African History: Websites

A tutorial from the University of California Berkeley Libraries on how to evaluate web pages. Includes a Web Page Evaluation Checklist.

A brief guide developed by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association designed to provide students, teachers and researchers with information to help them use and evaluate the quality of primary source materials that can be found on the web.

Compiled by Karen Fung for the Information and Communication Technology Group (ICTG), African Studies Association, USA, this guide can be browsed by country, by topic, or by keyword.

AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the Internet.The site features among other things databases covering Africana periodical literature, African Women, and women travelers, explorers, and missionaries to Africa.

The African E-Journals Project makes journals published in Africa and about Africa more available to scholars worldwide. Includes some full text and links to other resources.

This is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the direction of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries.

Gives a year-by-year presentation of selected themes in the history of Africa between 1879 and 2002 including territory names, changing boundaries, imperial rulers and political systems, volent conflicts, and economic and demographic trends.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use.

Multi-media presentation based on the special produced by the BBC.

Significant primary materials from Africa from 8000 BC to the present.