook (select country from pulldown menu)
• Columbia University African Studies links
• Stanford University Africa links
• University of  Pennsylvania African Studies links
• Wesleyan African Studies Cluster

Maps

• Exploring Africa (Michigan State U.)
  • History of Africa During the Time of the Great West African Kingdoms
  • Colonial exploration and conquest
• Murdoch: Tribal map of Africa (1959)
• The Gold Road Project (Howard University)
• Interactive blank map
• Sporcle: Africa map quiz 1; quiz 2
• Google map of Africa
• nationsonline.org map of Africa; language map
• Heilbrun timeline of African art history (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Bantu expansion
  • from Janzen’s Ngoma
  • newworldencyclopedia
  • Genetic study maps the migration
• AfricaMap at Harvard
• Stanford links to maps
• Colonial map, early 20th century
• Rivers
• Earth Atlas

General African Music Resources

• SEM African Music Section
• Voice of America
  • Voice of America African Music Treasures
  • VOA archives digitized
  • Matt LaVoie’s blog
• British Library online sound archives
• Afropop Worldwide
• okayafrica.com
• Weekend Music Break 52 (africaisacountry.com,
• World Music Grammy winners
• Ross Archive of African Images, Yale University (extensive historical drawings)
• Gateway of Africa
• African music videos (the-real-africa.com)
• Sekamoke Foundation; youtube channel
• Art and Life Project (U. of Iowa), includes ethnographic videos
• African Music Home Page
• Awesome Tapes from Africa
• Frank Bessem’s Musique d’Afrique

Media

• channelafrica (internet radio)
• MTV Base (African MTV)
• Channel O

Journals

• African Music Journal
• South African Music Studies
• South African Journal of Musicology
• Journal of African Cultural Studies (Wesleyan subscription access)
• africanmusicology.org
• Special Rhythm: Africa and Beyond issue of Music Theory online

Archives

• International Library of African Music
• British Library Sound Archives

Museums

• Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum (Africa section)
• Virtual Museum of Canada (Francophonie section)

Miscellaneous

• “Intra-African Streams of Influence,” Gerhard Kubik (in Garland Encyclopedia of African Music, 1997)–Wesleyan access only
• “Michael Jackson in Africa” (okayafrica.com, Aug. 2013)
• Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan
• Internet African History Sourcebook
• africabib (bibliographic database)
• Nothing But Nets
• FGM
  • WHO factsheet on FGM
  • Amnesty International END FGM
  • Tostan’s success in Senegal
    • technorati.com
    • article by UNFPA
    • NY Times article (2011)

Organizations, Artwork, etc.

• African Studies Association Home Page
• Humanities Online, African Arts Home Page
• H-Afr-Teach: info on teaching about Africa
• African Art Exhibit at UVA
• Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire: Yoruba and Akan Art in Wood
  and Metal
• Art and Life in Africa Project
• Tanzanian Art
• Kennedy Center African Odyssey Interactive

Islam

• Islam Project Maps
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook

Semester Abroad/Cultural Study Tours-Camps

• Mamady Keita
  • Jembe tour in Senegal
  • Matoto (Guinea), 2012
• Burkina Faso
  • Balafon workshop with Gert Kilian
• The Gambia
  • Drum and Dance (pdf)
• Ghana
  • SIT semester abroad
  • University of Alberta Summer Semester
• Guinea
  • Antioch College semester abroad (formerly in Mali)
  • DrumConnection
  • with Bongo Sidibe (Duniya Drum and Dance Co.)
• Mali
  • Yeredon Center for Malian Arts
• Senegal
  • SIT semester abroad (formerly Mali)

Listening Links

• “Hindewhu“