(An exceptionally useful site- with interviews of some of Africa's leading film producers and writers.)
from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts from scholarly works
on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to say that this site has been listed by the
United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the
top 50 of African websites.
NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, NIGERIA
OCTOBER 2006, NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI, NIGERIA.
A. Indigenous African Science and Technology
B. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the African Diaspora
C. Relevant Indigenous Knowledge Organizations
D. Africa-Related Outstanding Books
E. AIDS/Health Related Readings
F. African and African-American Scientists and Inventors
G. Africana Journals and Newspapers
H.African Regional Sites
I.General and Archival Sources Related to Africa
J.Africa Related Institutions
K. Specialized Aspects of African Studies
L. African Cinema
M. Black Scholarly and Popular Sites
N. African Universities
O. Publishers/Multi Media Resources
P. Africa Radio and Television Programs
A.
1. History of Africa
(Gloria Emeagwali)
2.African Food Processing
Techniques (Richard Okagbue)
3. African Textile Techniques
(Phillip Shea)
4. African Metallurgy
(Olayemi Akinwumi)
5.Colonialism and
Africa's Technology (Gloria Emeagwali)
6. Mathematics in
pre-colonial Hausaland, West Africa (Ahmad Kani)
7. Psychology: African
Dimensions (Bruce Bynum)
8. Ancient Egyptian
Astronomy(Theophile Obenga)
9. Eurocentrism and
the History of Science (Gloria Emeagwali)
10. African
Fractals-Modern Computing and Indigenous Design(Ron Eglash)
Video
presentation: Courtesy Ron Eglash & www.TED.com
11. Geometry from
Africa(Paulus Gerdes)
12. African Investigations
into Space and Time ( Astronomy) (Charles Finch)
14.Ancient Egyptian
Mathematics (Beatrice Lumpkin)
15. Constraints on Africa's
Growth:The IMF and AFRICA -Structural Adjustment (Gloria Emeagwali)
16.African Indigenous
Knowledge Systems/Curriculum (Gloria Emeagwali)
17. San/Pfizer Benefit
Sharing Agreement on Dietary Drug, South Africa B
3.African Metallurgy in
the Caribbean
4.African Ironmaking Culture
among African American Ironworkers
RELEVANT INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATIONS
a. SRISTI- An Organization Concerned With
Third World Indigenous Knowledge( Gupta - India)
b. LOKA, An Organization
Concerned with Community- Based Research (Sclove - US).
E.
Leonard Horowitz, Emerging Viruses, AIDS And Ebola: Nature, Accident OR
Intentional?
Tetrahedron, Idaho, 2000. Publisher Contact:298-265-2775 (Fax)
Edward Hooper/ Bill Hamilton,THE RIVER- A Journey To The Source OF HIV AND
AIDS Indigenous African Science and Technology
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the African Diaspora
1.African Rice
Technologies in the Carolinas,USA
C.
D.
NEW PUBLICATIONS/OUTSTANDING BOOKS
AIDS/HEALTH - RELATED READINGS
An Illuminating and scholarly text on polio vaccines, designer viruses and the AIDS Holocaust.
Note that the IMF continues to insist on the removal of subsidies on health
in African countries with callous disregard for the unfolding AIDS pandemic.
Water privatization may be good business for International Water Limited (IWL), a subsidiary of BECHTEL
but may be a death sentence for the sick and ailing.
See the
archives of CCSU's"Africa Update" for three issues on the AIDS pandemic in
Africa.
Chandre Gould and Peter Folb The South African Chemical and
Biological Warfare Program: An Overview,
The Nonproliferation Review. Fall-Winter 2000.
Web site address- http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol07/73/73gould.pdf
In the Public Hearings of South Africa's " Truth and
Reconciliation Commission" 1996-1999,
some AIDS- related confessions were made by former supporters of the
apartheid regime.
Scholars are reflecting on the full implications of these confessions for
understanding
the AIDS pandemic in South Africa and the former frontline states. On Contaminated Polio and Meningitis Vaccines, note the
following:
Dr Haruna Kaita of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ahmadu Bello
University,
Nigeria commented on the contaminants identified in the WHO sponsored Oral
Polio Vaccines of February 2004
in the Weekly Trust, Kaduna, Nigeria.
For an interview of Dr. Tijjani Namiye, the Advisor to the Governor of Kano
State, Nigeria, on this incident,see Africa Update vol. 1.4.2004
Pfizer to pay £50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment
Out of court settlement in the case that inspired 'The Constant Gardener'
By Daniel Howden, Africa Correspondent
Monday, 6 April 2009, The Independent [UK]
........... In 1996, the company needed a human trial for what it hoped would be a pharmaceutical "blockbuster", a broad spectrum antibiotic that could be taken in tablet form. The US-based company sent a team of its doctors into the Nigerian slum city of Kano in the midst of an appaling meningitis epidemic to perform what it calls a "humanitarian mission". However the accusers claim it was an unlicensed medical trial on critically-ill children.
A team of Pfizer doctors reached the Nigerian camp just as the outbreak, which killed at least 11,000 people, was peaking. They set themselves up within metres of a medical station run by the aid group Médecins Sans Frontières, which was dispensing proven treatments to ease the epidemic.
From the crowd that had gathered at the Kano Infectious Diseases Hospital, 200 sick children were picked. Half were given doses of the experimental Pfizer drug called Trovan and the others were treated with a proven antibiotic from a rival company.
Eleven of the children died and many more, it is alleged, later suffered serious side-effects ranging from organ failure to brain damage. But with meningitis, cholera and measles still raging and crowds still queueing at the fence of the camp, the Pfizer team packed up after two weeks and left.
That would probably have been an end to the story if it weren't for Pfizer employee, Juan Walterspiel. About 18 months after the medical trial he wrote a letter to the then chief executive of the company, William Steere, saying that the trial had "violated ethical rules". Mr Walterspiel was fired a day later for reasons "unrelated" to the letter, insists Pfizer.........
"The strategy of big companies when they are dealing with smaller opponents is to stretch the process, to overwhelm us until we are ready to accept whatever they want to offer." Trovan never became the blockbuster that Pfizer had hoped for and it is no longer in production. The EU has banned the drug and it has been withdrawn from sale in the US.......
It appears that Pfizer has finally ended the public relations nightmare with Friday's settlement. I'm glad we remained the constant gardener and could see this come to fruition........."
In November 2002, Nigerian scientist Professor Emitan Abisogun Bababunmi,
Professor of Biochemistry His drug arrests skeletal muscle degeneration and 'slim disease'at a
relatively cheap cost. (Pan African News Agency)
F.
a.History of
Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA)
e. Lewis Latimer,
the African American Inventor and Associate of Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
f.Mark Dean, Computer Scientist
'............Mark Dean is an African-American electrical engineer and computer scientist who holds more than 20 US patents, including three of IBM's original nine personal computer patents. One of the technical and innovative driving forces behind the personal computer, Dean was recently inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, one of only a handful of African- Americans who have been selected for that honor.Today's desktop computers exist in part because of Dean's research. One of his earliest inventions was the Industry Standard Architecture 'bus,' a user interface that permitted devices such as the keyboard, disk drives, and printers to be connected to the motherboard. He developed a method for displaying color on monitors, helped design several PS/2 subsystems, and tested the first gigahertz CMOS microprocessor. Dean was also instrumental in developing the unique cellular structure of IBM's signature Blue Gene supercomputer. '
Extract from ScienceDaily.com. July 1,2007.
h.The
Inventive Spirit of African Americans (Patricia Carter Sluby)
G.
b. West Africa Review:The Wonders
of the African World Debate etc
c.
Comprehensive Links to Africa- related Electronic Journals and Newsletters-
Columbia University
d.Integrated Regional
Information Networks
h. Radio France Internationale
l.JENDA: Journal of Culture and
African Women Studies
m.Africa Intelligence (France)
p. West Africa Review (Binghamton
University)
q.Africa Studies Quarterly
(University of Florida)
r. Africa Update(Central
Connecticut State University)
s.History
Journals Guide -African Journals etc
H.
a. Libyan
Resistance to Italian Occupation
b.Northeast Africa:
Somali Web Sites (Jama)
c.
Queen Hatshepsut's Expedition to the Land of Punt,Somalia(Sayed El-Sayed)
d. Ancient Egypt (Tour
Egypt.net/village)
e.
Various sites on Ancient Egypt (Columbia University- Caruso)
h. Ancient
Nubia/Sudanese Archeology
j. ARKAMANI-Sudan Journal of Archaeology
and Anthropology
West Africa /Central Africa
m.
Gambia
q. West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast
(Abidjan Net)
r.IOWA's AFRICAN ART and LIFE
PROJECT(Christopher Roy)
s. Southern Africa: South Africa (ANC)
t.Safundi, The Journal of South African
Comparative Studies
u.South African Apartheid,
Reparations and Human Rights (Africa Update. Fall Issue. 2002)
I.
a.Brown's World History
Archives ( Africa Related) See his excellent resource on Haiti.
b. Internet
African History Sourcebook (Peter Halsall - Fordham)
c. African Primary Sources
(Green/Tschabrun- Calif State Univ)
d.Explaining
Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade(Gloria Emeagwali/West Africa Review)
e.
Cora Agatucci's Links on African Music/Film ( Central Oregon)
J.
a.Namibia Resource Centre and Southern
Africa Library
b. African
Studies - Stanford University (Karen Fung)
c. US Foreign Policy
and Africa (APIC)
e. African Studies Association
(ASA)
f. Racism and the Black World
Response Symposium Website
g.Linguistics Association of SADC
African Countries
i.International
Directory of African Studies Scholars (Columbia)
j. Congress of African Historians
(Mali)
k.Council for the Development of Social
Science Research in Africa
K.
a. African
Literature of French Expression
c. Sudanic Africa
e. Assoc. of
African Women Scholars (Nnaemeka)
f.African Women's Rights
(APIC)
g.Interview of Dr. Molara
Ogundipe- A Leading Nigerian Feminist Theorist
h. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. 'The Significance of Johnson-Sirleaf's Victory.' JENDA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies: Issue 9, 2006.
www.jendajournal.com
i. Women Leaders of Africa
www.jendajournal,com. Issue 9, 2006
L.
a. INDIGOKAFE: The Portal for African Literature,Writers and Film An exceptionally useful site, with interviews of some of Africa's leading film producers and writers. b.Films
and Videos on Africa (Caruso,Columbia Univ)
c.Zanzibar International Film Festival d.African Film Festival (ARTMATTAN Production, New York)
e.Durban International Film Festival
f.FESPACO African Film Festival
g.The Nigerian Film Industry(Africa Update. vol. x1.2.2004)
h.African Cinema:Gloria Emeagwali Interviews
Souleymane Cisse (Harvard University)
j.Nollywood Videos (Commercial Site)
k.Samba Gadjigo: "Ousmane Sembene: The Life of a Revolutionary Artist (California Newsreel) l.African Film Festival ( New York)
M.
a. Afrocentric Voices in Classical
Music
b. Black History
Month: Black Firsts
i. Vibe
j. Ebony
n. Mosaic Books
o. The Global African
Presence
q. Black Voices
r. ALPHA BLONDY(Seydou Kone, Cote d'Ivoire)-
One of Africa's leading reggae exponents of over 30 years s.Bob Marley, THE KING
s. California
Newsreel(African/African-American)
v.
Polio Vaccines and the Origins of AIDS in Africa
w. AfroAmerica
x.
Afronet
y. Black Stocks
aaBlack Authors and Published Writers
Directory
For an illuminating insight into Bio- Terrorism in Apartheid South Africa, see:
African/African American Scientists/Inventors
Africana Journals and Newspapers
African Regional Sites
Northeast/East Africa
Southern Africa
General/Archival Sources Related to Africa
Africa Related Institutions/Organizations/Programs
Specialized Aspects of African Studies
African Cinema
Black Scholarly/Popular/Commercial Sites -in random
order
N.
a.Bayero University, Kano,
Nigeria
b.National
Association of Nigerian Students
c.Medical University of South Africa
d.Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
e.Dar Es Salaam University, Tanzania
g.University of Cape Town, South Africa
h.Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
i.Zimbabwe University,Zimbabwe
j.Botswana University,Botswana
O.
e.
SELECTED AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
Africa Related Publisher/Multimedia Resources