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Resources on Africa for Younger Audiences (K-12)
African Studies Centers Websites
African News and Newspapers
Miscellaneous Africa Resources

Resources on Africa for Younger Audiences

Africa Access Review of K-12 Materials
http://www.inform.umd.edu/mdk-12/homepers/africa
This guide to children's materials on Africa contains reviews written by university professors, librarians, and teachers, most of whom have lived in Africa and have graduate degrees in the study of Africa. Africa Access includes hints on how to enrich teaching through the use of certain books, as well as detailed and thorough reviews with recommendations. This is an excellent source for anyone interested in finding teaching materials and children's books on Africa.

Afrophile: Recommended Titles on Africa for Children and Young People
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Proceedings_Rev/men_afrophle.html
This annotated bibliography lists over 500 titles of resources on Africa which are geared specifically for audiences from the elementary/primary level to high school. Only those materials receiving favorable recommendations from scholars on Africa are chosen for inclusion in Afrophile. Afrophile is a very useful source for educators and parents interested in obtaining good materials about Africa for children and young adults.

African Studies Centers Websites

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Central Connecticut State University African Studies

Michigan State University African Studies Center

National Consortium for Study in Africa (NCSA)

The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet)

Northwestern University African Studies Proram

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center

University of Wisconsin - Madison Arican Studies Program

Boston University, African Studies Center
Contact Person: Barbara Brown <bbbrown@bu.edu>
617/353-7308
http://www.bu.edu/AFR

Indiana University, African Studies Program
Contact Person: Outreach Coordinator
812/855-6825
http://www.indiana.edu~afrist

Michigan State University, African Studies Center
Contact Person: John Metzler <metzler@msu.edu>
517/353-1700
http://isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies

Ohio Unviersity, African Studies Program
Contact Person: Polly Sandenburgh <sandenbu@ohio.edu>
740/593-1842
http://www.ohiou.edu/~african/main.htm

Standford University, Center for African Studies
Contact Person: Christine Capper <ccapper@leland.stanford.edu>
650/723-0295
http://www.Stanford.edu/dept/AFR

Unviversity of California-Berkeley, Center for African Studies
Contact Person: Michele Delattre <orias@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
510/643-0868 http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias or Martha Saavedra, Center for African Studies,
http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa

University of California, Los Angeles, James Coleman African Studies Center
Contact Person: Azeb Lemma <alemma@isop.ucla.edu>
310/825-3686
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/jscasc

University of Florida, Center for African Studies
Contact Person: Agnes Ngoma Leslie <aleslie@africa.ufl.edu>
352/392-2187
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/africa

University of Illinois, Center for African Studies
Contact Person: Romanus Ejiaga <rejiaga@uiuc.edu>
217/244-5457
http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu

University of Kansas, African Studies Resource Center
Contact Person: Lyne Tumlinson <lyne@ukans.edu>
785-864-4237
http://www.ukans.edu/~asrc/

University of Pennsylvania, African Studies Consortium
Contact Person: Ali Ali-Dinar <aadinar@sas.upenn.edu>
215/898-6610
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html

University of Wisconsin-Madison, African Studies Program
Contact Person: Eileen McNamara <emcnamar@facstaff/wisc.edu>
608-262-4461
http://polyglot.iss.wisc.edu/afrst/asphome.html

Yale University, Council on African Studies
Contact Person: Maxwell Amoh <maxwell.amoh@yale.edu>
203/432-3438
http://yale.edu/ycias/african/

African News and Newspapers

Addis Tribune (Ethiopia) Homepage

Africa Confidential

Flying Inkpot's Inkternational News Links This site links to international news sites, organized by region, as well as to major international newspapers.

News Resource This site lists the names of African countries about which you can obtain news; there are also links to other news sites, newspapers, newsletters and information services.

PanAfrican News Agency

WEB-BASED AFRICAN NEWS-SERVICES:

Africa News Now: http://www.africanewsnow.com/

All Africa News Service: http://allafrica.com/

Africa On Line: http://www.africaonline.com

News Africa: http://www.newsafrica.com

One World Africa: http://www.africapolicy.org/index.shtml

African Action: http://www.africapolicy.org/index.shtml

IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Network-Africa): http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN/index.phtml

BBC Africa Service: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/default.stm

World Press Review/Africa:
http://www.worldpress.org/africa.shtm

AFRICAN NEWSPAPERS ON LINE:

AJR Links to African Newspapers:

http://ajr.newslink.org/nonusf.html

Ecola Links to African Newspapers:

http://www.ecola.com/news/press/af/

U.S. AND EUROPEAN NEWSPAPERS WITH RELATIVELY GOOD AFRICAN COVERAGE

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/

Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Gaurdian (London): http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/

Observer (London): http://www.observer.co.uk/

Le Monde (Paris): http://www.lemonde.fr/

Miscellaneous Africa Resources

The Kennedy Center African Odyssey Interactive The purpose of African Odyssey Interactive (AOI) is to promote an ongoing exchange of ideas, information, and resources between artists, teachers, and students of African arts and culture.

The National Summit on AfricaThe National Summit on Africa is a two-year initiative aimed at improving levels of public understanding about Africa and U.S.-Africa relations; creating an expanded and broad-based network of support for Africa; enabling a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals to develop a shared Plan of Action for U.S. relations with the countries of Africa.

ReliefWeb Serving the information needs of the Humanitarian Relief Community

The World Bank Group