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Africa: History, Culture, Economy, Politics

:: Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber, Klaas van Walraben (Eds.): Africa Yearbook 2004. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2005.

Anderson, John D.: East Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. London: Heinemann 1972

Ansprenger, Franz: Geschichte Afrikas. München 2002.

Bernal, Martin: Black Athena. The Afro-Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Bd. I, New Brunswick 1987.

Binsbergen, W.M.J. van: Black Athena: Ten Years After. Talanta 1997.

Binsbergen, W.M.J. van: Global Bee Flight: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ancient Egypt, and the World - Beyond the Black Athena thesis. Hamburg - Münster LIT 2004.

Binsbergen, W.M.J. van / Dijk, R.A. van (eds.): Situating Globality. African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture. African Dynamics. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2004.

Büttner, Thea: Geschichte Afrikas. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1976, 2 Bde.

Davidson, Basil: The Growth of African Civilisation. East and Central Africa in the late Nineteenth Century. Longman 1974.

Diop, Cheikh Anta: The African Origin of Civilization. Myth or Reality. Westport: Lawrence Hill 1974 (orig. Nations nègres et culture, Paris 1955).

Fanon, Frantz: The Wretched of the Earth. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Penguin Book 1963.

Hofmeier, R / Mehler, A. Hrsg.: Kleines Afrika-Lexikon, München 2004.

Imfeld, Al: Verlernen, was mich stumm macht. Lesebuch zur afrikanischen Kultur. Zürich: Unionsverlag 1980

Mabe, Jacob E. Hrsg.: Das Afrika-Lexikon. Ein Kontinent in 1.000 Stichwörtern. Metzler 2004.

Mbiti, John S.: African religions and philosophy. London: Heinemann 1975 (dt. Afrikanische Religion und Weltanschauung, 1974)

Nkrumah, Kwame: Consciencism. Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation. London: panaf 1974.

Rodney, Walter: Afrika. Die Geschiche einer Unterentwicklung. Berlin: Verl. Wagenbach 1975

Serageldin, Ismaïl / Taboroff, June (eds.): Culture and Development in Africa. Washington D.C.: The World Bank 1994.

Sundermeier, T.: Nur gemeinsam können wir leben. Das Menschenbild schwarzafrikanischer Religionen. 1997 (3. Aufl.)

:: African Culture
:: BBC World Service: The Story of Africa
:: Cybergeography
:: SANGONeT

:: Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford University)
:: Africa Economies
:: Economy of Africa (Wikipedia)
:: Google Directory

ICT in Africa

Brown, Cheryl & and Hurst, Gabrielle (Eds). 2007. A Good Place to Start: the IDS Knowledge Services guide to finding development information online. For more information and a PDF version of the book: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/info/sliGoodGuide.html.

Greis, Andreas: Cybergeography. Zur Morphologie des Digital Divide. In: Rupert M. Scheule, Rafael Capurro, Thomas Hausmanninger Hrsg.: Vernetzt gespalten. Der Digital Divide in ethischer Perspektive. München: Fink 2004, Schriftenreihe des ICIE 2004, 37-50.

Tadadjeu, Maurice / Tamanji, Pius: Information Technology and Cultural Exchange. In: Gérard Berthoud, Albert Kündig, Beat Sitter-Liver (Hg.): Informationsgesellschaft. Geschichte und Wirklichkeit. Société de l' information. Récits et réalité. Fribourg: Academic Press (2005), S. 53-63.

ICT in Africa:
:: ICTs for rural development, http://www.ict4rd.net.in/
:: Open Access Arrangements for Developing Countries, http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=46354&email_access=on
:: The African Digital Commons - a participant's guide, 2005, http://www.commons-sense.org/papers/digitalcommonsguide_eng.doc
:: Africa South of the Sahara: Internet and Computing (Stanford) (-> Statistics)
:: African Services Committee
:: AISI: The African Digital Divide Agenda (-> Scan-ICT)
:: APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor
:: Bridges.org
:: Connectivity Africa (Canada)
:: ECA (UN Economic Commission for Africa)
:: ICT 4 Development in Africa (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA), Interdisciplinary Research Workshop (October 2005)
:: NGO.ZA: a joint venture between SANGONeT (Southern Africa NGO network) and ICOZA, South Africa's first independently empowered Tier 1 Internet service provider (ISP).
:: SANGONeT

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

-> African Regional Preparatory Conference for the WSIS (2005) (pdf)
-> Evaluation of the Implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action and Information Society Indicators. The African Regional Preparatory Conference for the WSIS)

ICT Projects in Africa:

UbuntoLinux.org

General Information:

:: http://www.elearning-africa.com/fra/index.php provides interesting information about e-learning in Africa.
:: The PANOS Institute provides high quality information on communication issues in Africa. They also run a blog with many interesting articles.
:: ICANN
:: ITU: Statistics (-> World Telecommunications Indicators Database)
:: Nua Internet Surveys
:: Open Source
:: UNCTAD: StDev
:: UN ICT Task Force
:: UNESCO: Institute of Statistics
:: UNESCO: Information and Communication Report (1999-2000)
:: World Bank: Statistics
:: Zooknic Internet Intelligence (World Domains)

African Universities and Institutions
(under construction)

African School of Open Education (ASOE)
Uganda Martyrs University: Institute of Ethics and Development Studies
University of Pretoria: Department of Information Science

:: Progressive African Library & Information Activists Group

This project is run under the auspices of

the University of Pretoria,
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, and
the International Center for Information Ethics,

under the patronage of UNESCO.

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