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.
Table of Contents(non-clickable)
A. Indigenous African Science and Technology
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)
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.
Rewarding Traditional Knowledge/Benefit Sharing (Anil Gupta)
18. San/Pfizer Benefit
Sharing Agreement on Dietary Drug, South Africa <
A1
3.African Metallurgy in
the Caribbean
4.African Ironmaking Culture
among African American Ironworkers
Indigenous African Science and Technology
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the African Diaspora
1.African Rice
Technologies in the Carolinas,USA
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)
c. National Research
Foundation/ Indigenous Knowledge Systems ( South Africa)
d. Indigenous
Knowledge Worldwide (NUFFIC, Netherlands)
e.Interview of
South African Opsile Npsoane on IKS(IK Worldwide, NUFFIC)
Nina Berman, Impossible Missions? German Economic,
Military and Humaniarian Efforts in Africa, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln,
Nebraska,2004
Jean- Bertrand Aristide, Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path
for the Poor in the Age of Globalization,Common Courage Press
Toyin Falola, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt:An African
Memoir,University of Michigan Press, 2004
Joseph Inikori, Africans and the Industrial
Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Patrick Bond, Against Global Apartheid,
University of Cape Town Press, 2002
Toyin Falola and Steven Salm, Nigerian Cities, Africa
World Press,2003
Sean Jacobs and Richard Calland, Thabo Mbeki's World: The
Politics and Ideology of the South African President, Zed Books,2003
Edwin Black, War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America's
Campaign to Create a Master Race, New York:Four Walls Eight Windows,2003
C1.
a.Leonard Horowitz, Emerging Viruses, AIDS And Ebola: Nature, Accident OR
Intentional? Tetrahedron, Idaho, 2000. Publisher Contact:298-265-2775 (Fax)
b.Edward Hooper/ Bill Hamilton,THE RIVER- A Journey To The Source OF HIV AND
AIDS 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.
c. See the
archives of CCSU's"Africa Update" for three issues on the AIDS pandemic in
Africa.
d. 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
f. In November 2002, Nigerian scientist Professor Emitan Abisogun Bababunmi,
Professor of Biochemistry
D.
a.History of
Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA)
c.
African-Americans in the Sciences
d. Lewis Latimer,
the African American Inventor and Associate of Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
e.Mark Dean, Computer Scientist
E.
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
F.
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
North Africa
West Africa /Central Africa
l. West
Africa:Ancient Mali ( Rotondo-McCord)
q. West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast
(Abidjan Net)
r. Southern Africa: South Africa (ANC)
s.Angola
t.Safundi, The Journal of South African
Comparative Studies
u.Zimbabwe
vSouth African Apartheid,
Reparations and Human Rights (Africa Update. Fall Issue. 2002)
G.
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)
H.
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
I.
a. African
Literature of French Expression
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.Films
and Videos on Africa (Caruso,Columbia Univ)
j.The IMF, AFRICA and ASIA
-Structural Adjustment (Gloria Emeagwali)
J.
a.FESPACO:African Film
Festival(Official)
b.Films
and Videos on Africa (Caruso,Columbia Univ)
d.African Cinema: Interview
with Souleymane Cisse
K.
a. Afrocentric Voices in Classical
Music
b. Black History
Month: Black Firsts
c. The Griot
i. Vibe
j. Ebony
n. Mosaic Books
o. The Global African
Presence
q. Black Voices
r. Mypheduh
Films(African/African-American)
s. California
Newsreel(African/African-American)
v.
Polio Vaccines and the Origins of AIDS in Africa
w. AfroAmerica
x.
Afronet
z. Black Stocks
L.
a.Bayero University, Kano,
Nigeria
b.National
Association of Nigerian Students
d.Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
e.Dar Es Salaam University, Tanzania
h.Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
i.Zimbabwe University,Zimbabwe
j.Botswana University,Botswana
m.University of Cape Town, South Africa
n.Medical University of South Africa
M.
b. Historians on CD (Dr. Ben etc)
e.
C.
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
AIDS/HEALTH - RELATED READINGS
For an illuminating insight into Bio- Terrorism in Apartheid South Africa, see:
g. The Pharmaceutical Company MERCK fails to keep its promise to reduce the
price of its AIDS drug Stocrin, according to 'Pambazuka.org.' PAMBAZUKA NEWS
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
SOME AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
Africa Related Publisher/Multimedia Resources