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• Africa Focus
  A collection of digitized images and sounds of Africa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
• African Studies: The World Wide Web Virtual Library
  Links to African Studies resources by country, organization, and topic. This site is maintained by Columbia University.
• African Governments on the Web
  Links by country to more than 290 web sites produced by African political parties and official government institutions, including overseas embassies.
• Africa Resource
  Producing and disseminating materials on the various regions of Africa, this African “education web portal” encourages national, regional, continental and global debates on issues that are specifically pertinent to Africa.
• Africa South of the Sahara Internet Resources
• Africa Web Links
  A fairly comprehensive site from the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Links are organized by broad category, such as Health or Music and Film.
• An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
  A frequently-updated list of selected Internet resources on Africa.
• The Norweigan Institute Index on Africa (afrika.no)
  A comprehensive guide, with an extensive list of country specific sites for all 54 African countries, as well as various topical and news-related links.
• CIA World Factbook
  Contains facts and maps for every country in Africa, including basic demographics, economic information, and international agreements.
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
  The Country Studies/Area Handbook Program is an ongoing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army.
• University of Delaware Center for International Studies: Links & Resources for Africa

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• Africa: Organizations and Associations
  Links to the web sites of scholarly and development-oriented organizations. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
• African Studies Programs
  Annotated links to African Studies Programs. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
• African Studies Programs, Research Center, and Universities
  Search by institution name or geographic area for programs. Links to other reference tools for African Studies. Maintained by Columbia University.

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• World Bank Group: Middle East and North Africa
  "Works with countries to achieve a rapid, equitable and sustainable economic growth that will be the best guarantor of broad-based prosperity and poverty reduction in the years to come."

South Africa

• Action for South Africa (ACTSA)
  Working for peace, democracy and development across the region, ACTSA is the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
• African National Congress
  South Africa's National Liberation Movement.
• South Africa Mail & Guardian Online
  "First Internet-based news publication in Africa."
• Southern African Development Community

East Africa

• Common Market for Eastern and South Africa (Lusaka, Zambia)
  County profiles and links to business/economic information.
• East Africa Post
• Index Kenya Project
  Online database of Kenyan newspaper articles.

West Africa

• West Africa News

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History

• Internet African History Sourcebook
  An index of web sites organized by country or topic. While far from comprehensive on the subject, it does provide many leads to otherwise obscure information. Maintained by Fordham University.
• The Story of Africa
  A web adaptation of the BBC's Story of Africa radio program, the site includes text, pictures, and audio sequences from the broadcast. Spanning from pre-history until the present day, all 24 half-hour broadcasts will be made available as they become ready.

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• Abyz News Links - Africa
  Links to newspapers and other news sources from Africa, arranged by country and region. Within each listing, news sources list home city, language, media type, and media focus. The News Links section lists web based foreign language translators and font resources.
• Africa News Links
  Includes websites for online African newspapers and radio stations, arranged by region and then country. This site is compiled by Harvard University.
• AfricaOnline
  For news and information. For specific information, pick the specific region link at the top of the page.
• Allafrica.com
  Links to headlines in African regions or search by country name for more specific news.
• Channel Africa Online
  News from Africa via shortwave, satellite, and Internet radio.
• Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa
  A comprehensive, alphabetical list of online journals and newspapers. There is no access by country except by browsing the alphabetical list. Each entry includes useful information about the dates that are available online and the frequency of publication. Compiled by Columbia University.
• News & Media of Africa
  Part of the World Press Index at EscapeArtist.com. News by country. Click on the News & Media of Africa Index to get to the link for page two: Nimibia thru Zimbabwe.

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• Africa: Population Studies
  A short list of web pages which lead to basic demographic data about Africa. Compiled by the University of Pennsylvania.
• InfoNation
  “InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.”
• Statistical Agencies (International)
  A listing of URLs for the official statistical agencies of foreign governments. Many, but not all, African states are listed here. The quality of the data varies between different countries, and, for some, there is no English-language version. Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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•  Advocacy Network for Africa Forum (ADNA Forum)
  A non-partisan network of 200 U.S.-based organizations whose initiatives address humanitarian, governmental, environmental, and social issues.
• Africa Action
  Formerly Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) (Washington, DC): Africa Action -- incorporating the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and APIC.
• Africa Dream
  A project "Linking Africa's splendours in a continuous network of Afrikatourism routes from the Cape to Cairo."
• Africa Human Rights Resource Center
  A human rights library with many links, from the Univ. of Minnesota.
• African Diaspora Archeology Network and Newsletter (ADAN)
  A web portal and a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of the dispersed descendants of African peoples.
• Economic Commission for Africa
  Regional arm of the UN to support economic and social development of its member states.
• Newspapers & Periodicals of the African Diaspora
  Based at the University of Wisconsin, this project will identify titles and related materials to create a resource for understanding African migration over the last three centuries.

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• Amnesty International On-Line
• Human Rights Watch
• International Peace Academy (IPA)on Africa
• United Nations
• USAID in Africa
  The United States Agency for International Development.
• World Bank Group: Sub-Saharan Africa

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